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"This is in response to a request. It is from "The Complete Asian Cookbook" by Charmaine Solomon. It does require that it marinates a while before serving. There is no real cook time involved."

Ingredients: cucumbers, fresh ginger, salt...

"This recipe comes from Japanese Cuisine for Everyone by Yukiko Moriyasma. It is something my mom used to make all the time and is my absolute favorite way to eat cucumbers."

Ingredients: light soy sauce, japanese cucumbers...

"Serve up with your favorite dipping sauce. If you like to spice things up, use cajun spice instead of gomashio. From How It All Vegan cookbook."

Ingredients: olive oil, gomashio, potatoes...

"This is a delicious cloudy broth like the kind served in Japanese restaurants, with diced tofu and seaweed. Adapted from the Everything Vegetrian Cookbook."

Ingredients: firm tofu, light miso...

"Have you ever tried the golden sesame tofu from Whole Foods? Yum. Here is a copycat recipe that may even be better. The secret here is the cornstarch, it gives the tofu its chewy coating, but you have to sprinkle it over the tofu evenly and with a light hand; otherwise it’ll get gloppy(using a wire mesh works well). You’ll find toasted..."

Ingredients: cornstarch, toasted sesame oil...

"Ginger is an important Asian food, prized for its many culinary, medicinal and health benefits. That fact, along with the love of anything pickled, naturally led to beni shoga or the red pickled ginger slivers served on many Japanese dishes from okonomiyaki to yaki soba. Not to be confused with gari, the pink pickled ginger served alongside sushi,..."

Ingredients: brine, fresh gingerroot...

"Chirashi is a bowl of sushi rice mixed or topped with ingredients. It is often eaten at home while nigiri sushi is mostly eaten at restaurants."

Ingredients: burdock root, fresh lotus root...

"From Alton Brown, Good Eats, Episode: Et Tu Mame. Delicious! I have tweaked it just a little bit. :) You can double the chile sauce to increase the heat if you wish. I used Thai sweet chili sauce but use the red chili paste or sambal oleck if you like."

Ingredients: fresh ground black pepper, extra virgin olive oil...

"Rich in iron, fibre, B vitamins, magnesium and omega-3 fatty acids"

Ingredients: nori, cucumbers, edamame...

"A traditional Japanese condiment courtesy of Underwood Family Farms."

Ingredients: red jalapeno chiles, fresh ginger...

"This is from "The Enlightened Kitchen: Fresh Vegetable Dishes from the Temples of Japan" by Mari Fujii. It comes from Kenchoji Temple, the first Zen buddhist temple in Japan. It is a wonderful example of shojin ryori, or "temple cuisine". The ingredients suggest this is a winter soup, although for health and nutrition, this soup..."

Ingredients: dried shiitake mushrooms, firm tofu...

"This stock adds greatly to miso soups and other soups. Adjust the balance of soy sauce with the sweetness of the sugar to your liking. Refrigerate, this will keep a week. Enjoy! Adapted from Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone by Deborah Madison."

Ingredients: dried shiitake mushrooms, dark sesame oil...

"Kouhaku namasu combines lightly preserved daikon radish and carrots for a delicious red and white dish that is a staple of New Year’s meals."

Ingredients: daikon radishes, rice vinegar...

"Yum! The original recipe used all wild rice. I have subbed some brown rice, or a blend of rices. Also the original recipe calls for barley miso, but you can use whatever miso you have on hand(I use either red or white), whichever one you use will give a different and yummy flavor. Enjoy! Adapted from a recipe from Whole Foods."

Ingredients: ginger, green onions, miso...