Category: SAVORY
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Baked Feta with Honey

As of the last few months, my new favorite ingredient to top salads or use as an appetizer is feta. It’s salty, it’s easily manipulated (for cooking purposes of course) and it’s cheese! Unless you are allergic, who doesn’t like cheese? This baked feta recipe is the perfect addition to your cooking adventures and an…
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Grandma Jo’s Green Chili Pork Stew

Looking for a delicious, heart-warming, easy soup to spice up your soup rotation? Yes please! My family always goes for soups or stews during any holiday stretch because sometimes we need a break from the multi-dish meals and countless hours in the kitchen. BUT we still need to feed the crowd so soups are a…
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Eggplant Rollatini

I have always seen eggplant or zucchini rolls on Pinterest and thought, Dang! That looks impossible. So I never tried it. Until I did. And now I am obsessed. I will roll anything up into vegetable slices. I think out of the two (eggplant or zucchini), I prefer eggplant, because if you salt the eggplant…
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Deconstructed Spicy Tuna Crispy Rice

Let’s put it this way – growing up I only liked avocado rolls. Despite my father and brother’s love for sashimi during our summer trips to see the grandparents in Hawaii, I was not a fish fan. Cooked or raw. But especially raw. That is, until I met my husband. He is half Japanese on…
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Jerk Shrimp & Pineapple Skewers

*REPOST FROM THE OLD BLOG* As we ease our way into Superbowl Sunday this week, I was struck by how iconic Superbowl food has become. Chicken wings, nachos, guacamole, cheese boards, buffalo dip! Oh don’t forget the buffalo dip! Although all these things are great and obviously we all want an excuse to eat junk…