Friendship and fresh pizza

Friendship and fresh pizza

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 say a word or two...

Nihon no Yoru (Night in Japan)

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 rarely cook Asian food—I went...

Another few words about chico…and pictures!

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 fresh fruit, only fruit that...

Not just for chewing gum anymore

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 now being...