by Wanda | Jul 27, 2011 | Recipes, Recipes extras
Daunted by the eye-popping price of artisanal whole grain breads, and missing the regular bread-baking I used to do when I lived in Seattle, I decide to try the “Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day” method, a one-container method in which dough is mixed in...
by Wanda | Jul 23, 2011 | Recipes, Recipes extras
A journalism friend used to describe the daily pressure to fill the newspaper as “feeding the beast.” Some days, as today, this blog feels a bit like an insatiable animal (very like my cat, Precious). So I fall back on random musings. Musing 1: Have you...
by Wanda | Jul 22, 2011 | Recipes, Recipes extras
The highest accolade one food writer can offer another is “I wish I had written that.” So it was that Wednesday, sitting over my butter- and cream cheese-slathered bialy at This is It Deli on Cooke Street, I began mumbling curses when I saw in the Star-Advertiser...
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 17, 2011 | Recipes, Recipes extras
The Web can be your best friend when you’re looking for a recipe. Or it can resemble a movie trailer that promises something it can’t deliver. I had both experiences Thursday when I was in mission mode, trying to re-create two dishes that recently...