by Wanda | Mar 15, 2012 | Recipes, Recipes extras
Husband came down with a fluish cold this week. He must have been Portuguese in another life, because he’ll eat soup any day for any meal, in sickness and in health. But he especially craves it when he’s sick. So I reached back into the comforting past, to...
by Wanda | Jan 4, 2012 | Recipes, Recipes extras
Hekka is a dish you no longer hear of or see very often, even though chopped, across-the-bone cuts of chicken are still called “hekka chicken” at some Foodland stores. A few years ago, chef Mark Noguchi and I went on a mission to find out where the name hekka came...
by Wanda | Dec 13, 2011 | Recipes, Recipes extras
Kala mai. Desculpe.. Mi dispiace. Je suis désolé(e). Gomennasai. Pasensya ka na. .I’m sorry. That finger-blender accident turned out to be a more intrusive deal than I thought it would be. The wound healed quickly but there are scars and hardening that make...
by Wanda | Aug 21, 2011 | Recipes, Recipes extras
Before I tell you how my beef stew experiment came out, a few words about my approach to the dish. As I noted yesterday, my stew is very plain: beef, potatoes, that’s about it. Occasionally, I’ll get fancy and use another starch besides potatoes: chayote...
by Wanda | Jul 11, 2011 | Recipes, Recipes extras
Tomorrow: Mango salsa. Dinner was a local leftover bonanza the other night: laulau that our neighbor made, take-home from a dim sum lunch earlier in the day, the mac-and-potato salad I made too much of last weekend. Whew! On the Fourth of July, we were sitting in the...
