For the longest time I avoided kalua pork because it didn’t look appetizing. Never ‘judge a book by it’s cover!’ With some encouragement, I finally took my first bite of kalua pork while on a trip to Hawaii at a luau. I was hooked! After that, I only ate kalua pork when I was in Hawaii. Then I discovered that it wasn’t half bad, in fact pretty darned good at The Loft and King’s Hawaiian Bakery...
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I knew it was going to be an odd day when I woke up hungry and was craving Japanese food. (And, no, I am not preggo again!) On my trips to Japan, I never could figure out why my peeps in the homeland enjoyed eating rice and miso soup for breakfast. I admit to eating this for breakfast on a few occasions while traveling, but it was honestly because of jet lag. I mean by the time it was breakfast there, it was really time for a late...
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When I was little my mom would make sunomono (Japanese vinegared salad) with kyuri (Japanese cucumber) and wakame (seaweed). Sometimes she would also add dried shirasu (whitefish; baby “katakuchi” sardine) or other small dried fish “for calcium” as she said. Often times at dinner I would see a bowl of sunomono as one of the many Japanese side dishes served with our fish, curry, or other Japanese dish we were...
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Since bebe dada is sick, I decided to make him soup. He always makes me simple, yet delicious Chinese soups (see Winter Melon Soup and Wonton Soup) when I’m sick but I wanted to make good ol’ fashion chicken noodle soup. What I ended up making was a hearty chicken, macaroni and vegetable soup with ingredients I had in the kitchen. One of the things I keep in my freezer is leftover whole rotisserie chicken from Costco. Costco has...
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I love St. Patrick’s Day because of corned beef! This year, we celebrated on Friday March 19, 2010 and invited my brother and his family, my BFF, and Aya-chan over for dinner. I cooked three 3-pound corned beef slabs, purchased on sale at Albertsons for only 0.97 cents per pound! Woo-hoo! Keeping with my mom’s Japanese tradition, I made rice too. SHOPPERS TIP: I’ve found that corned beef goes on sale at the local...
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