by Wanda | Jan 11, 2012 | Recipes, Recipes extras
I couldn’t blog yesterday not only because I was busy but because I had just too sad a story to tell. “Joy of Cooking” let me down. You may recall I made a lemon meringue pie for Husband, his favorite. This giant pie involved 8 eggs and was a Mess...
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 22, 2011 | Recipes, Recipes extras
I’m trying to think of something new to say about how cool it is to be around food and cooks, around elders and storytellers. That’s been my life for the past few days. I’ve spent a lot of time with family and food always flows into the conversation...
by Wanda | Dec 20, 2011 | Recipes, Recipes extras
Today was a garden day at my cousin’s home in Kane’ohe. I’m the black thumb of the family (probably the black sheep, too, but that’s another story). If I so much as look too long at a plant it begins to droop or it develops a bad case of aphids...
