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TheLastWonton
Coming to you from the beautiful Okanagan Valley of British Columbia AND, when the stars are aligned,The Beguiling Big Island of Hawaii
A happy cooker, eater, drinker, writer and webber with flip-flopped feet firmly planted in the enchanting forests of the beautiful Okanagan, and a spirit that is home-sweet-home and forever frolicking in the delicious Aloha of the gorgeous Hawaiian Islands. Gloriously content with the knowledge that when making a batch of wontons the first wonton is a bit of an awkward struggle and last wonton in all it's picture perfect deliciousness is made with easy finesse. And a quiet Ta! Da!
Interests: Italian menus, Mexican ingredients, Greek dinners, Asian appies, Hawaiian desserts, old fashioned English roast beef lunches, Japanese bento boxes, Okanagan dinner parties, ingredients that grow, food that makes you sigh happy. Wanderlust. And music, music, music.......
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CHEESY LITTLE BAKED MEATBALLS
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Tender, spicy, little meatballs baked in tomato sauce and a pool of luscious, molten cheesy goodness. Where's the spaghetti? ♪♫♥ On top of spaghetti All covered with cheese Just plop all the meatballs Oh yes, please, please, please. ♪♫♥ This one is fun to serve, and fun to make. Easy... Continue reading
Posted Jul 29, 2017 at THE LAST WONTON
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KOREAN BEEF RICE BOWL
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Tender, tasty, marinated Korean style beef stir-fried with a bunch of deliciously fresh veggies, plopped atop a little heap of hot steamed rice. Yum! TOP TEN REASONS TO MAKE KOREAN BEEF RICE BOWLS 10. Clean up is super easy - one bowl and pair of chopsticks, per person. 9. Beef... Continue reading
Posted Jul 23, 2017 at THE LAST WONTON
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AVOCADO CHIMICHURRI for Grilled Steak
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Fresh herby, tangy avocado sauce begging to be swooped over juicy, hot-from-the-grill steaks. Mahvelous merger. Avocado Chimichurri..... It's fast. It's easy. It's green. It's sunshiney. It's all tangy and creamy. It's madly in love with tender, juicy, grilled steak. It's packing a punch of flavours. It's softly whispering of spicy... Continue reading
Posted Jul 23, 2017 at THE LAST WONTON
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SMASHED CHEESEBURGERS
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Rich, crusty brown outtards, juicy innards, melty cheese in between. Deliciously beguiling. Beguiling burger patties = Damn good cheeseburger! This isn't really a recipe, but a 'way'. A way to reap results that will make you softly exclaim, "Ohmygawdthatsgood!" A means to an end. Cause and effect. Chain of circumstances.... Continue reading
Posted Jul 13, 2017 at THE LAST WONTON
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BEER-BATTERED ONION RINGS with Dunkeroo
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Crispy, crunchy, golden brown, retro deliciousness. Indulge! Wikipedia states: "The exact origins of the onion ring are unknown, but in 1933 a recipe for deep-fried onion rings that are dipped in milk, then dredged in flour appeared in a Crisco advertisement in The New York Times Magazine" Seems they caught... Continue reading
Posted Jul 11, 2017 at THE LAST WONTON
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BEEF SATAY SKEWERS with Cheaters' Peanut Sauce
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Hot Sticks! Get your Hot Sticks, here! Hot off the barbie, that is. Touting sublime, slightly spicy, tangy, tender, grilled steak slices. TOP TEN REASONS TO MAKE BEEF SATAY SKEWERS WITH CHEATERS' PEANUT SAUCE 10. They're easy to make and easy to eat. 9. Satay rhymes with cachet. 8. You... Continue reading
Posted Jun 29, 2017 at THE LAST WONTON
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BUCATINI all'AMATRICIANA
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Quick and easy! Perfectly al dente bucatini cloaked in a timeless tomato sauce, dishing up a little kick of heat, and simple medley of classic flavours. Mangia tutti! One of my fave weekly errands is to hit Valoroso, one of the Okanagan's best Italian deli-grocery stores, to gather all the... Continue reading
Posted Jun 27, 2017 at THE LAST WONTON
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AUNTIE ALICE'S SLAB COOKIES
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Deliciously crunchy and buttery, boasting butterscotch chips, milk chocolate chips and semi-sweet chocolate chips. Ever remember the first time you tasted something? I do. ....It was a beautiful Okanagan summer morning. I was contentedly basking in the warmth of the sun, and the warmth of being at my favorite aunt... Continue reading
Posted Jun 26, 2017 at THE LAST WONTON
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BROWN BUTTER RICE KRISPIE TREATS
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Nostalgic, sticky treats, amped up with nutty browned butter and sea salt. HEL-LOH, my salt-kissed sweetness! What sorcery is this? This is sweet, salty, nutty, sticky, soft, retro, irresistible, sorcery. And that's a fact, Jack! The teensy weensy little detail of browning the butter and tossing in just a spurt... Continue reading
Posted Jun 19, 2017 at THE LAST WONTON
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Grilled Steak with Onion Blue Cheese Sauce
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Perfectly grilled steak plunked atop a rich, creamy, caramelized onion riddled, blue cheese tang-ed puddle of goodness. Rahther luscious. I do so like blue cheese and steak. I do so like them, for Pete's sake. Would you eat them on the docks? Would you eat them with a fox? Down... Continue reading
Posted Jun 17, 2017 at THE LAST WONTON
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BAKED POTATOES WITH WHIPPED FETA
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Crusty outtards, fluffy innards, baked potatoes topped with tangy, buttery, soft delicious muddles of feta. One potato, two potato, three potato, more.....please. What is it about baked potatoes? They're nothing special, but they're always so good, or they just hit the spot, perfectly, and they carry our cravings off to... Continue reading
Posted Jun 16, 2017 at THE LAST WONTON
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BLUEBERRY SHORTBREAD CRUMBLE
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Melt-in-your-mouth shortbread crust. Check! Juicy, sweet, fresh blueberry filling. Check! Golden, crunchy, buttery, crown. Check! An oft quoted line from Ralph Waldo Emerson's poem, Hamatreya states the "Earth laughs in flowers." I've always, always, liked the feeling of this thought. No matter when, or how often, I come across these... Continue reading
Posted Jun 15, 2017 at THE LAST WONTON
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SPICY AVOCADO DRESSING
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A versatile dressing that buzzes up all cool and creamy, spice-ay and tangy! TOP TEN REASONS TO MAKE SPICY AVOCADO DRESSING 10. It's the same colour as the forest in springtime. 9. Provides yet another reason to give a shout-out of gratitude to avocado farmers everywhere. 8. Avocado and lime... Continue reading
Posted Jun 11, 2017 at THE LAST WONTON
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STRAWBERRY SUMMER CAKE
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Lightly crusted, golden, moist cake, overwhelmed by fresh strawberries that transform into plush pockets of sassy berryness, as they bake. How could this dessert not taste like summer? An easy peasy, tasty-as-heck, little cake touting a full pound of fresh strawberries. I scoop and smooth the batter into the prepared... Continue reading
Posted Jun 9, 2017 at THE LAST WONTON
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SAUCY NACHOS WITH P-P-P-PEPPERED QUESO
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A luscious, silky, saucy cheese touting beguiling amounts of poblano, jalapeno, green chilies, black pepper and fresh tomato, swooped over warm-from-the-oven tortilla chips. Gutsy, spicy, brazen! We eat a lot of nachos at our house. Always have. Nachos kind of sum up all those Mexican flavours and textures and spiciness,... Continue reading
Posted Jun 5, 2017 at THE LAST WONTON
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FOOLPROOF BARBECUE RIBS
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Slide-off-the-bone tender, moist, deeply delicious ribs, swathed in a tangy, robust, lip-smackingly addictive barbecue sauce. The glorious make-ahead secret to these more-please ribs is cooking them in the oven first. Eureka! And then, Ta Da! firing up the grill to ensure a good schwack of those crusty, darkly tasty, edges.... Continue reading
Posted Jun 2, 2017 at THE LAST WONTON
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WICKED HOMEMADE BARBECUE SAUCE
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Plump with tangy, sweet, salty, spicy perfection. This sauce is wickedly good! Wicked ~ awesome, excellent, cool, amazing. Seriously, this sauce is all of those things. I wholeheartedly admit I've never before waxed poetic about barbecue sauce. Uh uh. And didn't count on it happening. But Ina changed all that.... Continue reading
Posted Jun 1, 2017 at THE LAST WONTON
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Splendid Little Avocado Cucumber Salad
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A fresh muddle of cool, crunchy cucumber and silky soft, buttery avocado, draped in a tangy dressing with a wee kick. We would so like them anywhere. We do so like fresh lime and Tabasco. We do so like them, they are fab. We would so eat them in our... Continue reading
Posted Jun 1, 2017 at THE LAST WONTON
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BLUEBERRY BOY BAIT
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A crumbly, moist, rich, butter cake, riddled with fresh blueberries, boasting a divinely crunchy cinnamon sugar top crust. Is it for breakfast? Or dessert? Yes, absolutely. The name stopped me in my browsing tracks before I even knew what manner of 'food' I was about to see. And then.......a tender... Continue reading
Posted May 31, 2017 at THE LAST WONTON
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Strawberry Cheesecake Ice Cream Pie
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A creamy jumble of rich little nibbles of cheesecake and dreamy, old-fashioned strawberry ice cream, topped with fresh berries. Slice of summer, anyone? Hot diggety dog! It's almost summer! Lots of long, hot, sunny afternoons have already laid their glories upon us. Feelin' good, feelin' fine! ♪♫♥ Roll out those... Continue reading
Posted May 29, 2017 at THE LAST WONTON
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TUSCAN RICE AND CUSTARD TORTA
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Brandy laced, golden topped, creamy baked custard sits magically upon a layer of soft rice muddled with more custard. A firm creme caramel and a rice pudding walk into a bar......in Tuscany..... This is not your Nonna's rice pudding! Oh wait a minute.......maybe it is. It is likely indeed that... Continue reading
Posted May 23, 2017 at THE LAST WONTON
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Camarón Rebosada with Mango Pineapple Sauce
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Plump, fresh prawns lightly battered and quickly deep fried to golden, light, crispy perfection. We serve this Filipino version of tempura with a tangy, sweet and sour sauce boasting fresh mango and pineapple, and a little kick from a Thai chile. Crispy, crunchy, succulent, sweet and heat. Masarap! This staple... Continue reading
Posted May 18, 2017 at THE LAST WONTON
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CLASSIC BLUEBERRY PIE
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Rich, golden brown, flaky crust gives way to deep, dark, delicious berryness. Yes. Yes, please! I couldn't wait. I just couldn't wait, for berry season. Some things are worth jumping the gun for. Blueberry Pie is definitely one of those things. Well, for us, it is. There are pie people... Continue reading
Posted May 17, 2017 at THE LAST WONTON
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DAMN GOOD ITTY BITTY SLIDER BUNS
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Cute little, golden brown, buttery crusted buns with just enough poof and just enough bite, that simply beg to be slidered! ♪♫ I like little buns, and I cannot lie. Yay, for me! I no longer have slider bun envy. These babies turned out exactly as I had hoped, and... Continue reading
Posted May 16, 2017 at THE LAST WONTON
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CHICKEN FRIED STEAK
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Crispy, crunchy, tender juicy, beefy goodness, touting enough of all the right spices, to deliver a gleeful pow of flavour flavour. Forest Grump mentioned, or more reminded me, that he was really craving some old-fashioned fried chicken. And he's been ever so patient waiting for me to be in the... Continue reading
Posted May 13, 2017 at THE LAST WONTON
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