by Wanda | Dec 23, 2011 | Recipes, Recipes extras
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...
by Wanda | Nov 7, 2011 | Recipes, Recipes extras
Oh, happy day…Oh happy day! Today, I got a visit from a dear friend from Hilo (besides my own home Maui my FAVORITE island place) and, after I gave her the strawberry mochi from Fujiya, we talked about so many things that come from the na’au. (The gut, the...
by Wanda | Oct 18, 2011 | Recipes, Recipes extras
I’m on the Big Island doing some volunteer work. And I’m in foodie hell. I have no kitchen to cook in, very little money for dining out and I’m gaining weight so I shouldn’t eat. But, oh the temptations… I had to drive today from Kona to...
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 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,...
