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Easy Baked Coconut Shrimp

Easy Baked Coconut Shrimp

I’ve always tried to live relatively frugally, so that means I usually cook pork or chicken, or cheaper cuts of beef and make them as tasty as possible. Buying seafood to cook at home has always seemed like a splurge for some reason. (Maybe it’s because getting seafood in Hawaii at restaurants was easier/tastier/just as cheap) Anyway, one dinner-for-one feast that’s I’ve loved whipping up was shrimp three ways. I would get a pound of shrimp and cook 1/3 of it in butter and garlic, 1/3 would be cajun shrimp, and the final third would be these easy baked coconut shrimp.

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Mango Jalapeno Salsa

Mango Jalapeno Salsa

One of my favorite things about summer is making salsa. Pico de gallo, tomatillo, black bean, watermelon (I promise it’s amazing!), and mango salsas just to name a few. Many times in my life I have made a salsa bar for dinner where fresh salsas and chips were all that were eaten. And to this day, those were some of my favorite meals. So, to get you started on your own summery salsa kick, I whipped up this Mango Jalapeno Salsa.

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Homemade Classic Chicken Katsu with Asian Cucumber Salad

Homemade Classic Chicken Katsu

If there is one thing that screams Hawaii to me (other than the sun, the beach, the ocean, the da kine Aloha spirit…), it’s plate lunch. Give me a plate lunch and I will be sooooo happy! If I don’t order meat jun, I will order chicken katsu. Or if I’m feeling crazy, I’ll get them both. Because seriously, you’re going to go swim off all these calories anyway, right? So let me take you to Hawaii with this homemade classic chicken katsu recipe.

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Lemon Parsley Quinoa

Lemon Parsley Quinoa

Ah quinoa. One of those foods that we just can’t get enough of. I always need some sort of grain/seed/starch with my dinner to round out the other yummy things on the plate, and lately, I’ve been opting more and more for quinoa. There are so many different and easy ways to cook it, but this lemon parsley quinoa has become a household staple.

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