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Little Pastas with Seitan, Herbs and Cheese

On evenings like this, where the only sounds echoing through our downtown Ashland home comes from the downpour happening outside my open windows, there’s a peacefulness. Perhaps it’s the comfort I’ve always found in water. I could spend hours in … Continue reading

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Creamy Herb Potato Leek Soup

Sometimes I forget what it’s like to cook with additional little hands in the kitchen. That sounds really creepy, I know. I’m referring to cooking with kids, not miscellaneous spare body parts I’ve failed to confess to owning. I have … Continue reading

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Vegetarian Baked Spaghetti with Field Roast Vegan Sausage

It’s 4 o’clock in the afternoon. I’ve folded precisely seven loads of laundry, done the dishes four times since waking up, ran up and down the stairs in our house fifteen billion times, pulled weeds that will inevitably show up again tomorrow. I’ve worked … Continue reading

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Roasted Tomato Lentil Soup with Potatoes and Sweet Potatoes

It’s officially fall. My favorite time of year. Temperatures are noticeably cooler in the early morning and evening. While the colors around here haven’t begun to change yet, I know it’s coming. Vibrant reds and oranges, yellows somewhere in there. … Continue reading

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Easy Raw Tomato Sauce

My quintessential summer mealtime would probably include no stoves or ovens being used. Or maybe being used very minimally. There would be lots of veggies straight out of the garden. Perhaps grilled fish or something along those lines. Grilled pizza? … Continue reading

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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

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