by Wanda | Jun 15, 2017 | Recipes
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...
by Wanda | Jun 9, 2017 | Ideas and food lore, Island foodways, Recipes, Tips
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...
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 | Sep 1, 2012 | Recipes, Recipes extras
Can a person hold down a part-time job, freelance for a half-dozen writing/editing clients, work on a cookbook, engage in volunteer projects aid their ailing mother and keep up a household AND a blog? If that person is me, apparently not! It’s been such a busy...
by Wanda | Jun 24, 2012 | Recipes
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...
by Wanda | Jun 9, 2012 | Recipes, Recipes extras
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...
