by Wanda | Nov 7, 2011 | Recipes, Recipes extras
Oh, happy day…Oh happy day! Today, I got a visit from a dear friend from Hilo (besides my own home Maui my FAVORITE island place) and, after I gave her the strawberry mochi from Fujiya, we talked about so many things that come from the na’au. (The gut, the...
by Wanda | Oct 18, 2011 | Recipes, Recipes extras
I’m on the Big Island doing some volunteer work. And I’m in foodie hell. I have no kitchen to cook in, very little money for dining out and I’m gaining weight so I shouldn’t eat. But, oh the temptations… I had to drive today from Kona to...
by Wanda | Aug 5, 2011 | Recipes, Recipes extras
WAILUKU, Maui — Day 1 of my Maui interlude, I bought two large jars of pickles. Glass jars. Full of liquid. One of them contains beets, guaranteed to stain every darn thing in my suitcase if it cracks open. Today, as I ready to head home, I’m staring at the jars now...
by Wanda | Jul 22, 2011 | Recipes, Recipes extras
The highest accolade one food writer can offer another is “I wish I had written that.” So it was that Wednesday, sitting over my butter- and cream cheese-slathered bialy at This is It Deli on Cooke Street, I began mumbling curses when I saw in the Star-Advertiser...
by Wanda | Jul 31, 2010 | Recipes, Recipes extras
Funny thing about getting laid off. You’re suddenly busier than you ever were when you had a job. I’ve heard this from every one of my former Advertiser colleagues. You’re suddenly hussling so hard to get work, volunteering (or being volunteered)...
