by Wanda | Dec 25, 2011 | Recipes, Recipes extras
Perhaps the most spare Christmas I’ve ever had has been one of the best: breakfast with Husband, a rockin’ Christmas service at Hope Chapel Kane’ohe, cooking all day (jook for a sick friend plus our modest Christmas dinner), takin’ care of...
by Wanda | Aug 1, 2011 | Recipes, Recipes extras
WAILUKU, Maui — I never want to eat again. Well, until the Kula strawberries are properly chilled for dessert. I’ve spent two days on Maui. Eating. Seeing family. Eating. Seeing friends. Eating. Besides Saturday morning at the Swap Meet: Bistro Casanova. Friday, lunch...
by Wanda | Jun 26, 2011 | Recipes, Recipes extras
Tomorrow: Discovering a new food “neighborhood,” Yataimura at Shirokiya. Coming up: A foodie friendship. An Island-only recipe for bread pudding. Fish soup that’ll change your mind. Restaurant ordering: the one unbreakable rule. March? Was it really...
by Wanda | Jan 30, 2011 | Recipes, Recipes extras
We had a “Moonstruck” breakfast Saturday morning — a dish I saw in that 1987 Norman Jewison romantic comedy. You fry some bread, break an egg in the center and pair it with a sliver of stewed tomato. I’ve since learned there are as many versions of...
by Wanda | Jan 9, 2011 | Recipes, Recipes extras
I’m still all about oat bars; sorry, I go through these phases . . . Yesterday, just before running out the door to go to Alan Wong’s book signing at Barnes & Noble, I threw together some pineapple and macadamia nut oat bars, one of the variations I...