Chinese Style Spaghetti Squash Soup (No Fin Soup)
Here’s a simple soup to help use up those ubiquitous spaghetti squash this time of year. Also what better use of the Thanksgiving turkey bones most of us will have later this week than to make some broth that can be used in this recipe? Start by partially cooking the spaghetti squash. I like to...
Tea Sandwich Trays
Summer is slowly coming to an end~ This past month has been busy with cleaning and organizing the house, and getting Laurel ready to go off to college. Amongst all the hustle and bustle, we’ve enjoyed simple tea trays, quickly thrown together, and savored together in the warm weather. Smoked Salmon is always a favorite here. Lemon zest,...
Rotisserie Chicken Noodle Soup
The flu season is definitely in full swing all over the country. It knocked me out for the past few weeks, and chicken noodle soup seemed to be mostly what I wanted to eat. When you’re not feeling so well though, and you want to make a nourishing bone broth, a rotisserie chicken comes in...
Crock Pot Kalua Pig on a Rack of Onions
Now that the weather is cooling down from the 90’s this past week to the mid 70’s today, it seems like a good time to welcome fall by making some kalua pig (or kalua pork for the slightly more refined). Of course the best way to make kalua pig is in a traditional imu, but...
Buffalo Cauliflower Pancakes
Roasted Vegetables seem to make vegetables so tasty and easy to eat. I played around and made these yummy buffalo pancakes using ground roasted cauliflower seasoned with a some buffalo wing sauce and a bit of miso. An egg and a few tablespoons of mochiko (glutinous rice flour) helped hold the pancakes together just enough...
Easy Tofu Roast
Anytime of year is good for a tofu roast. Here’s one I made in the spring. Tofu Roast (a.k.a. Quill Bird) with Roasted Brussel Sprouts, Sweet Potatoes, and Parsnips But the best time of year to make one is in the fall, when there are plenty of winter vegetables to roast along with it. Every...
Pa’i’ai, Traditional Hawaiian Pounded Taro, made into Personal Size Pizzas (Allergy Friendly)
Vacuum sealed Pa’i’ai delivered right to my mailbox in a priority USPS envelope I’ve been having fun playing in the kitchen with Pa’i’ai fresh from Mana Ai in Hawaii. What is Pa’i’ai? It is simply hand pounded, cooked taro root. Cut open the vacuum sealed bag and find fresh Pa’i’ai wrapped in fresh ti leaves...
Roasted Vegetable Lasagna (Great for a Family Dinner of Mixed Diets)
Eggplant, zucchini, crookneck squash, summer squash, bell peppers, onion slices, mushrooms, and fennel are vegetables which work well. Cut open the bell peppers, remove the insides and slice them into large rectangles. Slice other vegetables 3/8″ thick, and place similarly sized vegetables together in the same pan so you can remove vegetables which cook faster...
Spicy Baked Buttermilk Chicken Strips
These baked chicken strips are easy to make when you’re craving something like fried chicken, but don’t actually want to deep fry anything. The marinade is made with two simple ingredients: buttermilk and hot wing sauce. I like this hot wing sauce because it only contains cayenne peppers, vinegar, salt, garlic and a little oil....
Cold Poached Chicken Tenderloins with Ginger and Green Onion Sauce
One of my favorite Chinese restaurant dishes we ordered growing up in Hawaii was Ginger and Green Onion Chicken. It was a whole, poached (skin on) chicken, chilled, cut into small (bone-in) pieces, rubbed with oil and topped with a chopped ginger and green onion sauce. Oh, so good on top of hot rice. I...
Honey Hoisin Pork Tenderloin Wraps
For the pork, marinate a pork tenderloin overnight in honey, hoisin, soy sauce, ginger, garlic, sea salt, and 5 spice powder. Then bake for 30 minutes the next day. If you’re really in a hurry though, instead of marinating the whole tenderloin overnight, cut it crosswise into slices and marinate the slices for 30 minutes....
Easy Spam Fried Rice
Hi folks, Happy New Year! I hope everyone enjoyed the holidays. It’s been a bit hectic here lately, but the kids finally went back to school today. Yay! A while back I posted my party spam musubi, and showed some musubi filled with fried rice. So here’s a quick recipe you can use for that,...
