Year: 2015

Hawaii Feasting: New to Me 2015

Hawaii Feasting: New to Me 2015

Update 2021: Sadly Snow Factory is no longer in business. I recently returned from Hawaii, spending a week with family and friends and enjoying a much needed vacation. As usual there were lots of opportunities to enjoy the local foods I can't get in Boston. But on...

Char Siu Bao

Char Siu Bao

The Joys of Cooking with Friends Eating, for me, is a social event, a way to connect with friends and family while enjoying delicious food. Cooking is just as social. I love having folks in and around the kitchen when I'm cooking and I really enjoy when someone joins...

Jamie Oliver’s Minty Mushy Peas

Jamie Oliver’s Minty Mushy Peas

Years ago when a group of friends and I were celebrating Thanksgiving, a friend asked me to make mushy peas. I had no idea what she was asking for so I made something up. I bought a can of peas (which already sounded mushy to me) and cooked it to death. Needless to...

Crunchy Pea Salad

Crunchy Pea Salad

It's been awhile since I lived in Hawaii but there are still some things that I remember after all these years. One of them is a pea salad from Ryan's Grill, a long-since closed restaurant in Honolulu. We often went there for lunch and I got a salad sampler plate. I...

S’mores Bars with Marshmallow Meringue

S’mores Bars with Marshmallow Meringue

When I was looking for a dessert for our last Moveable Feast, I found the answer in a recent issue of Food & Wine magazine - a delicious riff on a campfire favorite, the s'more. I love s'mores - gathering around a fire, getting the perfect toasted...

Watermelon Lime Agua Fresca

Watermelon Lime Agua Fresca

Moveable Feast: Summertime This year has been tough on our Moveable Feast scheduling. The first Feast of the year fell victim to the winter storms and it wasn't until mid-Spring when we finally celebrated the foods of Peru (I owe you a post about this one). Our second...

Jalapeño and Cheese Beer Bread

Jalapeño and Cheese Beer Bread

There's nothing like fresh baked bread and the way the warm, yeasty smell fills the house. My mother would make bread every week and had a bread starter going for years. Unfortunately it's one of the traditions that we didn't continue as a family. Recently I've seen...

Nigella Lawson’s No-Churn Coffee Ice Cream

Nigella Lawson’s No-Churn Coffee Ice Cream

Last year I really got into using my ice cream maker and had successes with black pepper ice cream and I Want S'more ice cream. As the weather warms up I'm looking forward to more recipes and experiments. I recently watched a re-run of Nigella...

Family Traditions: Gao

Family Traditions: Gao

Updated: January 2022 When you hear me speak of influential women in my life, at the top of my list is my Mom followed by my maternal Grandmother - Popo Chock. You rarely hear me speak of my paternal Grandmother - Popo Char. Although she lived with us for a time, we...

Hawaii Feasting: Mostly Maui

Hawaii Feasting: Mostly Maui

Update 2023: Sadly, Star Noodle was a victim of the Lahaina wildfires. Its sister restaurant, Leoda's, survived. We will wait to see how the area will recover over the next several years and pray for those who have lost so much. Update 2021: Sadly Da Kitchen closed...