Author Archives: Julie Hashimoto-McCreery

About Julie Hashimoto-McCreery

28 year old food blogger and writer.

Day to Day Life: Week Twenty-Five

Let’s have a look at the last week: I’m not going to tell you how many quesadillas I ate this week. They were plentiful. Sometimes filled with fresh corn, or jalapenos, or topped with avocado. All of them – A+ … Continue reading

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Smoked Salmon Salad with Lemon Basil Vinaigrette

Sometimes a girl eats too many doughnuts for her birthday. Then chases them down with extravagant fru-fru cocktails, copious amounts of amazing sushi, and inevitably, birthday cake to round it all out. Sometimes the next day, that girl says, “Damn. … Continue reading

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Vegetarian Meatloaf

I’m sure meatloaf gets a bad rap because, well, the term “meatloaf”  isn’t exactly sexy. What the term does do, however, is describe precisely what it is – ground meat shaped into a loaf (P.S. “loaf” is also unsexy sounding all on … Continue reading

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Day to Day Life: Week Twenty-Four

Here’s a small glimpse into the last week: Lots of blue skies! I turned 28 on Monday and requested doughnuts. Woo hoo! Birthday foxgloves hand-picked by my husband. Two pounds of  zucchini out of the garden! More coming daily! Craig’s … Continue reading

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Sweetly Spiced Yogurt Pudding

We just had a week filled with birthday celebrating. Silas has had three separate birthday celebrations – all of them including homemade treats and cooking. I made a vanilla cake with salted caramel meringue buttercream filling. The process of making … Continue reading

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Gluten Free Green Chile Sweet Corn Mac and Cheese

The last week has been a whirlwind. While I’ve got more than a few recipes ready to show up on this little blog, the last handful of days have been long and come 10:30 at night, the last thing I … Continue reading

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Day to Day Life: Week Twenty-Three

Let’s take a look at the last week. It looked a little like this: A pound of garden-grown radishes. Good for soup making, coming soon. Mr. Sunshine finished up second grade. Three months of summer to be had! Homemade tortillas … Continue reading

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Jamaican Jerk Seitan

It’s officially summer around here. While I enjoy long summer days, filled with sunshine at 5:30 AM well until after 8 PM, already that time is flying by.  I’m looking forward to meals that don’t involve heating my kitchen, or … Continue reading

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What About All That Whey? (Recipe: Cardamom Whey Refresher)

I posted a recipe yesterday for homemade yogurt. The thing about making homemade Greek yogurt is, you wind up with a lot of leftover whey. Yes, like Little Miss Muffet. Whey is the liquid by-product produced by strained yogurt. It’s … Continue reading

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Crock Pot Yogurt

I have a knack for pinning lots of recipes on Pinterest, then like many within the world, forget about those pins entirely. Sometimes that isn’t the case. A recipe will creep into my head and reside there until I follow … Continue reading

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