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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...

"The potatoes are ready in our garden, and this is the first recipe I reach for! These are SO good!!"

Ingredients: garlic, milk, parmesan cheese...

"This is a clone of the Olive Garden Zuppa Toscana. Tried and true, approved by former Olive Garden chefs."

Ingredients: swiss chard, heavy whipping cream...

"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...

"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...

"This pizza sauce recipe was given to me as a wedding present, written on the inside cover of a pizza cookbook. It is thick, saucy, spicy and delicious. I'll never use anything else on my homemade pizzas. I like to double or triple it and put it in Ziploc bags in my freezer."

Ingredients: dried basil, dried oregano...

Ingredients: dried basil, eggs, escarole...

"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...

"These are wonderful and are almost too healthy to be true. Lots of calcium, protein, fiber, etc. I usually eat them without any topping and just keep popping them in my mouth! Yum. But a good jam will do them nicely as well."

Ingredients: cottage cheese, egg whites...

"This sauce can be used with beef or cheese enchiladas. The amount of "heat" in the sauce depends on the type and amount of chili powder you use."

Ingredients: cumin, red chili powder...

"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...