I’m so happy to be back in blogspace even if dealing with technology affects me about like aspirin does my allergic husband: I turn red, swell up and say bad words. I’ve spent the last few days playing with calamansi (Philippines lime, tiny little mini-citrus […]
I love tandoori and even without the traditional oven, I can concoct a spice mixture that passes for the real thing. Husband and I ate tandoori for days recently while I experimented — with a little help from Ka’iulani Spices. This Honolulu-based spice-blending company, owned by my […]
Is this you? If so, you just might be a local. Whenever you cook, you cook too much. There’s a rice cooker on your counter. When it’s time to cook, you wash the rice. Because there’s always rice. You put small-kine […]
Would you believe my computer crashed some weeks ago and I lost my admin password? How about the dog ate my homework? No, really, I did lose my computer. Four words for you from my excruciating experience of losing two years’ worth of work and […]
Can a person hold down a part-time job, freelance for a half-dozen writing/editing clients, work on a cookbook, engage in volunteer projects aid their ailing mother and keep up a household AND a blog? If that person is me, apparently not! It’s been such a […]
I love custom-made pizzas and I love my friend Elizabeth. I especially love it when the two are in the same room. I owe a lot to Elizabeth, including a recipe for made-from-scratch pizza that I’ve been playing with. But first, I just have to […]
At the Friends of the Library Book Sale, where I’ve been helping with food for the hard-working volunteers, I made a careful reconnaissance of the cookbook area before we opened on Friday, and then another today. I had two objectives: To see if anybody bought […]
I wish I could show you the meal I made tonight when my husband’s new BFF and his wife came to dinner. But, well, we did it again: ate before shooting. Ex cept for one dish, the onigiri (musubi rice balls) above. For some reason—I […]
Husband has rescued one of the two pots that got chewing gummed in the previous blog about using chico fruit. I found the chico pix and am mounting a couple so you can see it. Since the latex release didn’t happen when I used the […]
Somehow, I’ve been roped into doing a cooking demo at Whole Foods Kailua in August (date pending) featuring tropical fruit. My good friend Ken Love is in charge of a project to encourage grocery stores to stock some of the more exotic tropical fruit that’s […]
