Title: Yumeiro Cooking
Author: Kurita Riku
Publisher: Kodansha, 1990

This is a seven volume shoujo manga. Serika Goto is a sweet girl whose expertise is cooking. She often uses her delicious cooking to help her friends. An offer of good cooking can seal the love between a couple. Serika helps her friend so much that her own love life suffers as a result. But no matter! In each chapter Serika cooks up a new dish for us to admire. At the end of each book, there are recipes for the dishes covered in the story. It's presented by Semansa, a cute looking cat that is the mascot of this manga.

In every Kurita manga I have seen yet, the main character has to wear Kiki's dress in "Kiki Delivery Service" once in a side-bar panel. She must be a fan of Miyazaki. She also appears to be very fond of cooking. I wonder if these recipes really work?