See Jane eat saimin. No, wait, that was me, at Jane’s.
Today I did something I've been meaning to do for years. I live just minutes from Liliha Street and drive by Jane's Fountain almost every day but I never have time to stop. Today, having completed all my responsibilities, I had the first free afternoon I've had in...
Another thing I know for sure . . .
I spent some time with my 16-year-old grandniece recently and marveled at how much she knew that I didn't. She talked of books, TV shows, movies, actors, technology, apps, even developments in journalism since I left the stone age of print reporting two years ago,...
A different kind of sustenance: story
Yesterday featured an event I'd been looking forward to — an annual girls luncheon with my three best friends on Oahu, and with one of their mothers, who turned 82. We started at 11:30 a.m. and I got home at 5. Had to miss a second party because I was too tired! And...
Hope Yule have a great year!
Perhaps the most spare Christmas I've ever had has been one of the best: breakfast with Husband, a rockin' Christmas service at Hope Chapel Kane'ohe, cooking all day (jook for a sick friend plus our modest Christmas dinner), takin' care of business. When all of us...
At the pier’s end . . . paradise in a plate lunch
So my girlfriend Susan and I plan a pleasant girls' Christmas lunch and it turns into . . . a pa'ina (feast). I'm working on a story about eating local but more healthfully and my editor suggested I call chef Mark Noguchi, co-owner of He'eia Kea Pier General Store...
With apologies to Foodland, but “Food, Family & Friends”
I'm trying to think of something new to say about how cool it is to be around food and cooks, around elders and storytellers. That's been my life for the past few days. I've spent a lot of time with family and food always flows into the conversation somewhere. (Or...
Gardening day in Kane’ohe
Today was a garden day at my cousin's home in Kane'ohe. I'm the black thumb of the family (probably the black sheep, too, but that's another story). If I so much as look too long at a plant it begins to droop or it develops a bad case of aphids or becomes a magnet for...
Gimpy fingers but good news
Kala mai: In the Portuguese Pupu recipe a couple of posts back, I neglected to say when to put the garlic in (some people would say anytime and often!). The recipe has been corrected now. I've learned to downsize pix so pix will be returning. My injured fingers are...
The best, easiest grilled chicken EVER!
What adventures I've been having: Went to a party at the home of a Samoan family members of a large clan named Maae,, in Kaneohe; my son works with one of the family members, Josh. The food was the usual Island-style potluck: grilled chicken, hot dogs, meat sauce from...
A Portuguese pupu for those who like some spice
This is the recipe that got raves yesterday at a photo shoot from photographer and chef Adriana Torres-Chong. I've copied it here from the manuscript of the book it will be in called "A Splash of Aloha," coming out from KCC via Watermark Publishing this spring. Auwe!...