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how to make an ugly vegetable edible

I bought my first eggplant last week in an effort to broaden my cooking horizons. I read a couple recipes then winged it.

I am SUCH a geek

[photopress:imgp8031.jpg,full,centered] I have been working on revamping my photo gallery software so that I can use one program to organize photos, insert captions, create web galleries AND publish them to our website.

Spicy grilled opah

Dave grilled us some opah tonight, accompanied by asparagus/mushrooms/sesame seeds, salad and soba noodles. It was so ono (delicious) that I had to copy the recipe below in case you find any opah in your freezer (We use the categories to find our recipes again – so this is as much for you as for [...]

uniquely Hawaiian things

Hawaiian sea salt – amazing – add to fish with lemon and grill (we did a Pacific blue marlin the other night, with sticky rice and salad and pineapple dressing – very tasty!); last night we had Kalua pig made with hickory smoke flavor and sea salt, cooked on low in the slow cooker for [...]

sammy says “yes” and “bath”!

[photopress:misoyaki_butterfish.jpg,thumb,thumb] [photopress:IMGP7603.JPG,thumb,thumb] [photopress:IMGP7606.JPG,thumb,thumb] [photopress:IMGP7607.JPG,thumb,thumb] [photopress:IMGP7608.JPG,thumb,thumb] well – he is saying something that sounds like those words, and at the appropriate times. we ask him yes/no questions and then ask him to use his words to answer, hence the “yes” (and the vigorous head-shaking motion for “no” you saw in a video last week!). we ask [...]