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Category Archives: Sides
Warm Beet Green Salad with Beets, Goat Cheese, and Pine Nuts
I grew up on an island small enough to travel from one side to the other, then back, in less than half a day. Everyone knows everyone, or knows of everyone. Family isn’t always blood-related. Anyone can be aunty, uncle, … Continue reading
Posted in Appetizer, Dinner, Gluten-Free, Lunch, Salad, Sides, Vegetarian
Tagged aged balsamic vinegar, appetizer salad, beet greens, beet salad, beets, dinner salad, goat cheese, Hawaii, honey boro, kanten, Kauai, li hing mui, lunch salad, pine nuts, salad, vegetarian, warm beet salad, warm salad
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Vegetarian Chicken Sausage with Spinach, Sun-Dried Tomatoes and Pesto
Seitan can be intimidating, especially if you’re not familiar with it. For any new vegetarian, especially, this wheat-based veggie “meat” is straight up weird. It’s texturally similar to chicken (with a slightly larger amount of chew). While store bought versions … Continue reading
Posted in Appetizer, Dinner, Lunch, Meatless Meat, Sides, Vegetarian
Tagged chicken seitan, homemade seitan, homemade vegetarian sausage, pesto seitan, seitan sausage, seitan sausage homemade, spinach sun dried tomato, vegetarian chicken sausage, vegetarian sausage, veggie sausage homemade, veggie seitan
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Vegetarian Pepperoni Sausage
I shall confess that on the first day of this year, I absolutely ate a chicken fried steak smothered in sausage gravy, two over-easy eggs, and half a Belgian waffle for breakfast. Call it post-drinking (a.k.a. hangover) food. Call it… … Continue reading
Posted in Dinner, Kids, Life, Lunch, Meatless Meat, Sides, Vegetarian
Tagged field roast chorizo, homemade veggie pepperoni, seitan, seitan pepperoni, spicy pepperoni veggie, spicy vegetarian pepperoni, spicy vegetarian sausage, tofurky pepperoni, veg pepperoni, vegetarian pepperoni, vegetarian pepperoni pizza, veggie pepperoni pizza, yves
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Top 16 Recipes from 2012
It’s almost 2013 and yet, somehow it feels as though 2012 just started a few short weeks ago. Its been a good year, filled with family, friends, travel, new recipes, good food… A year’s worth of blogging. And I’m graciously … Continue reading
Vegetarian Mushroom Gravy
I don’t remember growing up, eating vegetarian gravy. Ever. In fact, my memories of gravy revolve around homemade whole roasted chickens, whose drippings were turned into very flavorful, rich chicken gravy. Or, fried pork chop drippings made into creamy pork … Continue reading
Posted in Dinner, Lunch, Sauces, Sides, Vegetarian
Tagged creamy mushroom gravy, creamy vegetarian gravy, creamy vegetarian mushroom gravy, crimini gravy, crimini mushroom, gravy, gravy recipe, homemade mushroom gravy, mushroom, mushroom gravies, mushroom gravy, thyme, vegetarian gravy, vegetarian mushroom gravy
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Scalloped Yam Casserole (Sweet Potato Gratin)
I told you we were back tracking to Thanksgiving. Here’s another recipe, in case you thought I was kidding. But the truth is, these sweet potatoes would be good at any time of year. Don’t limit yourself to the holidays. … Continue reading
Posted in Appetizer, Dinner, Gluten-Free, Life, Sauces, Sides, Vegetarian
Tagged bechamel sauce, BeTopDog, pecorino romano, romano cheese, sage, scalloped yams, side dish, sidedish, sweet potato yam, sweet potatoes, Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving food, Thanksgiving side dish, thyme, yam casserole, yam gratin, yams, yams scalloped
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Cheesy Anaheim and Poblano Pepper Rice
Sometimes you need to throw together a dish on a whim. Since I’m not much of a baker most of the time, I prefer contributing savory items. My utmost dreaded requested item: salad. I love to eat salads, mind you. … Continue reading
Posted in Dinner, Gluten-Free, Lunch, Sides, Vegetarian
Tagged anaheim peppers, cheese rice, cheesy rice, poblano peppers, rice, rice side dish, roasted pepper rice, roasted peppers, side dish rice, side dishes, tomatillos
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Vegetarian Shiitake Leek Stuffing
I am deliriously behind in sharing some recipes from… oh, Thanksgiving. We’ve been busy. My husband and I just celebrated our one year anniversary. Then his birthday, the following week. Not to mention my mister has a band, Cast of … Continue reading
Cheesy Herb Pull-Apart Bread
Pinterest generally has me wanting to paint everything I own in chalkboard paint, make various things from mason jars, try fifty new workout routines, and make nine thousand varieties of pull-apart breads (after I’ve hoarded an equal number of recipes … Continue reading
Posted in Baking, Bread, Dinner, Sides, Vegetarian
Tagged bread, cheese and herb bread, cheesy bread, homemade bread, pull apart bread, pull-apart loaf, savory pull-apart
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Romesco Soup
Let’s talk about Van Morrison. We can simultaneously discuss my love for stormy weather and how the last couple days have threatened (offered) exactly that: blustery, windy, cold. On days like these, all I’d really like to do is lay … Continue reading
Posted in Appetizer, Dinner, Lunch, Sides, Soup, Vegetarian
Tagged almonds, red pepper soup, roasted red peppers, roasted tomatoes, Romesco, Romesco soup, soup, soup recipe, soup with almonds, Sunset Magazine
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Julie Hashimoto-McCreery
