What's for Dinner - Chapter 4

[kanahina]

The last of my leftovers from Tony Roma's: onion loaf, bread (w/ butter), mozarella stick, 1/2 a loaded baked potato, and ribs.

[cyleet99]

tonight's supper menu at my house: Roast beef with gravy (secret ingredient of campbell's golden mushroom soup, a little water and sprinkling of onion soup mix...shhhh and don't tell) , field peas with greenbeans, sticky rice for the gravy and steamed cabbage. Yup, there are enough leftovers for lunch at work tomorrow, if I can keep the teenager out of the rice and gravy. Now for dessert--I found a box of Girl Scout thin mints! :p

[helen]

Beef and Cheeder sandwich, and a bunch of finger foods from Arby's.

[kanahina]

fried Spam and cheese sandwich
water

[Honoruru]

fried Spam and cheese sandwich
water

Fried Spam and cheese sandwich? I thought you were eating healthy.:)

As for me, oden (frozen, from Don Quiote) with daikon and Chinese mustard cabbage, and a small bottle of sake. That was my healthy one-day-in-the-week meal. Tomorrow, maybe a plate lunch.

[cynsaligia]

i made a very ugly, but tasty enough whole wheat mac and cheese with turkey taco filling. the original plan was to make the mac and cheese in a pot, the taco meat in the pan, and once both were cooked, combine the two. but i got lazy. i cooked the noodles. i cooked & seasoned the turkey (my own spice mix of chili powder, cumin, oregano & cinnamon). i dumped the noodles into the pan with the turkey, then poured the milk/egg/dry mustard mixture in with the meat/noodles and folded in the shredded cheddar/colby/monterey jack. it all blended into a homogenous lump of gray-brown bleh.

ah well. eric seemed to like it well enough, and while i am dissatisfied, it did taste good...just not as good as it would have had i cooked the dish the way i intended. thank goodness i have friends who are single and don't get much home cooking, cause we have enough for six more healthy servings.

[pzarquon]

My mom took my family and I out for my birthday to Tsukiji Fish Market & Restaurant at Ala Moana Center, part of the Ho'okipa Terrace. Very nice, much more upscale than feeding troughs like Todai and Makino Chaya. But, ultimately, it's a buffet, so for all the bulk, the quality seemed rather sterile and uninspired. At least the kids ate well... and they ate free, too!

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Turns out photography is not allowed, though of course notification came somewhat late in the meal. See all the photos they don't want you to see here (http://www.flickr.com/photos/hawaii/sets/72157602975063076/)!

[Lika]

Leftover teriyaki pork, brown rice, sauteed bok choy, with a side of home made wonton in soup.

[kanahina]

Fried Spam and cheese sandwich? I thought you were eating healthy.:)


Oh no, I never claimed to be eating "healthy"! I am just eating less. I eat those breakfast bars for breakfast and lunch, then for dinner, i just eat less of whatever it is we're having. I don't do "healthy"

The sandwich did have only 1 piece of bread, instead of two ...

:D

[CranBeree]

My mom took my family and I out for my birthday to Tsukiji Fish Market & Restaurant at Ala Moana Center, part of the Ho'okipa Terrace. Very nice, much more upscale than feeding troughs like Todai and Makino Chaya. But, ultimately, it's a buffet, so for all the bulk, the quality seemed rather sterile and uninspired. At least the kids ate well... and they ate free, too!

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Turns out photography is not allowed, though of course notification came somewhat late in the meal. See all the photos they don't want you to see here (http://www.flickr.com/photos/hawaii/sets/72157602975063076/)!


i was a little dissapointed at their desert selections .. i didn't know kids ate free! ooh definite a must do when the in laws come back from vacation.
how did you like the lilikoi ribs?

[helen]

Turkey sandwich, bag of chips and a couple of cans of Diet Coke at Cafe 2600.

[cynsaligia]

eric & i went to sunrise restaurant on kapahulu. we had the special miso soup & sushi combo (about $13.00), the pork-goya champuru (about $8.00) and the saba, which also came with a spring salad (about $7.00). what i really wanted was the nakami champuru but ran out already. no matter--the prices are right, and we're always greeted like family, no matter how long it's been since we last were there. besides, it's sweet for me to see how eric's face relaxes into contentment everytime we go. he said it reminds him of his grandaunt's house back in small keed days.

nadine kam did a review of sunrise back in 2001 here (http://starbulletin.com/2001/03/08/features/eater.html).

[kanahina]

1 piece of pan pizza (with chicken and pineapples for toppings) from Pizza Hut
1 small bag of Funyuns
water

[helen]

Chicken shakers and a cup of fruit punch from Arby's.

[Lei K]

Kalua pua'a and poi. Poi was da kine I get frozen in a bag from da aina. Bleh. I'll take what I can get though!

[kanahina]

1 piece leftover Pizza Hut pizza
New York Style Sea Salt Bagel Crisps
water

[Leo Lakio]

A visit to Taco Time, before performing an old-time radio script at a corporate event.

[kanahina]

Went to En Fuego Grill & Poke (I think that was the name) in Kapolei tonight. I had 1/2 a garlic chicken sandwich and fries and a Coke.

[scrivener]

Friends and I went to New Mui Kwai on Liliha. We had the honey-glazed walnut shrimp (quite good), the garlic eggplant (very good), and the barbecue beef sizzling platter (pretty good).

[SusieMisajon]

Our favorite light supper....hot rice, fried egg, and sardines fried in shoyu...all topped with ketchup.

The cat got the sardine oil from the can.

[Pomai]

Friends and I went to New Mui Kwai on Liliha. We had the honey-glazed walnut shrimp (quite good), the garlic eggplant (very good), and the barbecue beef sizzling platter (pretty good).Wow. A Mui Kwai in Liliha. I thought they were only located in Kaneohe.

Not that you'd find me going there. I'm so not into Chinese food (except Manapua kinda' stuff).

[cynsaligia]

last night's dinner was at henry loui's, while watching the UH-fresno game: prime rib pupu w/seasoned, non-curly fries, furukake musubi, and garlic soybeans. plus dollah draft steinlagahs.

[helen]

Combo #4 from KFC with corn on the cob and a cup of Mountain Dew.

[kanahina]

The hubby & I shared a chicken katsu plate (with french fries and macaroni salad, no chow fun or kim chee for me) and a coke from Grace's Inn

[1stwahine]

P.K. and I went to Genki Sushi Ala Moana! Someone should have warned us!

I'm warning you!

We were seated at our table. I looked at the menu. We ordered Miso Soup. Our waitress told us they ran out and it would take twenty minutes. We said ok. I ordered the Teriyaki Bowl, Dynamite Tempura, Dragon Roll, and Fried Tako pieces. From the conveyor belt, we took Cold Somen Noodles, Tuna Sushi, Shrimp Tempura, Ahi Sushi, Won Ton wrapped around something sweet and flaked with powdered sugar.

K-den. The oil they used was dirty. The shrimp was the worst I've tasted. The Fried Tako was horrors! Our waitress told us they ran outta rice if we wouldn't mind having our Teriyaki with Sushi? We were already "Sushied Out! We wanted plain rice for a change.

The Miso Soup we waited finally came. It tasted like flavored hot wata!

Foa Shame!

The Dynamite Tempura, Dragon Roll and Ahi Sushi were good.

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Auntie Lynn

[helen]

Pizza slices and a cup of fruit punch from Sam's Club.

[1stwahine]

Pork Spare-ribs simmered in bell pepper, maui onion and fresh tomato. Spices included garlic, and fresh ground black pepper.:D

Served ova hot steamed rice.;)

Auntie Lynn

[SusieMisajon]

Paté on toast.

[lavagal]

Paté on toast.

And the wine, Mademoiselle?

[kanahina]

1/2 of a Combination plate from En Fuego Grill and Poke in Kapolei:
Garlic chicken / Mochiko chicken, white rice, macaroni salad and a Coke

[TATTRAT]

Left over fried rice from Chart House, and a sammich...from ABC:eek:

[lavagal]

1/2 of a Combination plate from En Fuego Grill and Poke in Kapolei:
Garlic chicken / Mochiko chicken, white rice, macaroni salad and a Coke

Wait! What, no bagel chips with sea salt? Not even four? !!!

[kanahina]

Wait! What, no bagel chips with sea salt? Not even four? !!!

please check the lunch thread for my daily 4 bagel chips with sea salt!

:p

I promise no bagel chips tomorrow ... I am off and will be running errands and have a doctors appointment so I'm probably gonna eat lunch out somewhere...

[lavagal]

please check the lunch thread for my daily 4 bagel chips with sea salt!

:p

I promise no bagel chips tomorrow ... I am off and will be running errands and have a doctors appointment so I'm probably gonna eat lunch out somewhere...

Just a good ribbing at ya! I was craving ice cream after lunch so I went to the little store in the building where HI Biz College used to be and in their freezer were Fat Boy bars in various flavors, Hagen Daaz bars and cups, and TGIF frozen yogurt. I was a good girl. I can't make the wrong choices. I am working way too hard. I keep telling my diet body at work that I wanna be an AFTER instead of a BEFORE!

[SusieMisajon]

And the wine, Mademoiselle?
I know, I know....it's a shame, really, but I don't often drink. I had milk with it.

[SusieMisajon]

I'm canning laulaus, today, so that's what we'll be having for dinner. For this batch, I'm cheating a bit..besides using spinach, I'm not wrapping the laulaus up, but simply layering the pork, chicken, and salmon with spinach leaves into the jars, and then canning them.

[lavagal]

I'm canning laulaus, today, so that's what we'll be having for dinner. For this batch, I'm cheating a bit..besides using spinach, I'm not wrapping the laulaus up, but simply layering the pork, chicken, and salmon with spinach leaves into the jars, and then canning them.

I admire your confidence! I tried to preserve lemons last year and let's just say I'm lucky I put a good seal on my mason jars. How can you get preserved lemons wrong? Salt, lemon, lemon juice? I have no idea! And yet, I did.

[helen]

BBQ Chicken and Hamburger Steak combo and a cup of Mountain Dew from Mahalo Drive Inn.

[MixedPlateBroker]

Cyn made for us:
A hearty Irish stew with lamb, parsnips, sweet potatoes, carrots, celery and ... Guiness!:D

[helen]

Personal pan pizzas, bread sticks and a cup of water from Taco Bell Express at Ala Moana Shopping Center.

[cynsaligia]

i've got a cold so last night, eric made his first pressure cooker chicken soup using frozen chicken thighs, okinawan sweet potatoes, parsnips, and carrots. it was really good! while i'm not 100% better today, i definitely feel 100% loved. :D

[SusieMisajon]

I admire your confidence! I tried to preserve lemons last year and let's just say I'm lucky I put a good seal on my mason jars. How can you get preserved lemons wrong? Salt, lemon, lemon juice? I have no idea! And yet, I did.
Don't fret. I've never tried the lemons, but I have had some really bad failures. The things that work make up for the things that don't.

[1stwahine]

Fried Fresh Butterfish Steaks and Brown Rice

Green Tea

Auntie Lynn

[SusieMisajon]

The last of he chicken soup. I added corn, vermicelli, and potatoes to stretch it.

The kids were sick of it, seeing as we had it for the last three meals...so I told them they were lucky that we didn't live in olden days, when, in order to save fuel, people cooked one big pot of something and finished it before cooking something else. And then I taught them the song about that...pease porridge hot, pease porridge cold, pease porridge in the pot, nine days old.

[helen]

Jumbo Jacks from Jack-in-the-Box and a can of Mountain Dew.

[Beau]

Grilled meduim rare rib eye streak, baked potatoe with all the trimmings (butter, sour cream, clives and bacon bits. Fresh Island corn on the cob slathered with real sweet cream butter. Tossed salad with Manoa Lettuce, vine riipen tomatoes and japanese cucumber.

And Breyers Rocky Road Ice Cream for dessert. YUM... Now for the cleanup:(

[helen]

Chicken strips and a cup of Mountain Dew from KFC.

[kanahina]

went to Chili's and had :

BBQ RANCH BIG MOUTH BURGER
We grill our burgers medium, medium-well or well-done. Served on a sesame seed bun. Applewood smoked bacon, aged cheddar cheese, BBQ sauce, Ranch dressing, lettuce, tomato and pickle.http://chilis.com/images/menu_images/category_items/Popup_image/lg_sand_bbqbacon.jpg

also had mashed potatoes (instead of the french fries that come with it) and coke... And dessert (but that is it the dessert thread)

But I only ate half of the burger and mashed potatoes... :)

[helen]

Noodles, lemon chicken, seafood vegatable and a bottle of Orange Gatorade.

[Beau]

Braised clams in a butter, garlic and sake infused sauce, finished by topping with finely chopped chives. Sauce was sopped up with a fresh baguette from St. Germain. Tossed salad.

[helen]

BBQ Chicken, rice, mac salad and a bottle of Orange Gatorade from L&L Hawaiian BBQ.

[helen]

Pork adobo, hamburger steak plate lunch with a bottle of water.

[helen]

Steak, fried rice and other stuff at Kobe Steak House.

[tutusue]

Steak, fried rice and other stuff at Kobe Steak House.
Oh yum!

Tonight, while across the street from Kobe, I had lobster bisque, spinach salad and fresh fruit...all compliments of Costco!

[SusieMisajon]

Fishsticks, rice, greenbeans. With ketchup.

[Jack Hawksmoor]

Part 1:

Rice, adobo pork, shoyu with garlic.

Part 2:

Hotdog and instant noodles sprinkled with adobo seasoning.

I am a pig.:o

[SusieMisajon]

Part 1:

Rice, adobo pork, shoyu with garlic.

Part 2:

Hotdog and instant noodles sprinkled with adobo seasoning.

I am a pig.:o
How long was it before the first and second course?

[1stwahine]

Ruby Tuesday at Ala Moana.

We were told the menu was new one week.

Ok...fine. We ordered.

I had the surf and turf
Crab Cake and Steak
One side salad

Crab Cake tasted alright but I've had better and it flaked all ova. It was a mess to eat it.:eek: As for my steak, it was totally burnt to crisp. I ordered medium rare. Our waitress, no where to be found for the longest time. We had to call another waiter for assistance. The Salad BAR was excellent.

Auntie Lynn

[LikaNui]

I'm not surprised, Auntie. I've tried the new Ruby Tuesday at Windward Mall three times. Ordered different steaks each time, and each one was horrible.
Three strikes -- they're out!

[helen]

Fried rice, chicken with veggies and a bottle of Orange Gatorade.

[helen]

Various chicken dishes and noddles with a cup of Diet Coke from Patti's Chinese Kitchen.

[LikaNui]

Took a friend to dinner at Haleiwa Joe's in Kaneohe. I had Filet Mignon, baked potato, Caesar salad, key lime pie, and a vodka martini. Absolutely onolicious.
Got one happy opu here!

[helen]

Turkey sandwich, chips, cookies and a bottle of water.

[SusieMisajon]

We had bubble and squeak.

Leftover potatoes and sausage fried with cabbage and onion, and topped with ketchup and HP sauce. Milk to drink. Applesauce for dessert.

[helen]

Mushroom chicken plate lunch and a cup of Mountain Dew from Mahalo Drive Inn.

[scrivener]

Went with friends to Teddy's Bigger Burger in Waikiki. One spudburger, one order of fries, and one Diet Coke, and I'm feeling good.

[SusieMisajon]

Soup.

Chicken bones from the freezer, cabbage, carrots, onion, potatoes, leek, celery, and garlic. Wheat berries, peppercorns, bay, thyme, and, because the kids thought the soup was dull, stock cubes.

It WAS dull, but it was also hot, nourishing, and economic.

[cynsaligia]

we spent the night at eric's mom's and cooked dinner for her bcs her sciatic nerve was killing her. we picked up some red alae salt ahi poke from tamura's. eric fried up a couple huge tilapia, which he stuffed with miso and green onion. at eric's mom's request, i made chicken adobo with potatoes (chicken livers added), and also an eggplant and tomato salad with patis.

we had intended to buy akule from tamashiro's but they were cleaned out and all the other fish that were left didn't interest us. so we drove over to the kalihi foodland and saw the tilapia. none of us had ever eaten it before last night and i have to say, it was pretty good!

[helen]

BBQ Chicken and Pork Adobo from AAA Local BBQ.

[cynsaligia]

staying at eric's mom's again tonight. her back is feeling better, and she wanted to thank us for dog-sitting, cooking dinner last night as well as lunch today, plus power-washing the driveway (we think some of the mold that's growing on the cement might be part of the shibas' paw problems of late). so mom made us chili, panko-crusted shrimp with a spicy dressing that kinda looked like thosand island dressing but wasn't, and heated up some vegetarian shumai. she also made us a romaine and roma tomato salad which we enjoyed with a goat cheese dressing she made.

gotta love it when mom cooks. :D

[SusieMisajon]

We had that soup, again. This was the third time, and everybody is sick of it.

[helen]

Grilled chicken from Zippy's.

[helen]

Pork Adobo, rice, mac salad and a bottle of Orange Gatorade.

[helen]

Triple dip strips combo from KFC.

[SusieMisajon]

I had leftover macaroni that I'd doused with butter, parsley, chives, and garlic. I fried some of it with butter and then added lightly beaten eggs, stirred it around til they were scrambled, and..Voila!..ready to eat!

[SusieMisajon]

Very quickly fried beef patties, served in a baguette and eaten on the run. Many hours later, yoghurt and tangerines, eaten along with Christmas chocolates..

[helen]

Polish sausage, combo slice and a cup of Diet Coke from Costco.

[helen]

Pizza slices and a cup of Diet Coke from Sam's Club.

[SusieMisajon]

No dinner served. No lunch, either. Not even any breakfast.

The kids were offered breakfast at the music school, before going out in town to sing carols. Then the ludotec (like a library, but with toys) had a come-and-play day, with more stuff for them to eat. Then there were more cakes and pastries and sausage rolls and coke at the end of the day at the Jardin public.

They're in bed with sore bellies.

[helen]

Noodles, a couple of chicken choices and a Diet Coke from Patti's Chinese Kitchen at Ala Moana.

[SusieMisajon]

Another crap food day.

We spent the entire day baking cookies. And eating cookies. And licking beaters and bowls. Cocolate chip cookies, gingerbread cookies, oatmeal cookies, peanut butter cookies, Nutella cookies, to name but a few.

I did make a lovely taco soup...stewing beef, tomatoes, potatoes, greenbeans, corn, onion, garlic, carrot, pintobeans, celery, green pepper, tacospice, thyme, bay, beef stock cube...but nobody wanted much of it.

[Leo Lakio]

Salmon - lots of salmon. Feeding guests from Sweden, before they head off to O`ahu tomorrow (one is originally from Kane`ohe.)

[Erika Engle]

Mostly home-made Cheesesteak Pizzas, based on a recipe I found here:

http://www.beefitswhatsfordinner.com/recipes/

(It's in the ground beef recipe category.)

The recipe is seriously lacking in seasonings, so I added a BUNCH of minced garlic, some oregano, basil, crushed red pepper flakes -- I think that's it. Also, the capper, literally and figuratively, was the Sargento mozzarella-provolone blend I was stoked to find while shopping yesterday. My cheese-steak fix REQUIRES "provi" ...

The filling was enough for two store-bought, ready-to-top, 12-inch pizza crusts, which I baked on pizza screens from MidCity Restaurant Supply at Y.Hata. The screens allow the crust-bottoms to be wonderfully crunchy, which they would not necessarily be, were they baked on a regular baking sheet or un-vented pizza pan.

I hope you omnivores enjoy the beef Web site, BTW! I stumbled upon it yesterday and have bookmarked it.

[helen]

Party at a friends place. Meat, cheese, shrimp, various wines and a can of Black Cherry Vallinia Coke.

[tutusue]

I had the same meat, cheese and shrimp as Helen. I opted for only one wine, no soda but I did indulge in a small piece of homemade macadamia nut pie. Ecstasy!!!

It appears that Helen stayed a bit later than I did!

[cynsaligia]

christmas eve dinner was deep fried turkey, filipino pork bone soup with shanghai cabbage, and rice. additionally, my mom made pancit bihon--eric's favorite, and quite possibly, the best pancit bihon on earth. :p

[hawaiian_pride]

Tonight for Christmas we are having pasteles. It's a tradition always served at christmas time.

[hawaiian_pride]

and forgot to add the arroz con gandules to go with the pasteles. El Mucho Gusto.

[cynsaligia]

rice, blanched broccoli, prawn sinigang with shanghai cabbage, lechon kawali. dessert will be fresh blueberry pie, which my mom picked up yesterday from marie callendar's.

[Pua'i Mana'o]

ham, three different casseroles, shrimp made in the most fattening way possible, salad, and loooootttttssssaaa desserts.

I think I took three years off of my life tonight. :o

[SusieMisajon]

Last night's dinner and today's lunch soup:

A small jar of home-canned pork belly (I scraped off the lard to use another day), onion, garlic powder, thyme, bayleaf, Tabasco, salt, pepper, more pepper, vegetable stock cubes, pinto beans (cooked and dehydrated, from the prep cupboard), celery, potato, carrot...boil em up and then add curly cabbage chunks. Simmer some more and serve with cornbread.

One cup cornmeal, one cup flour, 1/2 cup sugar, one teaspoon salt, 3 1/2 teaspoons baking powder. Mix. In another bowl, mix a cup of milk and an egg with 1/3 cup oil, then mix that gently into the dry stuff. Bake at 400°f for about half an hour.

Christmas pudding and custard for dessert.

[pzarquon]

After two big family dinners -- one at a cousin's house and one at a restaurant -- we're finally eating at home again tonight. My wife's roasting two whole chickens, cooking up some fresh spinach, and contemplating baking cookies or brownies for dessert.

[helen]

Ultimate Cheeseburger from Jack-in-the-Box and a bottle of water.

[cynsaligia]

leftover lechon kawali, leftover fried turkey, catfish diningding with marunggay and fili long green beans.

[helen]

Popcorn chicken and chicken strips from KFC.

[helen]

Chicken McNuggets, double cheeseburger and a cup of fruit punch from McDonalds.

[1stwahine]

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We went to have dinner at Blazin' Steaks on N. King Street. Located across Diners in Kalihi. It use to be Pizza Hut many years ago and then it was a Filipino Restaurant. The prices are reasonable.

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We ordered the 16oz. steaks for $10.00 each. Includes two scoop rice, toss salad and a soda. They slice the steak for you. It was tasty the only thing neba have much fat.heheheh

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Auntie Lynn

[helen]

Pizza slice, chicken torandos and a cup of fruit punch from Sam's Club.

[Lei Liko]

Kal-Bi plate from Bob's Bar-B-Que in Kalihi.

Mahalo for the pics of Blazin' Steaks, Auntie Lynn! I used to frequent that place when it was still Pizza Hut (since I only lived right down the road!). I think it's funny how the tenants post-Pizza Hut still haven't gotten rid of that ever familiar roof!

[skeeterbess]

I definitely need to check out Blazin Steaks'. :D

Tonight was oven barbecued pork ribs, marinated in balsamic all day, then covered with my own recipe rub. So tender the bones fell out when I took them out of the pan. Made yam chips brushed with butter and sprinkled with a touch of cinnamon to go with. Plenty of leftovers for tomorrow.

[tutusue]

Green salad sprinkled with a mixture of peas, edamame, bacon bits and finely shredded cheese topped with artichoke parmesan dressing. Boring, but easy!

[craigwatanabe]

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We went to have dinner at Blazin' Steaks on N. King Street. Located across Diners in Kalihi. It use to be Pizza Hut many years ago and then it was a Filipino Restaurant. The prices are reasonable.

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We ordered the 16oz. steaks for $10.00 each. Includes two scoop rice, toss salad and a soda. They slice the steak for you. It was tasty the only thing neba have much fat.heheheh

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Auntie Lynn

There's a Blazin' Steaks here in Hilo in the Prince Kuhio Mall food court.

[1stwahine]

The picture doesn't show da kine fish they use.

It's "Opakapaka!":D

Auntie Lynn

[helen]

Cheeseburgers, salad and a cup of fruit punch from McDonalds.

[scrivener]

I went to Mini Garden in the 99 Ranch Market food court. Ordered beef tomato with rice. It came without beef! Just tomato, bell pepper, and a tomatoey sauce on rice.

I didn't complain. Whatever. It was fine. But I shoulda just went home and had the pot roast I made earlier today, even though I had it for breakfast and lunch.

[helen]

Popcorn, hot dog and a cup of fruit punch at Dole Theater.

[OahuGirl]

A whole mango~shame on me!
Some tostitos scoops.
Sparkling grape apple juice.

[helen]

Chicken, gyoga and beer.

[cyleet99]

Made chicken and sausage pileau (also spelled purlo) of rice, chicken wings and portuguese sausage; a nice surprise to find how good local sausage tasted in this Low Country South Carolina special dish! Also had to have deviled eggs to eat during the game. What a GREAT team! Loved the Ha'a Dance! GO WARRIORS!!

[OahuGirl]

Sushi, Ham, potatoe salad, peas salad, tempura, coke.
I was invited to a friends house so there goes my nutrition plan for today. There's always tomorrow...wait, same friend invited me for lunch. I will take my own lunch. :p

[oceanpacific]

Deep-fried boneless chicken, shrimp tempura, breaded fish filets, sashimi, noodles with bean sprouts, roll-ups, nishime, garden salad greens with mushrooms, bleu cheese, papaya seed dressing, lilikoi chiffon pie, ice cream, cinnamon rolls. Non-alcoholic beverages. The food partially offset the UH-UGA results.

And, no, I didn't have to be called of the ledge. I don't bet on games and 12-1 is still a great season.

[skeeterbess]

Kalbi ribs, cheese grits, blackeyed peas, yam chips. That's how we eat in the SOUTH ... um, south Oahu, I guess, lol! :D

[cynsaligia]

dinner tonight was mostly leftovers from new year's eve dinner (cook is credited in parentheses for each dish):

prime rib roast (me), dungeness crab, collard greens with ham hock (eric), potatoes fondantes (me), honey-orange glazed carrots (me), brown rice (mom) and strawberry cheesecake pie (costco), all enjoyed with edna vineyard's 2005 cab sav.

all that food for only the four of us--mom, eric, mom's brother, and me. not that we're complaining, but we'll be eating leftovers until we fly out for home later this week.

[1stwahine]

prime rib roast

Woman, dat picture was all it took foa me dis morning!:) I woke-up MAMA, treated her to breakfast at Zippy's Vineyard den headed to Safeway Pali. ha ha ha Bought a great Prime Roast foa $9.10 on sale. Was $15.89 just the odda day!:p (Last year)

http://i263.photobucket.com/albums/ii121/1stwahine3/Picture226.jpg

HAHAHAHAHAHAH

Yep! Now I'm headed foa Tamashiro Market and going pick up some "Live" Blue Crabs.

Thanks foa a wonderful suggestion foa a menu on day 2!

Auntie Lynn

[cynsaligia]

Woman, dat picture was all it took foa me dis morning!:) I woke-up MAMA, treated her to breakfast at Zippy's Vineyard den headed to Safeway Pali. ha ha ha Bought a great Prime Roast foa $9.10 on sale. Was $15.89 just the odda day!:p (Last year)

HAHAHAHAHAHAH

Yep! Now I'm headed foa Tamashiro Market and going pick up some "Live" Blue Crabs.

Thanks foa a wonderful suggestion foa a menu on day 2!

Auntie Lynn

*lol* auntie, the day i inspire you to do anything is a great day for me, indeed. if you're curious, the prime rib was rubbed with kosher salt (no mo hawaiian salt in portland), fresh ground pepper, and rosemary. my mom found the recipe for it and the potatoes fondantes (a jacques pepin recipe i had, coincidentally, seen on a rachael ray's holiday feast show) at the oregonian (portland newspaper) here (http://www.oregonlive.com/oregonian/stories/index.ssf?/base/living/1197662123250110.xml&coll=7).

here are close-ups of the prime rib, potatoes fondantes, and collard greens. i wish we had taken a pic of the roast, pre-carving. it was a gorgeous thing!

[1stwahine]

*lol* auntie, the day i inspire you to do anything is a great day for me, indeed. if you're curious, the prime rib was rubbed with kosher salt (no mo hawaiian salt in portland), fresh ground pepper, and rosemary.

heheheh

You INSPIRED me!!

No kosher salt foa me. I use Niihau Salt.

HAHAHAHAHAHA

First, I rub the bugga down with butter. Den da Niihau Salt, fresh ground pepper, crushed garlic and my magic touch of Love and Aloha!
http://i263.photobucket.com/albums/ii121/1stwahine3/Picture227.jpg

Cover it up and pour the pan with water 1/4.

http://i263.photobucket.com/albums/ii121/1stwahine3/Picture228.jpg
Bake at 325 for 2-3 hours or wen you want it done.:)

Auntie Lynn

I forgot...I use 1 capsule of olive oil to pour on meat. Ok...2 capsules.heheheh

[skeeterbess]

Woman, dat picture was all it took foa me dis morning! I woke-up MAMA, treated her to breakfast at Zippy's Vineyard den headed to Safeway Pali. ha ha ha Bought a great Prime Roast foa $9.10 on sale. Was $15.89 just the odda day! (Last year)

http://i263.photobucket.com/albums/ii121/1stwahine3/Picture226.jpg

HAHAHAHAHAHAH

Yep! Now I'm headed foa Tamashiro Market and going pick up some "Live" Blue Crabs.

Thanks foa a wonderful suggestion foa a menu on day 2!

Auntie Lynn

Siiiiiiiiiigh! You made me hopeful, so I made a run to Tamura, hoping they'd cut too many and had to mark them down. Nope, still over $30.00 for each of the three they had left. Hmmmm! Maybe I should go back early tomorrow and maybe I'll get lucky then! :p

[1stwahine]

Siiiiiiiiiigh! You made me hopeful, so I made a run to Tamura, hoping they'd cut too many and had to mark them down. Nope, still over $30.00 for each of the three they had left. Hmmmm! Maybe I should go back early tomorrow and maybe I'll get lucky then! :p

heheheh

I can imagine the traffic to Safeway Pali after I posted.:p

The prices should come down tomorrow. ;)

Auntie Lynn

[helen]

Noodles, pineapple chicken, mushroom chicken, egg rolls and a bottle of water from Patti's Chinese Kitchen.

[1stwahine]

http://i263.photobucket.com/albums/ii121/1stwahine3/Picture229.jpg

All Pau...mahalo.:p

Auntie Lynn

[OahuGirl]

How do I get to Blazin Steaks from Hickam?

[1stwahine]

How do I get to Blazin Steaks from Hickam?

K-den. I going make dis the best I know how.

Come out of the gate. Stay on your right. Hmmmmm get on Nimitz Hwy.

Make left on Waikamilo Road. Go all the way down till you come on the intersection of N. King and Waikamilo Rd.

Make right on N. King Street.

You will see the roof and sign of Blazin' Steaks!:D

Mahalo foa the PM.;)

Auntie Lynn

[helen]

Double cheeseburgers and a cup of fruit punch from McDonalds.

[1stwahine]

Chicken Teriyaki, Sashimi, Shrimp Tempura Deluxe Dinner Plate from Hifumi at Chinese Cultural Plaza.

Complimentary vanilla ice-cream.:)

Auntie Lynn

[tutusue]

Dinner? Hmmm...oh shoots, I forgot about it. Still working...:(

[OahuGirl]

Blazin steaks rice,salad and some sierra mist. Thanks for the directions! It was delicious!

[1stwahine]

http://i263.photobucket.com/albums/ii121/1stwahine3/Picture230.jpg
Chicharon (Deep fried pork) den sliced thin mixed with fresh tomato and onions in savory sauce of patis.;)

Served with hot steamed rice and side dishes of kim chee.

Onolicious!

Auntie Lynn

[helen]

Slice of pizza, beef tornadoes and a cup of fruit punch from Sam's Club.

[helen]

Noodles, lemon chicken, mushroom chicken and a bottle of water from Patti's Chinese Kitchen.

[helen]

Noodles, pork, chicken and a bottle of water from Patti's Chinese Kitchen.

[helen]

Chicken Cutlet, fries, salad, fruit cup, fruit punch and a serving of ice cream from LikeLike Drive Inn.

[helen]

Triple dip chicken strips combo, chicken thigh and a cup of Mountain Dew from KFC.

[cynsaligia]

we tried fat greek (http://www.kaimukihawaii.com/businesses/current/3544.html) on waialae across from kaimuki city mill tonight. we shared the mussels (served cold with a light dressing of olive oil, capers, lemon & herbs/spices/aromatics), dolmades (rice & herb stuffed vine leaves). eric ordered the lamb shawerma and i got the lamb souvlaki. both were stuffed into warm pita bread and dressed with tsaziki sauce. plus bottomless soda, the meal came out to $30.00. portions on the apps were more than we expected; portions on entree were, IIRC, slightly smaller than can be had at greek corner at puck's alley. i think prices are within a couple bucks of each other, with fat greek being the more affordable. taste was quite good. it's an order at the counter and they tell you when it's ready place. but the joint is quite classy looking, what with a fountain in the al fresca dining area. in fact, if you check out the link above, you'll see that it looks nothing like it used to when boston pizza was there. despite the lack of a server, the staff and the owner were very friendly and welcoming. we'd definitely go there again.

menu is also at the website linked above.

[Sero1]

Heh rice and chicken noodle soup :D

[helen]

Fried noddles, sausages and a cup of Mountain Dew from Hungry Lion Inn.

[OahuGirl]

Salmon tacos~ corn tortilla with a avocado,tomato, lime salsa, water an apple and a vitamin. At least that's what I want, no time now. I will have an apple, vitamin and water.

[helen]

Chicken cutlet, loco moco, mac salad, and a cup of Mountain Dew from Mahalo Drive Inn.

[U'ilani]

Chicken cutlet, loco moco, mac salad, and a cup of Mountain Dew from Mahalo Drive Inn.Ooooh, now that sounds awesome--except I'd need a Pepsi instead.

[Sero1]

Egg noodles with fish balls and imitation crab meat. Added Hoisen Sauce too.

[helen]

A couple of cheeseburgers and a cup of Mountain Dew from AAA Local BBQ Inn.

[helen]

Fried rice, char siu, cole slaw, sushi and a bottle of Gatorade.

[1stwahine]

Last night, AbsolutChaos, Nalu, Cran, DiveDown, and I went to Maharajah Restaurant on South King Street near Hausten Lane. The wait was long for a table but it was worth it. It was my first time to eat Indian Cuisine. I can't smell, however, I can taste and everything tasted onolicious. I can't remember the names.heheheh The homemade bread is HUGE!:D They have their own Luau dish too! It was my favorite...reminded me of Beef Luau! Oh! The BBQ Chicken was baked in their special oven that starts with a T.

AbsolutChaos has the pictures.;)

I recommend Maharajah Restaurant!

Auntie Lynn

[leashlaws]

I made french onion soup using Guy Buffet's recipe. Funny, I was talking
with Glossyp last night and she was also making french onion soup as we
were speaking! Cold weather food!;)

[1stwahine]

Uhhhhhh.....excuse me everybody!:o

I made a mistake.

The restaurant we went last night is called Maharani.

Mahalo,

Auntie Lynn

[helen]

Plate lunch, manapua and a bottle of water from Patti's Chinese Kitchen.

[helen]

Ratatouille (http://www.flickr.com/photos/helen_rapozo/2247902636/), cheeseburger (backup for just in case) and a bottle of Diet Coke.

[pzarquon]

My wife gave Chicken Alice's recipe another shot last night (with, of course, Parks Brand kim chee sauce). She's still struggling with keeping the coating on the chicken, but in terms of flavor, it's just right. Ah, the memories!

[kanahina]

Went to Tropical Smoothie Cafe last night for the LOST Party. I had a Chicken Cordon Bleu Wrap and a Peanut Butter Cup Smoothie. Both were onolicious!

:)

[helen]

Pork adobo, fried rice and orange Gatorade from Golden Coin.

[helen]

Ribeye steak, mashed potatoes and red wine from Gordon Biersch.

[helen]

Sushi, poke and a bottle of orange Gatorade from Foodland.

[craigwatanabe]

Cleaned out the chest freezer in the garage and found three bags of frozen turkey bones, one bag of sliced honey glazed ham and frozen laulau. It was like Thanksgiving in February last night. I made jook with the bones. Washed it all down with a cold brewski (Coors Light)

[cynsaligia]

tried brining fowl for the first time ever. used hawaiian salt, fresh ground pepper, rosemary & thyme from the kcc farmer's market in my brine, in which i let chicken thighs swim overnight. then i broiled in eric's convection oven for 20 mins at 500 degrees, brought it down to 400 for another twenty minutes or so. made a side of braised broccoli rabe (also from the famer's market) and served with brown rice and a hunk of salt filone (http://en.puratos.ca/news_events/latest_news/list/filone.aspx) from the monster safeway down the hill, crisped up in the oven and spackled w/butter.

not bad for my first try. :p the skin came out with some crisp and the flesh inside was tender and steamingly moist. but i think next time i'll rinse off the brine or salt the brine a little less.

one thing tho--this little experiment has convinced us brining might be part of the secret behind the chicken at KJ's (http://hawaiithreads.com/showpost.php?p=119349&postcount=36).

mr. scrivener, i should kiss you and buy you a six pack of non-canoe water just for your suggesting KJ's, by the way!

[oggboy]

I must say though, sure looks ono!. I made tripe stew so that is din-din tonite. Lucky thing I made yesterday cause one day ole mo-betta.:D

[Leo Lakio]

Salmon with a wasabi-mayo-teriyaki-furikake sauce, red potatoes grilled in sesame oil, rice and POG.

[helen]

Poki, pasta salad, brown rice sushi and a bottle of water.

[helen]

Burger, onion rings, Diet Coke and an ice cream sundae at Farrell's in Windward Mall.

[craigwatanabe]

Home-made spaghetti. One thing I just discovered when making your spaghetti sauce. If you added too much tomato or it tastes too tomatoey, just add a packet of brown gravy mix to the sauce and it'll bring out the meat flavor over the tomato.

I made my first attempt at spaghetti sauce from scratch and it came out good after I added the gravy mix. Next time I'll stew the tomatoes before adding them to the sauce. I used cherry tomatoes too so I think that made it too tart.

[kani-lehua]

Salmon with a wasabi-mayo-teriyaki-furikake sauce, red potatoes grilled in sesame oil, rice and POG.


mmmmmmmmm! sounds scrumptious! i make the furikake salmon, but minus the mayo. try to stay away from that as much as possible. nothing beats REAL MAYO!

so i made beef broccoli last night. not bad. followed a recipe from some chinese internet site. the meat turned out sooooooo tender, but i think it was missing something.

[helen]

Jumbo Jacks and a bottle of Mountain Dew.

[LikaNui]

Caesar salad, incredibly good garlic bread, baked potato with the works, and a near-perfect filet mignon with bernaise sauce, at Haleiwa Joe's in Kaneohe, while looking at those gorgeous views of the gardens and the Ko`olau right at sunset.
It just doesn't get better than that. [/purr]

[1stwahine]

Aloha everyone! We'll be meeting Kalei for dinner at Likelike Drive Inn at 7:00 p.m. for dinner. We'll be going to Hibiscus Lounge for Karaoke after. Please join us if you're in the area.:D

Auntie Lynn

[1stwahine]

Our get-together with Kalei was full of FuN!:D

Beau, DD, Cranberrie, P.K. and I.

We had dinner at Likelike Drive Inn.

Clam Chowder, Toss Salad and Rolls.

Cokes and Fruit Punches.

Entrees:
1/2 order Fried Rice, Teri-Butterfish, Grilled Butterfish, Breaded Oysters and two Char-broiled Rib-Steaks!

Two Tapioca Puddins. :)

We headed for Hibiscus Lounge after for some drinks and Karaoke. JPhilipson from Twitter.com joined us. Kalei is very beautiful.

We discussed alot of things. heheheh

Auntie Lynn

[helen]

BBQ Chicken plate lunch from Yummy BBQ.

[kani-lehua]

vegetarian chow fun, furikake salmon and stir fry baby bok choy.

[dyasu]

Homemade noodles!

Boiled chinese rice noodle
Arabiki Sausage
Chinese Parsely

Soup base made with mushroom vegetable seasoning, seasame oil, salt, sugar, soy sauce, and water.

Pretty good and really simple!

[helen]

Hot dogs, tornados and a cup of Diet Coke from Sam's Club.

[1stwahine]

MAMA is not feeling well. Her favorite food is Japanese Cuisine. So I asked my friends on Twitter.com earlier today. Scrivener suggested Ideta. Located in Kalihi by Kapalama Canal. My heart of town.:)

What a delight to go again. The place is clean and the menu ~ so much to choose from. Prices are reasonable to the extreme. There's a sushi bar too. Our waitress, Cathy was friendly.

I wish I could say the same for the Hostess.:rolleyes:

We ordered Pork Tofu, Fried Oysters, Ahi Sashimi and Shrimp Tempura.

Anyways, da Food ~ EXCELLENT!

Auntie Lynn

[helen]

Cajun pizza (http://www.flickr.com/photos/helen_rapozo/2387116188/) from California Pizza Kitchen and water. Dessert was a hot fudge brownie sundae.

[kani-lehua]

last night: whole wheat pasta with a vegetable and chicken sauce. pan fried the chicken in olive oil and garlic. then cut it into bite size pieces. sauted zucchini, onions, and bell peppers. added diced tomatoes and this spaghetti spice mix from sam's club. simmered it for app. 15 min. then topped it with parsely. yum. tonight it's momomo. hope they have the hamachi collar.

[craigwatanabe]

last night: whole wheat pasta with a vegetable and chicken sauce. pan fried the chicken in olive oil and garlic. then cut it into bite size pieces. sauted zucchini, onions, and bell peppers. added diced tomatoes and this spaghetti spice mix from sam's club. simmered it for app. 15 min. then topped it with parsely. yum. tonight it's momomo. hope they have the hamachi collar.

Next time when you pan fry using olive oil add some basalmic vinegar to really bring out the seared flavor of chicken. Chicken and basalmic vinegar cooked together bring out this incredable marriage of flavor. The result is like your taste buds having an orgasm:eek::D

[kani-lehua]

Next time when you pan fry using olive oil add some basalmic vinegar to really bring out the seared flavor of chicken. Chicken and basalmic vinegar cooked together bring out this incredable marriage of flavor. The result is like your taste buds having an orgasm:eek::D


oh, oh! what will the neighbors think? ah, who cares. yes. i never thought of that. you can do wonders with balsamic vinegar. balsamic vinegar and sugar brought to a slow boil then drizzled on strawberries. can add vanilla ice cream. sorry, off thread.

[1stwahine]

Tonight was Mexican Food! And what an EXCELLENT Find!:D

Right in the heart of Kalihi! On School Street across from Helena's Hawaiian Foods. The old Ayala's. I forgot to get the name of the place....I was too excited...nah, I was hungry. Den afta I was too full.:p

Complimentary Tortilla Chips with Salsa. We ordered Guacamole and the sizzling Mushroom with Montery Jack Cheese.

MAMA ordered a floured tortilla with everything in it. It was HUGE. I ordered the Chile Verde Plate. It gave me amnesia. ha ha ha

Tall Glasses of Iced Tea and the sweet sounds of a Mexican Man who sang.:D

Cha Cha Cha.

Auntie Lynn

[kani-lehua]

last night at momomo: grilled hamachi collar, spicy ramen, warm tofu, gyoza, chicken teriyaki and beef shabu shabu in cooked in soy milk(not that great) and rice. no sushi or raw oysters available. the chef went back to japan.

[kani-lehua]

wild rice tabouleh (salad) and edamame imitation guacamole (i think it should be called edamame hummus, but spinach is also added). both recipes are taking from, "a dash of aloha, healthy hawai'i cuisine and lifestyle" recipe book.

[craigwatanabe]

Making Beef Stew for tonight.

[kani-lehua]

last night: chicken taco salad (without the taco part just the flavor), homemade guacamole and salsa.

[Leo Lakio]

Tonight - the Outlaws from Kane`ohe are in town, along with another O`ahu guest, so we're having a kanikapila - and laulau.

[cynsaligia]

Tonight was Mexican Food! And what an EXCELLENT Find!:D

Right in the heart of Kalihi! On School Street across from Helena's Hawaiian Foods. The old Ayala's. I forgot to get the name of the place....

isn't that place simply called...mexico restaurant (http://honoluluweekly.com/restaurants/2007/01/tacos-and-mariachi/)?

dinner last night came via a waikiki adventure. eric, our friend sam and i went to rumfire at the sheraton to enjoy the crab cakes with lemon verbena mojito shooter, meyer lemon tarragon aioli, the hoisin bbq sauce & mango chimichurri ribs, tobacco maui onion rings, and mahi tacos with asian guacamole, ginger-mango relish, shaved won bok slaw. we ordered three of their specialties: ginger essence white sangria (YUM!), sunset-tini (good), and the fire tea (boring). it's in the old esprit nightclub site, so it's a great place to bring a date, what with the ocean view & friendly, if not completely smooth, service and atmosphere. we all agreed it's a thirty-something version of the W.

we then went to tsunami's waikiki (http://www.tsunamiswaikiki.com/) on kuhio for guiness (sam & eric). i normally order stoli preses but absolut was on special so i got my pres (http://www.bardrinks.com/drinks/drink.asp?id=fs000470) with absolut instead ( i also prefer ginger ale, not 7up, in my preses). we hoped the pizza guy would be in when we got there but no dice--their one pizza guy wasn't there. bummer--they have the best pizza in waiks. but they were playing a lot of 90s alt-rock so that was fine.

then we wandered onto kuhio, peeking into lotus sound bar (http://www.lotusoundbar.com/), scruples (http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2006/Jul/28/en/FP607280301.html), and mad dog (http://www.yelp.com/biz/maddog-saloon-waikiki-honolulu). we eventually sauntered into kelly o'neill's (http://www.irishpubhawaii.com/kelleyoneils/index.html) for more guiness and great live music.

finally, we stumbled out of KON & each grabbed a garlic sauced hot dog from the stand in front of moose's (ah, memories of drunken hot dog eating from back when i used to be a friday regular at moose's!). we ate them while traipsing the makai side of lewers. there was a line of college kids waiting to get into senor frog's (http://www.yelp.com/biz/senor-frogs-honolulu), which we found amusing (we never were the "wait in line to get into a club" kind of peeps). eric thinks the glass structures overhead look like dotted toilet paper. *shrug* of course we miss house of hong (karaoke, derriere-grabbing) and the cellar (great music, steamy dance floor, the dolla bills on the ceiling). but we might check out yard house sometime.

hmm. i guess our dinner last night was half liquid.

[kani-lehua]

cyn: sounds like you had a great time! THE CELLAR!!! wow! showing my age now.

anyway, tonight's dinner: chop steak. yum!

[helen]

Slice of pizza, chicken tornadoes and a cup of fruit punch from Sam's Club.

[tutusue]

Green salad with diced, roasted chicken, edamame, corn, cheese and bacon bits. Easy!

[cynsaligia]

cyn: sounds like you had a great time! THE CELLAR!!! wow! showing my age now.

anyway, tonight's dinner: chop steak. yum!

we did! we haven't done any kind of bar hopping in years so our mini crawl was fun.

your post reminds me that i've never made chop steak. *having thoughts*

anyway, tonight eric and i decided to have another waikiki adventure. we went to rum fire again, this time for sunset cocktails in the "fire pit," an astroturfed outside area with relaxed seating highlighted by...fire pits (video at this link (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZfr_hJPZeY)). because we were just adjacent to the pool area, we were able to enjoy karla akiona's halau's performance, too.

after relishing the deconstructed pina colada (perfect if you're like eric and not a fan of blended drinks), cucumber & lavendar mojito (our server's favorite), ginger essence white sangria (i ordered this two nights ago; eric liked it so much he ordered it for himself last night) and the fire hydrate (for the tastiest "hammered & buzzed" experience i've had), we ambled over to the hyatt. thanks largely to this post in the japanese food thread (http://www.hawaiithreads.com/showpost.php?p=133074&postcount=11), we made reservations at musashi and had the pleasure of enjoying kevin matsuda's performance. totally fun & omigawd, the food was ono--and there was so much of it! pomai pretty much summed up the experience well.

[SusieMisajon]

Boiled potatoes tossed with butter and fines herbs.

[cynsaligia]

leftover homemade pork adobo with oki potatoes, spiced up with fresh chopped jalapenoes. plus a salad of red leaf lettuce, mint, thai basil, and american parsley, all torn up & tossed together with a lil of angelo pietro's ume dressing.

happy tummies here!

[lavagal]

homemade chicken piccata with the last Meyer lemon from the most recent crop squeezed all over its capers and mushrooms. Whole-wheat linguine, fresh, steamed broccoli. Leftovers for my man. He'll have a nice dinner to take to work tomorrow.

I'm actually thinking of renaming chicken piccata "PMS Chicken" as I pound the itsh out of it and it feels good. LOL!

[helen]

Various sushi and a bottle of orange Gatorade.

[kani-lehua]

well, with all the talk about adobo, i decided that's what's for dinner tonight.

[helen]

Cheesy Meaty combo with pizza and a cup of Baja Mountain Dew from Taco Bell.

[SusieMisajon]

Homemade bread and soup.

Pumpkin and potato soup. Fry an onion and some garlic, add water and stock, cut in a potato or two and a good sized chunk of pumpkin, add a bayleaf and celery. Simmer til tender, then add a few triangle laughing cow cheeses and mix with the wand blender.

It was also very good served cold with croutons for lunch, today.

[Leo Lakio]

Sunday night: food poisoning, so...
Monday night: ginger ale
Tonight: who knows? Maybe soup.

(Feeling much better now, thanks for asking. Between Sunday night and now - Tuesday afternoon - I've had three saltines and plenty liquids.)

[SusieMisajon]

Sunday night: food poisoning, so...
Monday night: ginger ale
Tonight: who knows? Maybe soup.

(Feeling much better now, thanks for asking. Between Sunday night and now - Tuesday afternoon - I've had three saltines and plenty liquids.)
What happened to make you so ill?

[kani-lehua]

What happened to make you so ill?

must have been the "outlaws"?!:eek:

[Leo Lakio]

What happened to make you so ill?
must have been the "outlaws"?!:eek:Heh - nah, I think it was the chicken dish at the restaurant we went to that night. It wasn't very good going down, and even worse upon its repeat visits. I know it's hard to confirm what causes f.p., but there were a lot of dots to connect to this one meal.

It sucked that we were hours away from home at the time, so I couldn't really rest for quite a while, and couldn't even keep liquids down, so I was worried about dehydration. You know what I wanted more than anything else at the time? Shave ice. Didn't even want any flavor - just that fine, beautiful coolness - "sno-cones" on the Mainland are no comparison.

[helen]

Sushi and a bottle of Orange Gatorade.

[Karen]

Teriyaki salmon on top of a bowl of raw spinach, green onion and shallot, cocktail tomatoes, half a cucumber and a few green olives, and lowfat sour cream stirred in all of that which I will cut with cutlery scissors. Burp........

[kani-lehua]

had breakfast for dinner: cinnamon/raisin bagel with fat free cream cheese and a banana.

[craigwatanabe]

Tonight I made shoyu chicken

Last night I made Corn Beef (brisket) and Cabbage.

Tomorrow I'll probably make Pork Tofu or Curry.

[kani-lehua]

Tonight I made shoyu chicken

Last night I made Corn Beef (brisket) and Cabbage.

Tomorrow I'll probably make Pork Tofu or Curry.

all the above sounds delicious. no left overs? lol.

tonight it's whole wheat spaghetti with ground turkey.

[craigwatanabe]

all the above sounds delicious. no left overs? lol.

tonight it's whole wheat spaghetti with ground turkey.

With my family size...what leftovers!:D

[sansei]

:) hi this is sansei and tonight for our dinner,we had pork chop's that my mom cooked on our frying pan with a small amount of oil and we had rice with it and vinegar cucumber's with radish and it was all yum! i also have my Diet soda and my mom has her water..


well thank's for your time:)

[kanahina]

dinner tonight was from Hapa Grill in Kapolei:

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b127/kanahina/DSC00838.jpg
Roast Pork and Teri Chicken with mashed potatoes and potato macaroni salad.

more pics (of the hubby's dinner, appetizer, and dessert, of course!) posted on my flickr account:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kanahina/

[kani-lehua]

roasted potatoes (down to earth's recipe) and greek style chicken (recipe from the honolulu star bulletin).

[cynsaligia]

eric and i picked up a roast pork & ahi poke plate from alicia's market on mokauea st, then drove over to ala moana beach & parked. as we gobbled the juicy roast pork and lovely bits of sea asparagus that commingled enticingly with the ahi and enjoyed the view from the car, we noticed that just twenty feet from us was a film crew. turned out kalai miller (i refuse to put the `okina in his name; he always pronounced it kah-lie, never kuh-luh-ee when we were in high school) was doing something you'd have to pay me money to be interested in. if alicia's food wasn't so damn good, i would have gotten bad indigestion & puked it out as a demonstration of what i think of the self-satisfied, spoiled & arrogant poser.

oh, the roast pork & ahi poke plate comes with a hefty scoop of rice and potato-pea-imitation crab salad, for about nine bucks. enough to feed me and eric quite satisfyingly. alicia's offers roast sirloin, turkey tails, roast chicken and an array of yummy poke. don't let the industrial kalihi neighborhood scare you (it once figured in a scene from "dog the bounty hunter") bcs the staff at the family-owned market/local-style deli are friendly and the food is worth it!

[kani-lehua]

misoyaki salmon and vegetarian chow fun (just can't get enough of that stuff).

[cyleet99]

:D Char siu chicken leftovers from the picnic.....YUM!

[sansei]

:) hi this is sansei and tonight for our dinner,we had fried soba and a cucumber and lettuce salad and everything was yum!

Well thank's for your time:)

[cynsaligia]

i came home from a long day of work & school, carrying an empty, over-caffeinated belly. i was welcomed by a warm home, fragrant with the scent of eric's cooking.

his creation? a fritata of garlic, shanghai cabbage, jalapenos, and kim chee. it was accented with fresh basil, american parsley, & kalamata olives. we had brown rice & kombu (http://www.kgrocer.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID=1781) as well as iriko (prepared japanese anchovies) on the side. it went quite well with the 2005 beaulieu vineyard coastal estates cab sav (http://www.garnetwine.com/sku009753.html).

sounds like a mishmash of flavors (i wouldn't have put them together) but it worked! i was delightfully surprised when i followed a bite of the brown rice & kombu with a sip of the cab sav and was rewarded with a sweetness the wine had never displayed before.

dessert was breyer's natural vanilla ice cream along with frozen reese's peanut butter cups. eric, pulling from his experience as a fine dining server, chilled the bowl with iced water before dolloping out the ice cream.

dunno who loves that man more - me or my tummy.

[kani-lehua]

last night: vegetarian summer rolls from downt to earth.

tonight: thai red curry

[craigwatanabe]

So I'm making Curry tonight and as I'm chopping up the carrots and adding peanut butter for a bit of Thai flavor, I dip a carrot stick in the peanut butter and wow what a great taste combination? Great snack that's healthy too!

[cynsaligia]

I dip a carrot stick in the peanut butter and wow what a great taste combination? Great snack that's healthy too!

i am both happy and sad for you that you (finally) discovered this. :p

[kani-lehua]

last night: thai spicy veggie curry and beef tomato.

[TATTRAT]

Thai braised chicken thighs, with ginger, lemongrass, soy, fish sauce, cilantro, mint, sesame oil, and red curry paste...marinated overnight, seared off, and covered to let go low and slow. Served with wilted cabbage, peppers, cucumber and bean sprouts and mint scented sticky rice.

[craigwatanabe]

i am both happy and sad for you that you (finally) discovered this. :p

I know, oh well sometimes it's better late than never. Although I've been eating apple/peanut butter/alfalfa sprout sandwiches since 1974.:)

[cyleet99]

Catfish Stew! Whole pot gone now...darn.:(

[sansei]

:o hi this is sansei and tonight we had with rice i had leftover homemade curry with what my mom cooked on our frying pan,portugese sausage and a fried egg with miso and my mom had her rice with fried portugese sausage with the other half of a fried egg with miso and we had lettuce salad with cucmber's and it was all delicious.

Well thank's for your time:o

[1stwahine]

Prime-Rib/Roast Pork/Fried Chicken Wing
Mashed Potato
Gravy

Yeah...I'm on a Diet but tonight was an exception.:rolleyes:

I was really really HUNGRY!

Auntie Lynn

[SusieMisajon]

I have been canning pink pacific salmon all week (cheap at two euros a kilo, frozen, no head), and tonight I opened a jar to try and mashed it with egg, breadcrmbs, parsley, and chopped onion and then fried it in patties. Made some coleslaw to go with it...cabbage shredded thinly and a leftover jar of sweetcorn, tossed with a vinaigrette and mayonnaise (salt and pepper, french mustard, a lump of sugar, three spoons of oil and one of red wine vinegar, shake with a big glop of mayonnaise)....and homemade fries.

If you want to try canning salmon, I can tell you that it works just fine, and it's delicious straight from the jar. I cut a whole salmon, skin and bones and all, into pieces big enough to fit into pint-sized jars, then added a bit of salt and wiped and set the lids...then canned them at ten pounds pressure for 100 minutes. Counting gas and jarlids and fish, this was about a third of the price of the canned salmon in stores.

[kani-lehua]

soba salad with a cilantro/rice vinegar dressing.

[Cnecki]

There is good Mexican Food in Hawaii now? Wow, tried a take out place in the North Shore a couple of years ago. Not so tasty, or authentic.

[SusieMisajon]

I'd canned stewing beef with onion soup mix (fry the chunks, then put them into canning jars and add about half a packet of dry onion soup mix to each jar, top with water, seal, and can at ten pounds pressure for an hour and a quarter)...so I fried a big handful of mushrooms in a blob of butter, added, thyme, dehydrated celery, dehydrated ground sweet bell peppers, a bayleaf, paprika, garlic, a jar of carrots and a can of canned thick cream (Media Crema) to the original can of meat and sauce, simmered it for a bit, and served it over boiled noodles. Mmmm!

[cynsaligia]

on sunday, i tried a twist on this recipe (http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/recipes/recipe/0,1977,FOOD_9936_36075,00.html) called "wild boar" from dinner impossible, but made in a smaller quantity using a bone-in boston butt.

i subbed two jalapenos for the habaneros & used tapatio (http://www.tapatiohotsauce.com/index.aspx) hot sauce. i let the butt cook at 350 degrees for two hours in the convection oven, covered with foil. the pork came out juicy & tender but bcs of the fat cap, i removed the foil, drizzled more tapatio on it, and broiled it for about 20 minutes to get some crisp on.

yum! the first night, we ate it with brown rice and a green salad. we're still eating leftovers every night (there's only two of us and we started with about 5 lbs of meat!). in fact, it was tastier the day after. next time, i'll add even more hot sauce and at least twice as many jalapenos, and roast it without the foil for the most part. it's great in a sandwich!

[kani-lehua]

sounds good, cyn. yep! i know how it is to have LEFTOVERS for days. tonight is chicken tofu/hekka of some sort.

[SusieMisajon]

..........so good, I posted it twice!

[SusieMisajon]

I found some chicken thighs/drumsticks on sale, so I bought a few kilos...I cut them into chunks and shook them in a bag with Mexican spice mix, then baked them for a short twenty minutes, stuck them into canning jars and whacked them in the pressure canner for an hour and a quarter at ten pounds pressure.

The canned ones will be eaten, hot or cold, in the months to come, the ones that had no room in the canner have been eaten for dinner after having been baked a bit longer. The ones we ate were baked along with some baby Mona Lisa potatoes that I'd canned last year (half an hour, ten pounds pressure), whole, skins and all...and they browned and glistened with the oil and spices from the chicken...YUM!

Along with the chicken and potatoes, there was sweet corn on the cob, found way down at the bottom of the freezer, where it's been since we picked it up from the trucks delivering to the Green Giant corn plant down the road....it goes straight into the freezer from the fields, husks and all, the microwaved like that or husked and tossed into boiling water to cook.

[kani-lehua]

last night: teriyaki style steak and cole slaw

tonight: turkey chili with mushrooms, onions and two kinds of beans added.

[helen]

Double cheeseburgers and chicken McNuggets from McDonalds washed down by a can of Mountain Dew.

[cynsaligia]

safeway's stompin steakhouse chili with beans (http://shop.safeway.com/corporate/safeway/shop/soup_recipes.asp) over brown rice, doctored with chopped parsley, tapatio hot sauce, plus a few cubes of colby and pepper jack. i'm also nibbling on some pickled limu and dried aku that eric picked up this afternoon from ono seafood, which we agree with pomai (http://tastyisland.wordpress.com/2008/02/18/made-to-order-poke-at-ono-seafood/), has the best poke in town.

in the meanwhile, tomorrow's dinner is starting in the convection oven. i started a chuck roast seasoned with salt, pepper & garlic powder then encrusted with chili powder, cumin, paprika, oregano, cinnamon & unsweetened cocoa powder. after searing in high heat, i'll bring the temp down, douse it with our last bottle of mac's blackwatch (http://www.macsbeer.com/brews_blackwatch.php) (note for scriv: not as good as black butte's porter (http://www.deschutesbrewery.com/BrewPub/OnTap/5832.aspx)), and continue to cook. i plan to cut it up for cinco de mayo tacos tomorrow night. i might add some dona maria mole sauce (http://www.asiamex.com/proddetail.cfm?CFID=447999&CFTOKEN=683248&ItemID=458&CategoryID=31&SubCatID=97), too--we picked it up on a whim at safeway. anyway, this crust recipe is an experiment based on a chili seasoning recipe of eric's. i'll let you guys know how this goes.

[kani-lehua]

ground turkey stroganoff (sp) with no yolk noodles.

[SusieMisajon]

Rabbit stew.

[craigwatanabe]

Tonight I made hamburger curry, but added some teriyaki sauce to give the ground beef some punch. My kids loved it so much I think I'll make it weekly. It's cheap and easy and a better way to stretch a pound of hamburger than using hamburger helper.

[SusieMisajon]

My Mom used to make meatloaf, and she'd put half the meat in the pan, then line up hard-boiled, shelled eggs in a line down the middle, then top with the rest of the beef and bake....each slice would have a slice of egg in the center.

[kani-lehua]

chicken encrusted with a mixture of mayo (the reduced fat kind), mustard and almonds accompanied by beets (first time cooking my own).

[craigwatanabe]

Tonight it's teriyaki chicken maranated all morning and slow cooked all afternoon...and rice of course!

[tutusue]

Had a delish dinner at Indigo's...
Grilled Rib Eye Beef with Black Peppercorn Sauce and Shiitake Mushrooms and Mashed Potatoes...
Got to bring half of it home for lunch tomorrow.
Then the table shared a chocolate cloud thingie that was to die for!

[kani-lehua]

either left over chicken from last night or italian turkey sausage with some kind of pasta.

[kani-lehua]

antacid. i knew it was going to happen, but i ate it any way. hadn't had yami yogurt in years and it triggered my acid reflux. burp.

[helen]

Lobster sausage, Mac&Cheese and cup of Mountain Dew from Hank Haute Dogs.

[helen]

Double cheeseburgers, McChicken sandwich and a cup of fruit punch from McDonalds.

[kani-lehua]

last night: fried fish and cucumber salad.

tonight: black bean chicken with onions and bell peppers and veggie chow fun.

[cynsaligia]

eric and i shared a turkey bacon/jalapeno/tomato scramble last night, and downed it with sam adam's black lager. mmmmm! beeeeeeer! :D

[craigwatanabe]

Last night my wife gave me a break from cooking. She went to our grill and grilled up some massive 2-inch thick boneless pork chops from Safeway using a salt, herbs and a cayenne pepper rub that was to die for. Polished it off with a Smirnoff Iced beer and this satisfied puppy went lights out by 9pm.

My wife sure knows how to love me...thru my tummy.:)

[helen]

2 choice plate with noodles and a cup of Mountain Dew from Panda Express.

[helen]

Something called the Big Box Meal (or something like it) from Taco Bell.

[cynsaligia]

i don't have time to describe it much, but two nights ago, eric and i went to los chaparros (http://www.loschaparros.com/) on beretania.

we started the meal with matching shots of don julio anejo (woo hoo! great way to soothe a canker sore (http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/canker-sore/DS00354) on the back of my throat!). then came the red snapper ceviche. the owners tell you to add as much hot sauce as you like yourself, so you can make it spicy or enjoy it as is (it's tasty w/o the tapatio, but we like it hot). eric ordered the chicken mole, and the sauce was a deep savory cocoa experience. i had the chili verde. the pork was tender and the sauce seasoned quite well with herbs. actually, the seasoning is the thing at LC. refried beans can be bland but theirs is brightened by seasonings like cumin. neither are they fatty. we drank carta blanca whilst eating our entrees. dessert was a flan and a b-52 coffee (italian coffee, grand marnier, kahlua, bailey's).

it's my new favorite mexican restaurant. here's nadine kam's review (http://starbulletin.com/2006/04/16/features/eater.html).

oh, and then we went to see iron man. so cool have only 20 people in the same theatre as you, and all of them relatively quiet so you can fully enjoy the show. loved the movie!

[kani-lehua]

sam's club rotisserie chicken tossed with penne pasta and grilled veggies.

[helen]

Chicken McNuggets, Southern Style Chicken (http://www.hawaiithreads.com/showthread.php?t=15138) sandwich and a cup of Diet Coke from the Ala Moana McDonalds.

[kani-lehua]

laulau and lomi sardines (sardines, tomatoes and onions with shoyu).

[helen]

Mac & Cheese, a couple of hot dogs and a cup of Mountain Dew from Hank's Haute Dog.

[kani-lehua]

beef roast, baked potatoes and tomato w/basil and cheese salad.