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Season 3, Episode 6: Campfire Cooking Cinnamon Sugar Breadsticks.  With the weather warming up, it's time to think about outdoor cooking, cooking while camping, and over backyard bonfires. This recipe is simple, fun, and interactive and will get everyone involved! Rather than roasting marshmallows, get some bread dough on your stick over the white coals!

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Find the recipe on my website where you can also print off the recipe: https://www.juliehoagwriter.com/2018/09/04/campfire-cooking-cinnamon-breadsticks-recipe-camping-backyard-bonfires/

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Season 3, Episode 5: Italian Lime Broccoli Side Dish Quickie Recipe. This is the first in my quickie recipe series! The episodes will be quick AND the recipes will be quick! This is yummy! It's the best way to eat broccoli! This is a really super delish recipe and it's so fast and quick, it's a snap! Listen for easy meal prep! This is great for vegetarian cooking or a veggie side dish for any meal.

#sidedish #broccoli #vegetarianrecipe #veggies #vegetablesidedish #mealprep #easyrecipe #meatless

Italian Lime Broccoli Recipe:

Ingredients:

1 lb. fresh broccoli in bite size florets

1 Tbsp lime juice

1 dry packet Italian dressing mix

1/4 cup olive oil

Instructions

1. Mix olive oil and Italian dressing mix.

2. Pour it over the broccoli and stir it well.

3. Drizzle lime juice over and stir well.

4. Bake 15-20 minutes at 350 degrees, then about 5 minutes at 400 degrees until browned as desired.

5. EAT!

Also mentioned in the episode:

Yogurt Herb Bread:

Ingredients:

2 cups plain non-fat Greek yogurt

3 cups self-rising flour

1 tsp. basil leaves

1/2 tsp ground oregano

1 tsp. dried chopped onions

1 tsp. dried rosemary leaves

1 tsp. garlic salt with parsley

1/2 tsp. black pepper

2 tsp olive oil

1/2 tsp. kosher salt

Instructions: How to cook

1. Combine all herbs and spices and stir well.

2. Add flour and yogurt and about 4 tsp of the spice/herb mixture to a bowl. Knead together with your hands.... it seems like it won't form into a dough ball, but keep going, and it eventually will come together.

3. Form the dough into a 9-inch-long loaf and place it on a cookie sheet lined with parchment paper.

4. Cut a shallow slice down the center of the loaf.

5. Bake at 350 degrees 35-40 minutes. 

6. Remove from the oven when it's golden brown, but don't cook it too long.

7. Brush it with the olive oil.

8. Sprinkle it with the kosher salt.

9. Let it cool and slice it.

10. Enjoy!

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Season 3, Episode 4: Italian Sandwich Spread, Vegan and Vegetarian to Spice up Your Subs. Print the recipe from my website: 

https://www.juliehoagwriter.com/2018/05/02/italian-sandwich-spread-recipes-for-vegans-and-vegetarians/

Add this tasty spread to meatless sandwiches or meat sandwiches to add some yummy zip! Or use this spread on toasted sandwiches, sub sandwiches, crackers, or as a dip for veggies or chips. An easy way to change the flavor of your sandwich!

Great for family meals and party food ideas!

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Season 3, Episode 3; Veggie Avocado Egg Salad and Veggie Cilantro Lime Salad, and my new book! I'm thinking of spring and Easter, and salads! These two salads are super quick to make and super tasty! They are both vegetarian recipes, but not vegan.

The Veggie Avocado Egg Salad has the added boost of protein, and with it having the eggs, it fits right in with Easter! This salad can be whipped up in minutes! I suggest making it close to when you intend to serve/eat it.

Both salads are loaded with vegetables.

On my website, you can easily find the recipes and the instructions and even print them if you'd like:

Veggie Avocado Egg Salad https://www.juliehoagwriter.com/2017/02/09/veggie-avocado-egg-salad/

Veggie Cilantro Lime Salad https://www.juliehoagwriter.com/2016/10/10/easy-veggie-cilantro-lime-salad/

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The book has the following tropes: YA Contemporary Romance, Romantic Comedy, Drama, Forced Proximity, Enemies to Friends, Cinnamon Roll MMC with grit, empowerment of women.

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Season 3, Episode 2: Tator Tot Hotdish for Vegetarians AND Meat Eaters One Recipe One Dish. As a vegetarian, have you ever looked at a dish and wish you could have some too? Well that was me with Tator Tot hotdish for years, so I finagled a meatless Tator Tot Hotdish so I could have a vegetarian tator tot hot dish alongside my family have meat tator tot hotdish. Tator tot hotdish is popular in Minnesota, and is a class Midwest dinner casserole dish. I've never tasted it, UNTIL I made a vegetarian version. This is one recipe for one dish to create a meatless hotdish portion and a meat portion. Midwest cooking! Casserole Recipes! Let's go!

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Recipe adapted from "The Great Minnesota Hot Dish" cookbook by Theresa Millang
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Make this dish work for vegetarians and meat-eaters:
Ingredients:
1 lb ground beef, lightly seasoned with salt and pepper
1/2 cup chopped onions (cooked is better)
1 (10 3/4 ounce) can of cream of celery (or cream of potato)
1 cup creamed corn (or beans or peas)
1 small can of peas and carrots, drained
1 (10 3/4 ounce) cream of mushroom soup
Frozen tator tots
1 can chickpeas (drained)
1/2 cup fried onions

Instructions:
Spread raw ground beef in 3/4 of a greased 9x13 glass baking dish. Sprinkle with salt and pepper. Spread chickpeas across remaining 1/4 of pan where the ground beef is not.  Sprinkle evenly with cooked diced onions. Top with cream of celery soup, spread it across with a spoon. Top with can of creamed corn, spread it across the whole pan evenly. Spread the can of drained peas and carrots evenly across the top. Sprinkle evenly with fried onions. Lay a confluent layer of frozen tator tots across the entire pan. Spread cream of mushroom across the entire top of the dish. Bake at 350 degrees for 55 to 60 minutes. Carefully scoop out meatless portions, avoiding scooping up any meat. Top each serving with ketchup to garnish as desired.

Enjoy!

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New helpful little book about cooking for a split table! How to Cook for a Split Table of Vegetarians and Meat-Eaters book affiliate link, the podcast may receive commissions on sales. The for the support!  https://amzn.to/4gioVK8

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American Midwest Cooking Quiches cookbook (affiliate links)
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Split Table Recipes Cookbook
One Dish, Two Diets Cookbook author https://storyoriginapp.com/universalbooklinks/36b9ce90-6b57-11ec-837f-8f2460b6a963

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Season 3, Episode 1: Cream Cheese Quiches, Jalapeno and Onion & Chives. These little quiches are so good! With a pie crust cradling them, these savory creamy quiches are super tasty and so delicious! #vegetarian #eggs #cooking #cookbook #recipes #meatless #breakfast #brunch

These are easy to make quiches. This recipe originated for my cookbook American Midwest Quiches, but I modified it to make one jalapeno quiche and one onion and chives quiche. I did this so there was a spicier version and a less spicier version. It can easily be modified to all spicy or all non spicy.

Ingredients:
7.5 ounces jalapeno flavored cream cheese, softened
7.5 ounces onion and chives flavored cream cheese, softened
8 eggs, divided
2/3 c. skim milk, divided
1/2 c. white onions, diced
1/2 c. red onions, diced,
1/3 c. green chilis
1/3 c. canned jalaplenos
1/2 c. shredded cheddar cheese, divided
1/2 tsp garlic salt, divided
2 pre-prepared pie crusts
1 tbsp olive oil
OPTIONAL: 1/2 c. bacon bits
OPTIONAL: 2 c. salsa

Instructions:

1. Beat together 4 eggs, 1/2 c. milk, and 1/4 teaspoon garlic salt separately in two separate bowls.
2. Add the softened cream cheese (set out at room temperature until softened) to the egg and milk mixtures, one jalapeno cream cheese to one bowl and one onion and chives cream cheese to the other. Mix with a hand mixer until fully blended smooth.
3.  Saute both types of onions in olive oil until softened.
4. Press pie crusts into 2 pie pans (be sure to set them out at room temperature first to soften them).
5. Spread jalapenos across one pan, green chili across the other.
6. Spread 1/2 the onions to each pie crust, sprinkling them across evenly.
7. Sprinkle 1/2 c. shredded cheddar cheese evenly across both crusts.
8. Pour the jalapeno cream cheese, egg, & milk mixture across the jalapeno quiche and the onion and chives cream cheese, egg, & milk mixture over the green chilis quiche.
9. If you wish to make them with meat, add bacon bits to desired quiches (alternatively top with bacon bits after cooking).
10. Bake at 350 degrees for one hour. Quiche is done when a knife inserted in the middle comes out clean. 
11. Allow quiches to cool for about 10 minutes.
12. Serve. Top with salsa as desired.

BOOKS!

New helpful little book about cooking for a split table! How to Cook for a Split Table of Vegetarians and Meat-Eaters book affiliate link, the podcast may receive commissions on sales. The for the support!  https://amzn.to/4gioVK8

Get my Minnesota cookbooks! Cook with eggs!
American Midwest Cooking Quiches cookbook (affiliate links)
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Universal link https://storyoriginapp.com/universalbooklinks/07baee4a-61dc-11ed-ba27-277909561aeb
Split Table Recipes Cookbook
One Dish, Two Diets Cookbook author https://storyoriginapp.com/universalbooklinks/36b9ce90-6b57-11ec-837f-8f2460b6a963

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Season 2, Episode 21: Holiday recipes! Perfect for #Brunch! What is it? It's a Hawaiian Bread Spinach Quiche Hybrid Recipe. This recipe is great for any time of year, but also perfect for the holidays with the Hawaiian bread and the ham. This is a hybrid recipe, that I coin as such, because it works for a split table of vegetarians and meat eaters. This recipe is a convenient recipe for a split table where it is easy to create a pan of half meat, and half meatless (or three fourths as desired). Very easily you have both meat containing and vegetarian portions. You can customize it depending on how much you want for meat portions and how many for meatless portions. The point is you are getting to feed two diets with one recipe! No short order cook status for you!

#vegetarian #vegetarians #hybridrecipe #splittable #recipes #cooking #familycooking #cookingforafamily #familymeal #familymeals #juliehoag #holidayrecipes

Seasoned Oyster Crackers Snack:
1 tsp dried dill weed
1 tsp garlic powder
1 envelope Hidden Valley Rank dressing mix
1 cup olive oil
12 oz oyster crackers
Mix seasonings together. Pour over crackers. Let sit for 24 hours, stirring several times to coat and mix. If it's still oily, try adding broken up soda crackers and pretzels (this is also a great switch up to add!)

This recipe in in my quiche cookbook and on my website at https://www.juliehoagwriter.com/2022/05/01/hawaiian-bread-spinach-quiche/
where you can easily print it for your convenience.

It's really a tasty quiche and is also a very juicy/moist a leftover as well. Try it with smoked ham for a slightly different flavor.

Ham, spinach, and Hawaiian bread all make me think of the holidays, so that's why I wanted to publish this recipe here now, but it's really delish for any time of the year!

Happy holidays! Merry Christmas!

Extra recipe: The Heart-filled Grinch Punch, A Christmas Mocktail
https://www.juliehoagwriter.com/2018/12/17/heart-filled-grinch-punch-christmas-mocktail/
#mocktail
#holidaymocktail

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New helpful little book about cooking for a split table! How to Cook for a Split Table of Vegetarians and Meat-Eaters book affiliate link, the podcast may receive commissions on sales. The for the support!  https://amzn.to/4gioVK8

Get my Minnesota cookbooks! Cook with eggs!
American Midwest Cooking Quiches cookbook (affiliate links)
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Universal link https://storyoriginapp.com/universalbooklinks/07baee4a-61dc-11ed-ba27-277909561aeb
Split Table Recipes Cookbook
One Dish, Two Diets Cookbook author https://storyoriginapp.com/universalbooklinks/36b9ce90-6b57-11ec-837f-8f2460b6a963

Other:
Self help book:
40 Ways to Honor Your Mom After She Has Passed Away https://amzn.to/459Yyzv
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Season 2, Episode 20: Easy No Bake Appetizers for the holidays. You're busy baking, shopping, cleaning, wrapping, planning so take the easier route for appetizers and choose no bake apps!

#appetizers #vegetarian #recipes #holidayrecipes #vegetarian 

This is a very simple easy recipe for little seasoned oyster snack crackers.

1 tsp dill weed
1 tsp garlic powder
1 envelope original Ranch dressing packet
1 c. olive oil
12 oz oyster crackers
Mix dill weed, garlic powder, Ranch dressing packet, and oil together. Then pour over crackers. Sitr. Let soak overnight for best flavor, then enjoy!

Pickle Wraps: get the easy recipe here https://www.juliehoagwriter.com/2016/10/14/last-minute-pickle-wrap-appetizer/


Spicy Black Bean Avocado Roll ups:
Spicy Black Bean Avocado Dip I love this recipe because it is versatile as it can be used in two ways: in Spicy Black Bean Avocado Roll-ups or as a Spicy Black Bean Avocado Dip. This Roll-up appetizer is easy and tasty! Get the recipe: https://www.juliehoagwriter.com/2016/12/07/spicy-black-bean-avocado-roll-ups-and-dip/

5 Simple Ways to Serve Appetizers with Spinach Dip https://www.juliehoagwriter.com/2017/11/21/5-simple-ways-serve-appetizers-spinach-dip/

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Universal link https://storyoriginapp.com/universalbooklinks/07baee4a-61dc-11ed-ba27-277909561aeb
One Dish, Two Diets Cookbook author https://storyoriginapp.com/universalbooklinks/36b9ce90-6b57-11ec-837f-8f2460b6a963

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Season 2, Episode 19: Small Batch Easy Fast Savory Baked Beans, Half Meatless, Half Bacon, plus Vegetarian stuffing. Easy side dishes are important because it's often the case that the entree takes more time and effort. This is especially true for the Thanksgiving meal so easy side dishes are a wonderful thing! These recipes work for either a vegetarian or a meat eater as side dishes.

Small Batch Easy Fast Savory Baked Beans, Half Meatless, Half Meat

Ingredients

1 lb 12 oz. vegetarian Baked Beans
1/4 c. ketchup
1/2 c. wet yellow mustard
1 Tbsp. packed brown sugar
4-6 slices of thick sliced bacon

Instructions

1. Cook bacon in the oven at 400 degrees for 20-25 minutes.
2. Stir together beans, ketchup, mustard, and brown sugar.
3. Heat bean mixture on the stove top for about 20 minutes until it's simmering and popping (but don't let it burn on the bottom, so stir occasionally and watch).
4. Remove the portions of beans you'd like to have be meatless. Add bacon to the portion you want to have meat by crumbling the bacon over the beans.
5. Serve hot.

Recipe for Vegetarian Stuffing with tofu and cheese: https://www.juliehoagwriter.com/2017/12/15/delicious-vegetarian-cheese-tofu-stuffing/

Rich Decadent Butternut Apple Squash Bars https://www.juliehoagwriter.com/2017/10/24/rich-decadent-butternut-squash-apple-bars/

Thanksgiving Sweet Potatoes https://www.buzzsprout.com/2064160/episodes/11726590-thanksgiving-sweet-potatoes-and-maple-cinnamon-pumpkin-bread

#minnesota #familycooking #vegetarian #veggies #vegetablesidedish #recipe #recipes #cooking #stuffing #thanksgiving #thanksgivingmeal #thanksgivingrecipes #midwest #minnesota

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One Dish, Two Diets Cookbook author https://storyoriginapp.com/universalbooklinks/36b9ce90-6b57-11ec-837f-8f2460b6a963

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Happy Thanksgiving!
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Season 2, Episode 18: Roasted Roots Vegetable Side Dish with a Surprising Ingredient.  
Join Julie Hoag in this episode of Vegetarians & Meat Lovers: Split Table Recipes as she unveils a delightful roasted roots recipe that's perfect for autumn. This versatile side dish caters to both vegetarians and meat lovers, featuring an unexpected ingredient that transforms its flavor profile entirely. Radishes, often overlooked in cooking, take center stage alongside potatoes and rainbow baby carrots, creating a colorful and delicious dish.

Julie shares her tips for achieving the perfect roast, including her preferred spice blend of rosemary, garlic salt with parsley, basil, and black pepper, all mixed with olive oil for a savory touch. Discover why baby carrots are her go-to choice for uniform cooking and how to adapt the recipe to suit your taste.
As always, Julie sprinkles in a bit of her personal life, sharing updates on her family's activities and upcoming Thanksgiving preparations. Tune in for a heartwarming episode filled with culinary inspiration and a sneak peek at her upcoming baked beans recipe, perfect for split tables.


🗣️ Quotes from Julie Hoag

"I'm a sneaky mom here. I'm getting radishes into my kids."

"It's a surprising ingredient, one I would have never, ever thought of doing."

"I don't want to be a short order cook."

Recipe and how to instructions for cooking this veggie side dish:
Ingredients:

• 17 fresh raw radishes (12 oz.), washed and trimmed (cut larger ones in half)
• 12 oz. fresh raw rainbow baby carrots
• 1.5 lbs raw little potatoes (Little Trios in 3 colors)
• 1 Tbsp dried Rosemary Leaves
• 1 tsp. garlic salt with parsley
• 1 tsp. dried basil leaves
• 1/2 tsp. black pepper
• 3 Tbsp olive oil

Instructions for cooking this recipe:

1. Spray a cookie sheet with cooking spray.
2. Combine herbs and spices with oil. Stir.
3. Pour oil/spice/herb mixture over veggies in a large bowl. Stir. 
4. Spread veggies across the cookie sheet in a single layer.
5. Roast vegetables at 425 degrees for 40 minutes or so (depending on desire doneness).
6. Serve it up!

I hope you enjoy my cooking podcast and find great ideas for family meal planning, easy #vegetable dishes, cooking for families, and holiday autumn cooking using root vegetables. Follow my podcast for more cooking tips, healthy eating, cooking with kids, and sneaky healthy meals that you can make work for a split table of eaters.

#minnesota #familycooking #vegetarian #veggies #vegetablesidedish #recipe #recipes #cooking

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Universal link https://storyoriginapp.com/universalbooklinks/07baee4a-61dc-11ed-ba27-277909561aeb
One Dish, Two Diets Cookbook author https://storyoriginapp.com/universalbooklinks/36b9ce90-6b57-11ec-837f-8f2460b6a963

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https://www.youtube.com/@juliehoag2233

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