Interfacebooking on mangos
My husband, who rarely gets involved in my cooking adventures, facebooked me yesterday requesting a recipe for mango butter. I guess this is how people communicate in marriages these days. I've got a guava butter recipe that I think can be readily converted. I'll give...
More mangoes?
Chef Hector Wong will be demonstrating mango cake expertise in the final demonstration, 3 p.m. at the Mangos at the Moana event Aug. 7 at the Moana-Surfrider Hotel, a Westin Resort & Spa. Doesn't this look DELICIOUS? He makes cupcakes and mini roses for larger...
Go for those mango recipes…
Hey, mango lovers. Here's everything you need to know about Mangoes at the Moana and about the upcoming recipe contest. Dust off your best mango recipes — or your most beautiful and delicious homemade mangoes so you can win cool prizes. The Second Annual Mangoes at...
Valley Isle viands…
Headed Maui way or know a visitor who is? Check out this new service. My food-savvy friend (the one with whom I traveled to Venice a couple of times), Bonnie Friedman, has added a new service to her culinary tour company, Tour Da Food Maui. It's called "Cuisine...
Tip: Measuring flour
Here's a tip: When you're measuring flour, start by emptying the bag of flour into a roomy container with several inches room at the top; store the flour in that container. Before measuring, use a cup measure or a whisk to fluff and stir the flour so it's not packed...
Cooking, what’s that?
I've been so scattered lately that cooking has gone south. I haven't made a decent dinner in days! Miss it. But getting started on various new projects and a part-time job, plus having a very bad cold last weekend (not so happy Fourth of July) has had me down. Coming...
Why is it always humid on baking day? And other complaints…
Spent a couple of hours trying to master a recipe involving pie crust yesterday and it wasn't pretty. Still, we — two girlfriends and I — learned a lot. We were trying to make a mango manju I plan to demonstrate at the upcoming Mangoes at the Moana event (manju is a...
An amuse bouche for chocolate-loving cooks
An amuse bouche is literally an amusement for the mouth, a little bite of something in advance of the meal. Here's a peek at working with chocolate, a piece that didn't make it into my story on local cacao and chocolate appearing July 7 in the Star Advertiser. Melanie...
The cutting edge
When you're cutting something odd-shaped into small squares, such as a potato or a chicken breast, first slice it lengthwise into the desired thickess. Stack these slices. Then cut lengthwise down through the slices to make a stack of long strips. Keep the strips...
Waste not . . .
After a week of making sandwiches for volunteer lunches at the Friends of the Library book sale, I had a sackful of bread ends I'd stashed and the obvious thing to do was bread pudding, an Island favorite. Bread pudding is one of those dishes with infinite variations...