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Show f ; y-t6,Ao ai j til ti: f : 1 until they live in another country," said' Mr. Naruse. America is young - Japan is very old. We waste, where Japan has learned that it must utilize every inch of growing space and waste as little as possible. I think that lately, with most of us feeling feel-ing the PINCH, we may begin be-gin to see that old adage, "Waste not-want not" is still a pretty good idea. We thought you might enjoy an Oriental recipe this week. Here's one from Betty's "Far East Cookbook". Betty is one of those "pinch of this and pinch of that" cooks, but whether you are or not, this recipe will be fun to try and sure to please. FLANK , STEAK TERIYAKI 1-12 lbs. flank steak 1 C beef bouillion 1 t. seasoned salt 13 C chopped onion 18 t. garlic powder 1 t. salt 12 C soy sauce 2 T fresh lemon juice 2 T honey Cut steak into diagonal strips 1" wide. Mix rest of ingredients. Marinate steak in this mixture for 24 hours. Remove meat, drain, thread on skewers, cap with whole mushroom if desired. Broil 4-5 minutes, turning' once. If you think buying meat Is expensive, think of having to pay $25 a pound for a T -bone steak! That's what you'd have had to do if you'd been visiting visit-ing in Japan with Betty and Haruichi Naruse last year -and if you really WANTED steak! Though both had been born in California, Mr. Naruse had been educated in Japan and for, the past several years they had been wanting to make the trip. Finally, they did it - and Mr. Naruse was able to get together with some old friends, and enjoyed enjoy-ed showing Betty the sights. They were impressed with the large number of greenhouses green-houses throughout Japan. It was winter when they visited, visit-ed, but the gigantic greenhouses green-houses were producing fresh vegetables and fruits. Betty copied the plan and made herself a small one when she returned home. It worked. She had zuchinni squash before be-fore anyone around. The Naruse's have three married children; Judy, Dick and Don. They are looking forward to visiting their son and family who are stationed in Germany. "We've always been a close family," said Betty. "When I was raising 'my children I felt it my responsibility re-sponsibility to be with them, instead of out working or such. If for some reason children were not invited to an affair, we stayed home. Now we enjoy and MISS our children and grandchildren." grandchild-ren." They also had the honor of being named County Farm Family for 1970 for outstanding out-standing work and management manage-ment of the family farm. "We both love to see things grow,'? said Betty, and she enjoys working in the garden and fields alonside her husband. hus-band. She's his "right-hand man" now that the boys are grown. I mentioned that our seed catalogs were finally catching catch-ing up with us. "Oh, I've already al-ready sent my order in," laughed Betty. I mentioned that last year we'd planted the Japanese Azuki bean with good results'. Betty brought out some jelly made from the crushed bean. Very tasty! I'd never have thought it would make such a delicious deli-cious treat. , I tried to photograph Betty and some of the beautiful figures - the carved wooden bears a friend had given them, the lovely Japanese doll in her glass case, and the 100 -plus year old painting paint-ing done on rice paper, but my camera wouldn't flash -no matter what. Went home and Keith worked it over and. we went back for another try. That's when we met Mr. Naruse Nar-use and had a pleasant visit with him - but still the camera cam-era didn't cooperate. As we talked, we all agreed that times have changed - in farming as well as everything every-thing else. Got me to thinking think-ing about these "taken for granted" marvels that make farming possible (and expensive) ex-pensive) today. We decided, too, that we live in a very wasteful country. "People can't realize the difference |