Category Archives: Food

Happy Birthday SPAM

75 years ago today Hormel Foods registered and trademarked the meat product SPAM. Any card carrying local worth his weight in salted seemoi has one time or another rejoiced in this invention/concoction/food discovery. Mainlanders, I realize may be put off, nay, repulsed by the notion … Continue reading

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Sleeping Around

If you are expecting to read about sexy and salacious randy-bouts STOP reading NOW. My short trip to Oahu this past week was filled with errands, appointments and many items to check off my must do list. It wasn’t all … Continue reading

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Happy Boys Day 5/5

My little neighbor Bodi is only 9 months old. To celebrate his 1st Boys Day I created this cute little fish. Japanese custom is to honor all the boys in the household by dispaying carp, usually by stringing paper carp … Continue reading

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Orange You Happy?

Good Morning March! As I was standing at the sink washing up some dishes, I glanced to my left and this vision of orangishness captured my attention. A vignette of jars of marmalade, ripening tomatoes, an orange cutting board and oh … Continue reading

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Tangerine Juicey

There has been a lot of whirring and slurping going on around our kitchen lately. The tangerine tree in the backyard produced its usual abundance of sweet fruit. The boughs dropped heavy with clusters of ripening tangerines. We found ourselves … Continue reading

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Valentine’s Day

Every day should be Valentine’s Day. Or at least you should treat the ones you love like…well…the ones you love! If it takes Hallmark to coerce you to pay simple attention to someone you care for, then so be it. … Continue reading

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Thanksgiving in Hilo

Between unpacking and sorting the many too many boxes, I took the day off to celebrate my 1st Thanksgiving in Hilo. We spent a glorious Thanksgiving Day at Onekahakaha Beach (pronounced oh-nay-khah-hah-kah-hah) There were plenty of kids splashing and frolicking … Continue reading

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Mango for Miners

That mangos are my favorite fruit comes as no surprise. To celebrate the rescue of the Chilean miners last week I ate the last mango of the season. This mango wasn’t as sweetly luscious as my sister Holly’s Mapulehu but … Continue reading

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10/10/10

TEN TEN TEN. 10/10/10. EE-OH, EE-OH, EE-OH. My glee can hardly be contained. Aparently, I am a teeny bit touched as they say, but I have been waiting for the ee-oh/ee-oh/ee-oh for some time now. And yes, that’s a kinda … Continue reading

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Summer Solstice shoots in with a Sneeze

Instead of swimming and sunning I observe this Summer Solstice of 2010 with snuffling and sneezing. “Bummer”, I grouchily despair aloud noting that my voice was a cold induced husky-sexy. Or at least to my stuffed up ears it sounded … Continue reading

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