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Category Archives: Dinner
Creamy Three-Cheese Pasta with Roasted Tomatoes
My appetite has gone haywire over the last couple months. Not hungry, not hungry, not hungry, ravishingly hungry after a couple weeks, though only around 10 o’clock at night. Summer is nearly always like that for me: the warm days … Continue reading
Posted in Dinner, Lunch, Vegetarian
Tagged balsamic tomatoes, balsamic vinegar, basil, cherry tomatoes, creamy pasta, feta, fresh basil, goat cheese, pasta, roasted tomatoes
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Homemade Seitan Carnitas
It seems many cultures offer some form of pulled pork. In Hawaii where I grew up, there’s kalua pig: pork rubbed with sea salt, wrapped in ti leaves, traditionally cooked in an underground oven (imu), and then shredded, creating a … Continue reading
Posted in Appetizer, Dinner, Lunch, Sauces, Sides, Vegetarian
Tagged adobo sauce, carnitas, chipotle peppers, cumin, fresh herbs, herbs, Mexican food, pulled pork, pulled seitan, seitan, seitan carnitas, vegetarian carnitas, vegetarian mexican food, vegetarian pork, vital wheat gluten, wheat meat
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Sourdough Pizza Crust
There are times I am disappointed by my own cooking. I mean this in the humblest way, mind you. See, it’s hard to go out to dinner around here and spend less than $50, especially if you include drinks (and … Continue reading
Posted in Baking, Bread, Dinner, Kids, Life, Lunch, Vegan, Vegetarian
Tagged dinner, fresh mozzarella, homemade pizzas, pizza, pizza crust, pizza dough, sourdough, sourdough pizza crust, sourdough starter
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Sourdough Pretzel Dogs
When I was a little kid, the majority of my play time was spent hanging out with my little brothers and older sister. And by hanging out I mean beating the crap out of one another, then making up just … Continue reading
Posted in Appetizer, Baking, Bread, Dinner, Kids, Lunch, Vegetarian
Tagged Field Roast, finger food, hot dogs, kid food, Lightlife Smart Dogs, pigs in a blanket, pretzel dogs, soft pretzels, sourdough, sourdough soft pretzels
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Spicy Fish Tacos
My summer eating habits are pretty terrible. For one, I still need coffee every morning. I am not hungry for breakfast – ever. Most days, lunch completely eludes me. Then all of a sudden it’s dinner time. Hungry or not, … Continue reading
Posted in Dinner, Gluten-Free, Lunch, Seafood
Tagged avocado, cilantro, coriander, corn tortilla, cumin, fish taco, lime, pacific rockfish, paprika, red rockfish, snapper, taco
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Toasted Coconut, Cilantro and Lime Rice
Rice was a substantial part of any meal I had for at least half of my lifetime. Plain white, sticky, rice. Breakfast at times meant sticky rice, scrambled eggs, and Portuguese sausage. Lunch – nori (seaweed) wrapped spam musubis or … Continue reading
Posted in Appetizer, Dinner, Gluten-Free, Lunch, Sides, Vegan, Vegetarian
Tagged cilantro, coconut milk, ginger, lime, rice, toasted coconut, toasted rice
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Panko Crusted Tempura Shrimp
Despite growing up in a half-Japanese family and on an island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, seafood was nowhere on my list of favorite foods as a kid. Or even on the list of foods I would eat. … Continue reading
Posted in Appetizer, Dinner, Lunch, Sauces, Seafood, Sides
Tagged Asian, batter, battered, cocktail sauce, crusted, fried, ginger, Japanese breadcrumbs, panko, Panko-crusted, shrimp, tempura
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Roasted Asparagus and Broccoli Soup
I don’t have a lot of experience dealing with death. At least not when it comes to people. I have experienced a multitude of pet deaths… Growing up, we raised guinea pigs. 50 or so guinea pigs all at once. … Continue reading
Posted in Dinner, Gluten-Free, Life, Lunch, Vegetarian
Tagged asparagus, broccoli, chives, cream, garlic, herbs, leeks, lemon, meyer lemon, onion, potatoes, soup, walnut oil
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Cheddar Chive Polenta Waffles
A couple years ago, we got a waffle iron and I quickly became enamored with making various types of waffles: brown butter, buttermilk, whole wheat, plain, cinnamon apple, blueberry, overnight yeasted waffles. Then one day Silas came home and said … Continue reading
Posted in Bread, Dinner, Kids, Lunch, Vegetarian
Tagged cheese, chives, herbs, polenta, savory waffles, vegetarian chicken and waffles, waffles
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Basil Pesto and Caramelized Onion Tofu Patties
Sometimes when things like tofu or tempeh go on sale, I get a little impulsive and buy way too much of both, not thinking it’s too much of course… Rather, of course I’ll use six blocks of tofu and ten … Continue reading
Posted in Appetizer, Dinner, Gluten-Free, Lunch, Vegetarian
Tagged basil, bell peppers, carrots, egg, garlic, herbs, onion, oregano, tofu, tofu patties
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Julie Hashimoto-McCreery
