Author Archives: Julie Hashimoto-McCreery

About Julie Hashimoto-McCreery

28 year old food blogger and writer.

Day to Day Life: Week Fifty-One {5 1}

A quick look at the last week: While we haven’t had any new snow, everything around here has consistently been frozen and icy, still. My husband can attest to the ice, as he took a major fall this week, landing … Continue reading

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Purple Sweet Potato Pie

‘Tis the season to go blog MIA (apparently). Things have been crazy and busy – life, travel, crazy weather, the holidays… Every day appears to fade right into the next. We aren’t even going to talk about how Christmas is … Continue reading

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Day to Day Life: Week Fifty

How is this the 50th week of the year? And the start of winter break around here, coming up this Friday? Christmas next week? 2013, time has come and gone… Seems quicker every single year. We won’t approach my neurotic … Continue reading

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Gluten and Grain Free Banana Pancake(s) for One Lady (or Sir)

When it comes to being in the kitchen, I’ve admitted that I have issues with micromanaging anyone else who may want to help. I work better alone when it comes to cooking. Give me some music and an empty kitchen … Continue reading

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Day to Day Life: Week Forty-Nine

Here’s a look at the last week… We were not feeling Monday this week. Vegetarian chili with jalapeno cheese cornbread for the approaching cold weather… Leftover chili his and her style: straight leftovers for him, chili burrito for me. The … Continue reading

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Homemade Brown Sugar

When I am in the kitchen, my philosophy is simple: tread fearlessly. Make mistakes, try new flavors, don’t get too caught up in needing to follow recipes so intently you forget to have fun. Regardless, there are times my contained-crazy … Continue reading

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Baked Artichoke Squares

In the food world, I understand that Thanksgiving is a big deal. There are so many dishes to give your attention to, so much time to spend on preparing and planning. This year, however, Thanksgiving was a small ordeal for us. … Continue reading

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Day to Day Life: Week Forty-Eight

Shall we take a peek at the last week? Here it goes… Inside fern getting some outside sunshine. Homemade Mediterranean pizza. The best yet. This is how we cook around here, apparently. A Thanksgiving week pre-dinner – tempeh bacon filled … Continue reading

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November Foodie Pen Pals {Reveal Day}

  This month, I decided to join in with many other bloggers in an online foodie exchange. Foodie Pen Pals is a program that Lindsay Livingston, over at The Lean Green Bean, began in 2011. You don’t have to be … Continue reading

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Vegetarian Thai Chick’n Pizza

Tomorrow is Thanksgiving. I have the cranberry sauce done, pie crust ready to be baked, sweet potato pie filling ready to fill said crust… the artichoke squares are ready for the oven, along with some apple sage veggie sausage stuffing. … Continue reading

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