by Wanda | Feb 16, 2012 | Recipes, Recipes extras
Spent a long weekend on Maui, which explains the blog-less days of last week. My mother’s home is Internet-free. Every time I go there, I suffer severe withdrawal, though not quite severe enough to send me to Starbucks (or Wailuku Coffee Co.) every day. Best...
by Wanda | Feb 15, 2012 | Recipes, Recipes extras
Boy was I proud of myself on Valentine’s Day! For a while, anyway. I planned a red main dish: Indian butter chicken, which has a tomato-based sauce, accompanied by cardamom rice (1 cup long grain rice, steamed with 2 cups water, a tablespoon of ground cardamom...
by Wanda | Feb 3, 2012 | Recipes, Recipes extras
OOOOPS! I thought I posted this Thursday night. So here it is!… PLEASE NOTE: I posted twice today — see the one before this if you like caramel and butterscotch! Having savored a melting misoyaki butterfish on the Valley Isle, I wanted to check out the Honolulu...
by Wanda | Jan 27, 2012 | Recipes, Recipes extras
The men in my family — both on the Portuguese and the English-Irish sides — are enthusiastic storytellers who love nothing better than to capture others’ attention, catch them by surprise or even amaze them. My cousin Anthony, 84, a retired Advertiser printer...
by Wanda | Jan 26, 2012 | Recipes, Recipes extras
I’ve been wandering many recipe roads in the past few days: researching school-days dishes from the ’40s-’70s, brainstorming a cooking course I’ll be helping with at Grand Cafe & Bakery in March that will include some homey, old-style...
