Full of wine and food but enough room for this dessert.   (Sorry about the pictures for this dessert, I think the camera was a little tipsy all night)   This is the last (thank goodness, I’m sure you are saying to yourself) of our recipes from our feast over Thanksgiving weekend. For our Hawaiian [...]

Great make-ahead appetizer for holiday parties. Merry Christmas everyone and here’s a little appetizer you can plan for your New Year’s Eve celebration. I remember my first shrimp appetizer I made as a newly wed. And, it wasn’t as delicious as this shrimp pie. My early years of marriage, I’m sure like most people’s, was [...]

Another fish dish from our Hawaiian Feast.   Juicy, delicious, succulent scallops.   Everyone has friends, but do you have a “foodie friend”? A foodie friend is a friend who loves anything to do with food as much as you do, loves cooking shows, cookbooks, loves to food shop and can make up a recipe [...]

Delicious coconut shrimp from Hawaiian feast night.   I’ve blogged a coconut shrimp recipe before but this is a little different and one of the recipes from our Hawaiian feast on Thanksgiving weekend. My first recipe was coated in an almond meal which can be pretty expensive to buy. This recipe has some Cajun seasoning [...]

Greens for feast day. Bitter, but oh so good.     Hawaiian Feast Day — An all day rain did not dampen our Hawaiian get together. Rigging up a method for cooking our pig and organized chaos in the kitchen ended about 11 p.m. and all the food, drinks, and wine being enjoyed by all. [...]