Candy Corned Squash (Delicata, Butternut and Cauliflower)
Red Kabocha, Bluebell Hubbard and Delicata Squash The Farmers Markets are filled so many beautiful pumpkins and squash this time of year. I was surprised to discover Red Kabocha Squash with skin the most intense shade of orange. I ended up getting so many squash, that carrying them turned out to be a workout! How about some...
Roasted Sweet Potato Jack-o-Lantern Faces and Ghosts
I was so excited to think up of making these jack-o-lantern faces and ghosts with roasted sweet potato slices– something healthy and festive. I didn’t find out until after I had made them, and did a little surfing online, that someone had already done the sweet potato jack-o-lantern faces last year. Oh well, it’s still...
Avocado Cilantro Chile Dip
Now that school is back in session, I made a tasty little dip to have on hand for some afterschool snacks. It’s a quick “dump and blend” of cashews, pumpkin seeds, avocado, cilantro, diced green chilies, Cotija cheese, garlic, lemon juice, water and sea salt. Soaking the cashews and pumpkin seeds for a few hours...
Fresh Herb Noodle Salad
Spring is here in full force, as my frequent sneezing, and itching eyes have been telling me. What better time than now to whip up a light spring salad? I was recently asked to develop a recipe that would be fun for kids in the tween age group to make. As the tween age group...
Roasted Vegetables with Coconut Curry Sauce
Have you ever seen purple broccoli or yellow cauliflower? Eye catching, aren’t they? A rainbow of vegetables! I’m thinking of all the phytonutrients here! They’re so pretty by themselves in a platter and you could eat them with a dip, or…. I like them roasted– tossed with a little olive oil and put in a...
Lau Lau Flavored Kale and Beet Greens
Lau laus are a favorite island food. Traditionally a pieces of pork and salted fish wrapped in layers of luau (taro) leaves, then ti leaves, and finally steamed in an underground pit (imu) for several hours. Today they are mostly cooked in steamers or even crockpots . The luau leaves end up soft, smoky and...
Sunday Morning Mashed Cauliflower
Yesterday morning I woke up early enough to hit the downtown Sunday Farmer’s Market under the freeway before the big crowds arrived. It was so relaxing perusing all the goods in the early morning quiet. Two things I got were a giant head of cauliflower, and a fresh, crisp loaf of German Pretzel Bread. Mashed...
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...
Buttermilk Scallion Flatbread
Sometimes you need some kind of bread or starch for a meal, but you don’t have anything at home, and you don’t feel like making a trip to the grocery store. This simple flatbread is easy to throw together. White Whole Wheat Flour from Trader Joe’s I like to use half unbleached all purpose flour,...
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,...
Smoked Salmon Musubi
Here’s a great little appetizer- snack for New Year’s Eve or New Year’s Day celebrations. Of course spam musubi is always popular, but this version is especially for those who don’t eat spam, like my dear little Quill. She loves smoked salmon a lot, and could eat it everyday. Start off with good rice. I...
Time for some Maple Vanilla Sweet Potatoes
I first made my Maple Vanilla Sweet Potatoes last year, and stuffed them into roasted mini pumpkins. Fall seems to be the perfect time of year to make these. They’re so easy to pipe into custard cups if you don’t want to mess with the mini pumpkins. I’m thinking they’d be even easier just spooned into one...
