by Wanda | Jan 10, 2011 | Recipes, Recipes extras
In a recent conversation with chef Alan Wong of Alan Wong’s restaurant and The Pineapple Room, I learned that one of his teaching techniques is to have the kitchen staffs take a twice-yearly test on culinary matters. Throughout the year, Wong and senior staff...
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...
by Wanda | Jan 1, 2011 | Recipes, Recipes extras
Made a quick trip to Maui to visit my mom and my ailing sister (prayers shamelessly solicited for healing there) day before yesterday. Mom and I went to dinner at Cafe O’Lei in Wailuku. Her choice. I’d always avoided O’Lei because it sounded like...
by Wanda | Dec 24, 2010 | Recipes, Recipes extras
All I want for Christmas . . . is something I can never have. I want Grandma (Grandpa, too). Grandma as she was before Alzheimer’s sent her careening backward in age, staring for hours in apparent surprise at her outstretched hands, as a baby will do. She would...
