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Category Archives: Dinner
Creamy Jalapeño Mac & Cheese
Sometimes a girl reads about mac and cheese about thirty times in ten minutes, while browsing through her blogroll, then sees about ten other mac and cheese photographs over her instagram feed. Forty different mac and cheeses, mind you. The … Continue reading
Roasted Poblano Chilaquiles with Fried Eggs
Numerous times, I’ve shared that I am not a morning person. I don’t know when this happened – but it’s true. I like a quiet start to my day. One where I can sleep long past the crack-of-dawn, then lay … Continue reading
Posted in Breakfast, Dinner, Gluten-Free, Lunch, Sauces, Vegetarian
Tagged breakfast, chava's mission sf, chava's restaurant, chava's restaurant san francisco, chilaquiles, fried eggs and tortillas, mexican breakfast, mexican breakfast food, mexican brunch, mission SF, perfect fried egg, roasted poblano sauce, savory breakfast, traditional mexican food, vegetarian
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Crispy Tofu Tacos with Creamy Roasted Poblano Sauce and Grilled Cotija Cheese
There are days (weeks, really) I am certain that I could live on tacos. Soft tacos, crunchy tacos. Veggie-stuffed, beans + cheese only, fish… I’m certain that making tacos at home means that anything you desire can be made into … Continue reading
Posted in Dinner, Lunch, Meatless Meat, Sauces, Vegetarian
Tagged baking crisp tofu, best tofu tacos, crispy baked tofu, damn good veggie tacos, dinner, food, grilled cotija cheese, loscabostacos, lostacoscabosfoodgawker, lunch, meatless mondays, meatlessmonday, poblano peppers, roasted poblano pepper sauce, taco recipes, taco recipes for vegetarians, tacos, tofu tacos, vegetarian, vegetarian tacos, vegetarian tofu tacos
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Grilled Garlic Basil Shrimp Risotto
I don’t often cook a lot of shrimp, although I love to eat it. Mainly this is the recipe I resort to because I am making it for my mother in law. I decided to try something new recently. My husband’s … Continue reading
Posted in Dinner, Lunch, Seafood
Tagged deveining shrimp, easy grilled shrimp, fresh corn and tomato basil risotto, garlic basil shrimp, garlic shrimp, grilled shrimp, homemade shrimp stock, homemade stock recipes, how to peel shrimp, seafood, seafood recipes, seafood risotto, shrimp risotto, shrimp stock, summer risottos
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Tomato Potato Tart
Having a good, flaky pastry crust in your recipe repertoire is a must. This is advice comes from the same girl who has made her fair share of crusts that shrink down from the all sides of the pan they’re … Continue reading
Posted in Appetizer, Dinner, Kids, Lunch, Sides, Vegetarian
Tagged best flaky pie crusts, brandywine tomatoes, cheese, flaky pastry crust, flaky pie crust, food, herb crust, homemade tomato tart crust, pies and tarts, savory tarts, summer eating, summer tomatoes, tart crust, tomato pie, tomato tart, tomatoes, vegetarian
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Olive Oil Poached Albacore Tuna Salad
There is a sandwich place here in Ashland I have yet to visit (sad confession), although I’ve stalked their menu for months now, salivating at the mention of house-cured meats, tantalizing combinations of ingredients, the well-thought out meldings of ingredients… … Continue reading
Posted in Dinner, Kids, Lunch, Seafood
Tagged aioli, albacore tuna salad, Chandra Corwin, fresh albacore, fresh tuna salad, homemade aioli, homemade garlic mayonnaise, homemade mayonnaise, olive oil poached fish, olive oil poached tuna, oregon albacore tuna, poached albacore, poached tuna, Sammich Ashland, tuna salad
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Coconut Quinoa, Black Bean and Tofu Bowl with Plantains
Sometimes when I find myself only needing to cook dinner for me, my inclination is to lean towards cold beer and potato chips. Or maybe slices of cheese, salty rice crackers, and a cocktail. A bowl of Cinnamon Toast Crunch … Continue reading
Green Machine Vegetarian Lasagna
Luckily, I’ve never had to deal with picky eaters. It isn’t because my cooking is usually, or has always been, good. When I first met my husband, he did the cooking for us. And there were some dang good meals … Continue reading
Posted in Dinner, Kids, Lunch, Sauces, Vegetarian
Tagged broccoli lasagna, cashew basil, cashew basil pesto, creamy pesto sauce, dinner, dinner plans, good for you pasta, green lasagna, green machine lasagna, lasagna, lasagna recipes, pasta, pesto lasagna, picky eaters, summer squash, vegetarian, zucchini, zucchini lasagna
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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
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
Julie Hashimoto-McCreery
