by Wanda | Mar 16, 2012 | Recipes, Recipes extras
A productive morning. My favorite kind: Doing something I want to do. After a rare sleep-in (9 a.m.!), I made sick husband an omelette and tackled a project that’s been nagging at me for a week. I had scored a huge bowl full of tangerines from my cousin’s...
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 27, 2011 | Recipes, Recipes extras
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...
by Wanda | Dec 18, 2011 | Recipes, Recipes extras
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...
by Wanda | Oct 4, 2011 | Recipes, Recipes extras
The other day, our hanai son was visiting to be with his sister and the twins, who are living with us temporarily. (Have I mentioned this? Have I mentioned this repeatedly ad nauseum? Am I all about the twins? Do I spend half my day changing, playing, feeding,...
