4 pasta salad japanese Recipes

dried soba (japanese buckwheat) noodles, dried asian wheat noodles, or angel hair pasta, sesame seeds, vegetable oil, soy sauce, rice vinegar, sugar, cayenne, red bell pepper (8 oz.), rinsed, stemmed, seeded, and cut into thin, short slivers, shredded carrots, sliced green onions, salt

somen noodles, boiled or 1 package other thin pasta, head napa cabbage, shredded (chinese cabbage), ham or 1 cup char siu pork, chopped, eggs, kamaboko, cut in thin strips (fish cake), stalks green onions, chopped, cucumber , cut in slivers (optional), carrot, shredded (optional), sesame seeds, sugar, salt, cooking oil, japanese rice wine vinegar, soy sauce

chicken broth, orzo pasta (about 1 cup), calamari , whole bodies and tentacles, shrimp, peeled and deveined, zucchini , sliced lengthwise, about 1-inch wide, japanese eggplant , sliced lengthwise, about 1-inch wide, roma tomatoes , halved lengthwise, cannellini beans, drained and rinsed, arugula (about 3 cups), chopped fresh basil leaves, chopped fresh flat-leaf parsley, lemons, juiced, extra-virgin olive oil, kosher salt, freshly ground black pepper