by Wanda | Jun 5, 2017 | Ideas and food lore, Island foodways, Recipes
Is this you? If so, you just might be a local. Whenever you cook, you cook too much. There’s a rice cooker on your counter....
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 | 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 | Jul 11, 2011 | Recipes, Recipes extras
Tomorrow: Mango salsa. Dinner was a local leftover bonanza the other night: laulau that our neighbor made, take-home from a dim sum lunch earlier in the day, the mac-and-potato salad I made too much of last weekend. Whew! On the Fourth of July, we were sitting in the...
