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LOL, Frances - I would love having you here! I am glad you like the way I cook! My husband made a really lovely capellini the other night - flavoured with garlic, olives, oregano from our own front-yard, and fresh tomatoes - he too is a very good cook and that keeps our "eat-at-home even if we are over-worked otherwise" family happy and healthy.

Pepper, I think you will find many useful and usable recipes here: www.johnrussell.name/recipes/index-en.htm

I was brought up a vegetarian, in a wonderful, ancient and fabulous cooking tradition (Hindu and Indian). I am not a vegetarian any more, but almost 90 to 95% of my diet consists of grains, beans, lentils, vegetables and fruits.

By the way, has your daughter become a vegan (a diet where absolutely no product that has anything to do with animals may be used - for example: all dairy, honey, etc. are forbidden) or has she become an ovo-lacto-pesco vegetarian? It sounds like she is at least a peso-vegetarian since she is willing to eat sushi and fish. Does she eat eggs and milk products? It makes a huge difference in what to recommend for an adolescent young girl with all these different restrictions. One needs to make sure that all of us, especially in our adolescence, need to watch the nutritional content of what we eat. If she is eating eggs, dairy and fish, your job is much, much easier making sure she gets balanced nutrition!