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"We have a Japanese girl, Tomoko, living with us, and tonight she and I cooked a Japanese dinner for us and her friends. She phoned her mum,Toshiko, in Japan for this, as it's her favourite recipe, and I wanted to share it here. It's simple and so good, and Tomoko, who is only 16, did such a good job of cooking this, then translating the recipe..."

Ingredients: garlic cloves, soy sauce...

"When I was a child, my family used to eat this at least once a week due to the fact that it is inexpensive and a little goes a long way. We also added fresh herbs or sometimes whole kernel corn. Its even better the next day and it freezes well."

Ingredients: pepper, elbow macaroni...

"This chicken noodle soup is great on a cool day."

Ingredients: egg noodles, cooked chicken...

"Raise the lowly cabbage to something extraordinary! This technique of sautéing brings out a wonderful sweetness you never knew existed in cabbage. You can add different spices to this recipe: curry, caraway seeds, or hot pepper sauce are just suggestions. But try it plain first! Adapted from The Low-Carb Cookbook by Fran McCullough"

Ingredients: salt and pepper, green cabbage...

"Another of my aunt's recipes. Great for those cold nights."

Ingredients: chives, condensed cream of chicken soup...

"If you love good, old-fashioned, down home chicken and dumplings, this is the real thing! Note that this dumpling recipe makes "a bunch of dumplin's" because around here, most folks want more dumplin's than chicken. (prep time includes cooling time for cooked chicken.)"

Ingredients: butter flavor shortening, eggs...

"You can eat as much of this 0-point Weight Watchers cabbage soup as you like. It's so good for you."

Ingredients: green beans, nonfat beef broth...

"Really healthy soup, good to use when there's no time to spend in the kitchen!"

Ingredients: cracked black pepper, fresh spinach...

"Great quick and healthy dinner."

Ingredients: cilantro, corn tortillas...

"This is so much nicer than plain steamed or boiled cabbage. Try it on the cabbage haters in your family and see if it converts them."

Ingredients: fresh ground black pepper, margarine...

"You can make this sauce easily at home. From Copykat.com (http://www.copykat.com)"

Ingredients: cumin, tomatoes and green chilies...

"Carrots coated with a yummy butter, brown sugar and ginger sauce. I grew up eating these in Texas but the added the added ginger they could fit into many categories for ZWT. Easy, quick and yummy!-- GREAT way to get kids to enjoy this veggie! If you like a lot of sauce double the sauce ingredients. I posted this less 'saucy' to keep the fat..."

Ingredients: margarine, ground ginger...

"Pan-roasting broccoli results in a carmelized flavor, a completely different taste using broccoli, salt, and pepper. Adapted from Cook's Illustrated."

Ingredients: pepper, salt, vegetable oil...

"I got this recipe from by grmil who was born and raised in Mexico City. The secret to its flavor is the cocoa"

Ingredients: cocoa powder, garlic salt...