Bloggin’, oooooh, baby, I’m a bloggin’ on home…

Bloggin’, oooooh, baby, I’m a bloggin’ on home…

I'm so happy to be back in blogspace even if dealing with technology affects me about like aspirin does my allergic husband: I turn red, swell up and say bad words. I've spent the last few days playing with calamansi (Philippines lime, tiny little mini-citrus that...

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Tandoori — you spice up my life

Tandoori — you spice up my life

I love tandoori and even without the traditional oven, I can concoct a spice mixture that passes for the real thing. Husband and I ate tandoori for days recently while I experimented — with a little help from Ka’iulani Spices. This Honolulu-based...

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Does your kitchen say aloha?

Does your kitchen say aloha?

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....

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Of cornbread and cookbooks, persimmons and pretty places

Of cornbread and cookbooks, persimmons and pretty places

Would you believe my computer crashed some weeks ago and I lost my admin password? How about the dog ate my homework? No, really, I did lose my computer. Four words for you from my excruciating experience of losing two years' worth of work and pictures: Exterior hard...

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Friendship and fresh pizza

Friendship and fresh pizza

I love custom-made pizzas and I love my friend Elizabeth. I especially love it when the two are in the same room. I owe a lot to Elizabeth, including a recipe for made-from-scratch pizza that I've been playing with. But first, I just have to say a word or two about...

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And the cookbook most likely to sit unsold is…

At the Friends of the Library Book Sale, where I've been helping with food for the hard-working volunteers, I made a careful reconnaissance of the cookbook area before we opened on Friday, and then another today. I had two objectives: To see if anybody bought the...

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Nihon no Yoru (Night in Japan)

I wish I could show you the meal I made tonight when my husband's new BFF and his wife came to dinner. But, well, we did it again: ate before shooting. Ex cept for one dish, the onigiri (musubi rice balls) above. For some reason—I rarely cook Asian food—I went in a...

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Another few words about chico…and pictures!

Husband has rescued one of the two pots that got chewing gummed in the previous blog about using chico fruit. I found the chico pix and am mounting  a couple so you can see it. Since the latex release didn't happen when I used the fresh fruit, only fruit that had been...

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Not just for chewing gum anymore

Somehow, I’ve been roped into doing a cooking demo at Whole Foods Kailua in August (date pending) featuring tropical fruit. My good friend Ken Love is in charge of a project to encourage grocery stores to stock some of the more exotic tropical fruit that’s now being...

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