When its 75 degrees F by 7:30 a.m., that's a warm day, no matter how you slice it. At the Hilo Farmer's Market, it really is "from dawn 'til it's gone" and the vendors carry mostly the same varieties of produce -- apple bananas, papayas, Japanese cucumbers, tomatoes. A few tables have prepared food, including…
The best malasadas on the Big Island ...
Tex Drive In -- Honoka'a, HI (only when they're hot)
Punalu'u Bakery -- Na'alehu, HI (made w/ their Hawaiian sweet bread dough)
L-R: traditional, liliko'i glazed, Bavarian cream filled
Our meals out on this trip to Hawaii were usually lunches. At Sombat's we ordered our usual Thai food staples -- spring rolls, green curry w/ chicken, pad thai w/ chicken. Spring rolls were hot out of the fryer and not greasy in the least. That's a pineapple mac nut dipping sauce (c'mon, it's Hawai'i!)
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Right about now, we're all waiting for the English peas to come in. What's pasta primavera without fresh English peas? For the last couple of weeks tho, sugar snaps have been holding down the fort. I wasn't even sure if I really liked sugar snap peas when I picked up a batch last weekend at…
I'll just say it - I'm so over the cafeteria at work. Everyday I walk from station to station - Chinese? Eh, no Panda Express knock off today. Specialty salad? Nah. International station (could be Indian, could be burrito day, or just a couple of slices of pork loin with potatoes and veggies). Nah. Sandwich?…
As everyone knows, pudding comes in a box with a 5-letter logo starting w/ the letter 'J'. Except when you go to your cupboard and there's no box. Wha- what? No box? Oh man, I'm *not* going to the store, just for pudding. And not just cause gas is $3.50 a gallon.
Wait, wasn't there a…
Fried rice falls into the "Grandma food" category -- aka dishes that came from my Grandma that you have no hope of ever getting an actual, exact written recipe. It's not a new phenomenon - every family seems to have a dish that you can't pinpoint why it comes out so wonderfully when your [INSERT…
Thanks to Alton Brown, I just learned that corned beef and cabbage actually has nothing to do with the Irish from Ireland and is more likely an Irish-American invented dish borrowed from Jewish Americans...hence how NY delis turn out tasty corned beef on rye that few others can match.
Anyway, the big question about corned beef…