by Wanda | May 11, 2012 | Recipes, Recipes extras
What has kept me from blogging? Busy, yes. Tired, yes, yes. Traveling, yes, yes. Not cooking as much as I usually do, definitely. I think I was writing so much for other media, I just…ran out. Nothing left. Pau ka hana (the work is finished), my Grandma would...
by Wanda | Mar 13, 2012 | Recipes, Recipes extras
Well, that’s how it feels, anyway. My tiny sidewalk garden is growing: a couple of cuke plants, tomatoes just a few weeks old that already need transplanting yet again, a gaggle of miniscule carrot tops and a windowbox of mesclun-style greens. Got some worm poop...
by Wanda | Feb 26, 2012 | Recipes, Recipes extras
Shine a “lite” on this: There’s a brand of lower fat mayonnaise that actually tastes like the real thing. It’s Duke’s, which rules in the South the way Best Foods rules here. You have to mail-order it, but that’s not too onerous if...
by Wanda | Jan 6, 2012 | Recipes, Recipes extras
Top two reasons to eat fresh-from-the-ground produce? Ask Alan Joaquin, president of FarmRoof, a young firm dedicated to making farm-fresh produce available for O’ahu residents. He’ll tell you that the nutrient density of just-harvested vegetables is...
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...
