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Costco Cuisine: Cashew Chicken recipe

Posted on August 15, 2023

For this dish, nearly every ingredient you need you can get at Costco, and it’s a fancy dish at a great price. The only ingredient you might need to buy elsewhere is…

August exchange: Rau Ram (Vietnamese cilantro)

Posted on August 7, 2023

I’m bringing rau ram to tomorrow’s plant exchange. Lots of rau ram. Turns out, rau ram loves aquaponics systems and like ong choi, just keeps growing and growing. I’m also cooking rau…

Costco Product Review: Sun Tropics Tapioca Boba Pudding with Coconut Milk

Posted on July 29, 2023

This one is a buy-again five-star find. When I saw it yesterday at Hawaii Kai Costco, I wasn’t sure whether to buy it or not. The thing with Costco is that if…

Blue Butterfly Pea

Posted on April 27, 2023

Butterfly pea is a beautiful plant that produces blue and white flowers that can be used for tea and food coloring. It is easy to grow and requires good drainage soil. Here are…

It tastes like cilantro, but does it? Rating the substitutes

Posted on January 20, 2022

Cilantro, the plant we in Hawaii once knew as Chinese parsley, is a gardener’s frustration.

It’s slow to sprout, and once it gets above ground, a feast for slugs and snails. Then, if we’re lucky enough to get a few leaves of it, it goes to seed in the hot Hawaii sun.

We hear that there are plants that are like cilantro, but are there really?

Costco Cuisine: Preparing a Five Pound Bag of Lemons for Future Use

Posted on September 26, 2021

Whether you shop at Sam’s Club, Costco, Chef Zone or Smart and Final, bulk purchases can be daunting.

Here’s a recipe to preserve a full five pounds of lemons for future use. Added benefit: the food tastes better too.

Hurricane Douglas Curry: How to use green papayas

Posted on July 27, 2020

This past Saturday, July 25, 2020, we were expectantly preparing for Hurricane Douglas. My neighbor’s papapa tree had grown too tall, and I had promised her for some time that I’d cut…

Ti Leaf, various colors

Posted on August 15, 2016

Ti Leaf, Green Ti leaf is used for making leis and for wrapping food in for flavor while cooking.  These ornamental plants come in a variety of shapes and colors.  The ones…

Costco Cooking: Easy Chive Kim Chee

Posted on August 10, 2016

  From time to time, I receive a surplus of chives from friends and neighbors.  I also, from time to time, crave chive kim chee. It’s the ultimate in local smelly fermented food….

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