The Recipe Files

This is a list of all of the recipes featured on my site. As I've cooked more, created more and learned more about cooking over the last four years, my recipes have become less specific, are done more to taste and are more my own. For the most part, the amounts of the various ingredients I post are more suggestion than rule and often feature ingredients that I can get locally here in Hawaii, or that I could get locally in Oregon when I lived there. My favorite recipes, the ones I make over and over again, are marked with two asterisks (**).

Be creative! If you don't have something or don't like something, substitute something else. If you think it needs more or less salt or cumin or coconut, go with your gut! Then leave a comment on that post and fill me in on what you've tried and learned too, or how it worked out in your kitchen (every place, every stove, every oven and every person are different and affect how we cook, eat and taste our food). I love to hear the variations and improvements others have made - it keeps me thinking and creating too! Please let me know if any of the links don't work so that I can fix them.

**Updated 2/12/09**

Breakfast
Apple Turnovers
Baked Eggs with Tarragon
Crepes a la LB **
Homemade Granola
Lemony Fruit and Yogurt Cocktails (HotM 14)
Sage Breakfast Sausage **

Breads and Loaves

Alice Waters' Soda Bread
Caramel Hazelnut Sticky Buns; variation: Caramel Macadamia Nut Sticky Buns (HotM 22)
Nicole's English Muffin Batter Bread
Great Grandma's Date Nut Loaf Cake **
Brown Sugar and Toasted Hazelnut Scones

Appetizers

Pkhali (Roasted Beet Dip)
Prosciutto-wrapped asparagus with truffle butter
Zucchini Pancakes with Basil Creme Fraiche

Salads (mostly main-dish type salads)

Cold Tofu Salad with Soy-Ginger Dipping Sauce **
Black-Eyed-Pea and Shrimp Salad
Curried Chicken Apple Salad
Grilled Sweet Potato Salad (HotM 16)
Roasted Duck Salad with Pears and Gorgonzola (Paper Chef #11)
Salmon and Barley Salad
Tuna Salad with Lemon Vinaigrette
Warm Curly Endive and Fava Bean Salad
Warm Salmon Salad

Soups and Chilis

"Eyeball" Soup (Guest Post from my Sister)
Golden Potato Leek Soup with Cheddar Toasts
Lemongrass- and Ginger-scented Chicken Soup (HotM 11)
Mexican Black Bean Sausage Chili
Roasted Butternut Squash Soup with Toasted Walnuts
Sunshine Soup (Kabocha Squash) **
Truffle-scented White Bean Soup
Vegetable, Chicken and Barley Soup
Venison Chili

Main Courses

Vegetarian:
Blue Cheese, Red Onion and Pine Nut Pizza **
Caramelized Onion and Basalmic Vegetable Pizza
Cauliflower and Rice Curried Casserole (HotM 12)
Curried Vegetable-Potato Somosas
Grilled Radicchio and Basalmic Risotto **
Kabocha Squash Pizza with Kale and Fresh Sage
Lasagna Rolls
Lentil Enchiladas **
Loving Boyfriend's "Off the Cuff" Stir-fry
Pumpkin Tortellini with Sage Brown Butter
Quiche, a basic recipe **
Risotto with Morel and Petite Pea Ragout
Roasted Eggplant Lasagna with Fire-Roasted Tomato Sauce
Spicy Parmesan, Broccoli and Pine Nut Risotto
Squid Ink Pasta with Zucchini
Summer Bounty Flatbread
Tagliatelle (Homemade) with Truffles and Oozy Cheese Sauce

Fish:
Broiled Salmon with Huckleberry Sauce
Black Cod with Orange Zest, Rosemary and Garlic
Golden Halibut Pie
Opah Burgers **
Potato-encrusted Halibut with Fennel and Roasted Onions
Sauteed salmon with Cucumber
Seared Yellowfin Tuna **
Spicy Individual Seafood Potpies
Sushi Rolled at Home (How-to) **
Wild Rice with Smoked Fish and Snap Peas **

Poultry:
Chicken Breasts with Fruit Salsa (HotM 10)
Chicken Palliards with Grape Sauce
Curried Chicken with Potatoes and Vegetables
Parmesan Chicken with Lemony Greens and Roasted Fennel **
Simply Good Sausage and Potato Supper **
Sweet Vermouth Chicken
Tri-Colored Orzo with Chicken, Veggies and Chickpeas **
Tuscan-Style Roasted Chicken with Vegetables **

Pork or Red Meat:
Company Meat Loaf
Mushroom and Pancetta Pizzas
New Year's Eve Dinner (prime rib, carmelized pearl onions with sherry vinegar, wild rice with scallions and truffle oil, simple green salad with homemade croutons)
Roasted Fresh Ham with Onion Jus
Smoky-Flavored Crockpot Ribs **


Side Dishes (including side dish-type salads)

Basil Chive Red Potato Hash
Braised Cabbage with Fuji Apples and Onions
Chile-Lime Corn
Cumin-scented Warm Okra Salad
Eakin Family Fried Okra **
Farro and Vegetable Salad
Easy Mexican-Style Rice (HotM 21) **
Heart Healthy 3-Bean Salad (HotM 17)
Peter's Beer Beans **
Potato-Rutabaga Gratin with Tomato-Lemon Gremolata
Rustic Porcini and Onion Stuffing
Shredded Brussel's Sprouts with Pecans and Mustard Seeds (HotM 9)
Yellow Squash Ribbons with Red Onion and Parmesan **


Desserts

Cookies and Bars:
Chai Shortbread Cookies
Coconut-topped Meyer Lemon Bars
Double Chocolate Coconut Cookies
Earl Grey Tea Cookies
Orange-Cardamom Madelines
Pistachio Financiers
Raspberry Linzer Windowpane Cookies
Ultimate Soft and Chewy Chocolate Chunk Cookies **

Cakes and Cupcakes:
Chocolate Brandy Bundt Cake; variation: Orange Chocolate Brandy Bundt Cake **
Coconut Cupcakes filled with Meyer Lemon Curd
Meyer Lemon Cake
Rosemary-Infused Chocolate Fudge Cake with Chocolate-Tofu Frosting (Vegan)
Vanilla Cake with Minted Strawberry Sauce and Tofu Cream (Vegan)
Victoria Sponge Cake **

Pies, Pastries and Tarts:
Basic Pumpkin Pie
Mascarpone Tart with Mango-Peach Curd (Macadamia Nut Crust) **
Pumpkin Custard-filled Pastry with Maple Caramel Syrup
Raspberry Meringue Gateau
Rhubarb Pie

Other:
(Apple) Banana Bread Pudding with Grand Marnier Sauce **
Azuki Bean Mousse
Roasted Bosc Pears with Pomegranate Glaze

Beverages

Quince Brandy
Rosemary Limeade (HotM 15) **
Rhubarb Schnapps (In the Pink)

Extras

'Aha'aina Recipes (Foodbuzz 24, 24, 24)
Butter Rum Caramels
Diet for Rescued Baby Birds (Yes, for baby birds!)
Elderberry Tincture **
Harissa **
Hanukka Noshers (Dog biscuits; for dogs. Really.)
Kimchee (HotM 18)
Pickled Red Currants
Pink Christmas Marshmallows
Roasted Tomatillo Salsa
Rum Preserved Figs
Walnut, Parsley and Flax Pesto (HotM 23) **