by Wanda | Jul 31, 2011 | Recipes, Recipes extras
WAILUKU, Maui — For me, every weekend spent on my home island of Maui means a Saturday morning at the Maui Swap Meet (now on the grounds of Maui Community College; mauiexposition.com). There’s not much of the original swap meet character left at this sprawling weekly...
by Wanda | Jul 30, 2011 | Recipes, Recipes extras
You know what I don’t understand? Why they can’t invent a stove that will stay clean (and don’t even get me started on the oven). Earlier this week, I helped a friend clean house, among other things scrubbing her glass-top stove. I was so envious a...
by Wanda | Jul 29, 2011 | Recipes, Recipes extras
Fresh from commuting 35-plus miles a day in Seattle, teaching two nights a week in Tacoma (another hour or so on the road), reporting stories that took me all over Western Washington, I would protest, “But it’s only 8 miles.” Twenty one years later,...
by Wanda | Jul 28, 2011 | Recipes, Recipes extras
How recipes come into being in real life. I was watching an old “Real Housewives of New Jersey” set during a family Christmas at the Manzo house and heard the charming story of how Caroline Manzo’s father concocted a special dish from pantry staples...
by Wanda | Jul 27, 2011 | Recipes, Recipes extras
Daunted by the eye-popping price of artisanal whole grain breads, and missing the regular bread-baking I used to do when I lived in Seattle, I decide to try the “Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day” method, a one-container method in which dough is mixed in...
by Wanda | Jul 26, 2011 | Recipes, Recipes extras
A reader asked if I could get the recipe for the Bird Bars sold at Down to Earth and I promised I’d try. But I gotta be honest: I can’t take any of the credit for the recipe that follows. Here’s what happened: I went to Down to Earth, bought a couple...
