Down to Earth Cookbook
From Hawaii’s Pioneer of Modern-Day Healthy Living
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Introduction
People are drawn to a vegetarian lifestyle by all sorts of motives. Some of us want to live longer, healthier lives or help improve the environment. Others have made the switch to be vegetarian because they want to preserve Earth’s natural resources, or because they love or care about the animals and are ethically opposed to eating them. Some people just like to try different types of cuisine.
Regardless of the reason for your interest in vegetarian cooking, our aim with this cookbook is to provide you with recipes for the tastiest, most popular dishes from our cooking classes and the Down to Earth Deli that have withstood the test of time. Customers keep asking for these recipes.
The recipes of our Deli items are an important part of our business so unfortunately we do not provide them. However, we can do the next best thing for you! We developed alternative recipes for many of the most popular deli items and have included them in this cookbook. You also will find in the cookbook popular recipes from our cooking classes and other particularly tasty ones from the vast collection posted on our website at www.downtoearth.org/recipes.
This cookbook features 40 of the best recipes to honor our 40 years of service to Hawaii. All the recipes are home style, and easy to make.
We hope you enjoy trying them out as much as we enjoyed putting this cookbook together for you.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Appetizers and Side Dishes: Roasted Cauliflower Dip
Muhammara (Red Pepper & Walnut Spread)
Chickpea Gravy
Curry Fried Rice
Spinach Luau
Soups and Stews:
Celery and Cauliflower Miso Soup
Portuguese White Bean Soup
Creamy Split Pea Soup
Three Bean Chili
Salads:
Rainbow Salad
Pono Purple Potato Salad
Lomi Lomi Salad
Mock Chicken Salad
Entrees:
Zucchini Noodles with Peanut Sauce
Lehua Smoothie Bowl
Sesame Seed Porridge
Ramen
Whole Grain Bowls
Spicy Tofu Poke
Mock Korean Chicken
Wasabi Pea Encrusted Tofu with Sesame-Miso Sauce
Black Bean Burger
Best Baked Tofu with Sautéed Onions
Eggplant Parmesan
Pesto Pasta with Pumpkin
Korma Curry
Enchilada
Lasagna
Beverages:
Turmeric Tonic
Jasmine Ginger Limeade
Spicy Tomato Juice
Blueberry Maca Smoothie
Deluxe Green Power Smoothie
Desserts:
Coconut Cream Shake
Sunflower Seed Panna Cotta
Chocolate Chip Tahini Cookies
Tropical Pineapple Cheesecake Tarts
Chocolate Mac Nut Chews
Lemon-Lime Avocado Pie
Okinawan Sweet Potato Haupia Pie
Down to Earth History
Best Health Food Store 11 Years in a Row
Evolution of the Down to Earth Brand
About the Authors
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Book Details
About the Book
This cookbook contains forty vegetarian recipes, one for each year of the forty-year history of Down to Earth Organic & Natural. Down to Earth is Hawaii’s leading retailer of local, fresh, organic, and natural foods. The company is unique in that it has always been vegetarian, and it is one of only a few all-vegetarian stores in the nation.
Many of the dishes in this collection are inspired by the most popular dishes from the company’s cooking classes and deli. It also contains recipes for particularly tasty dishes from the vast collection posted on the company’s website at www.downtoearth.org/recipes.
All the recipes are home style and easy to make.
About the Author
The collection of recipes in the Down to Earth Cookbook is a collaboration by vegetarian chefs of the Community Outreach Team at Down to Earth Organic & Natural in Hawaii. They reflect the company's 40 years of accumulated knowledge as a vegetarian natural food store chain and one of only a few all-vegetarian natural food stores in the nation.