by Wanda | Feb 3, 2012 | Recipes, Recipes extras
OOOOPS! I thought I posted this Thursday night. So here it is!… PLEASE NOTE: I posted twice today — see the one before this if you like caramel and butterscotch! Having savored a melting misoyaki butterfish on the Valley Isle, I wanted to check out the Honolulu...
by Wanda | Sep 25, 2011 | Recipes, Recipes extras
A reader wrote to ask for a recipe for salted eggs. I was skeptical, assuming there was some arcane trick to it involving strange ingredients, like that potassium carbonate stuff you need to make steamed rice cake. Not so. A 1978 book from my collection,...
by Wanda | Jul 24, 2011 | Recipes, Recipes extras
I’ve been going to bon dances for years — in Seattle’s International District, when I lived in the Northwest, on Maui, and here. But Friday night, I saw a new side to the obon season. Several new sides. Husband and I joined a trio of friends who are bon...
by Wanda | Jul 18, 2011 | Recipes, Recipes extras
Honolulu has had a dearth of cozy sit-down restaurants where the food is reliably good and the prices not too pain-inducing — what are called in other cities “neighborhood” restaurants (this to differentiate them from “destination”...
by Wanda | Jul 16, 2011 | Recipes, Recipes extras
Though I’m an enthusiastic meat eater, a really well prepared vegetarian meals makes me entirely happy. And I’m in awe of a skilled vegan chef. Two vegan restaurants just down South King Street from each other have been calling my name for a while, so I...
