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 21, 2011 | Recipes, Recipes extras
Yes, that’s a watermelon and we’ll get to that topic but, first, we’re going to turn back to cobblers for a minute. I’ve updated Wednesday’s posting with pictures of the skillet cobbler technique. And I’ve got a few words of wisdom:...
by Wanda | Jul 20, 2011 | Recipes, Recipes extras
I have a screen saver that scrolls through my photos and presents them — family, friends, events and, of course, meals eaten and recipes made — fading in and out. Last night, idly watching, I saw a whole fish swim (sorry! couldn’t resist) into view, gracefully...
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”...
