After long winters of snow and cold followed by a barely-there spring, summer is a welcome sight. In New England that means bring on the sun, the warmth, and the summer clam shacks and dairy barns. Several years ago a friend introduced me to Woodman's in Essex. It's...
… you make peach jam, peach jalapeño jam, and peach frozen yogurt I was at Russo's, a local market with beautiful fruits and vegetables. Right in the front of the store were baskets of peaches. I couldn't resist and found myself carting home 13 pounds of the gorgeous...
or what you make when you can't get to Anna Miller's In Hawaii there is a restaurant called Anna Miller's that serves breakfast and other local comfort foods 24-hours a day. We'd often go there in the wee hours of the morning, after doing who knows what all...
The first type of jam I learned how to make is no-cook, freezer jam. The recipe is included in the boxes of Sure Jell pectin that you get at the grocery store. It's pretty easy and you don't have to worry about cooking it long enough, getting air bubbles out of jars,...
As you know I'm a sometimes reluctant, transplanted Bostonian. But this week, like so many, I embraced this city and felt the solidarity with those around me and am proud to call Boston my home. There's nothing I can say that will fully capture the events of this past...
Exploring the city's fabulous food trucks Boston, New York, LA, Honolulu, Fort Worth - I've visited food trucks in all these cities and had some amazing meals. But I haven't experienced a food truck culture like the one in Austin. Last year before we left for SXSW I...
Austin is a great food town. I've been there a few times and I never feel that I have enough time. I was in Austin last month for SXSW Interactive. It's one of the times when I can mix business with pleasure. La Condesa Let's start with one of our favorite places - La...
Updated: December 11, 2018 I was leafing through the October 2012 issue of Martha Stewart Living when I came across this recipe for DIY Instant Oatmeal. I was intrigued as I'd assumed that instant oatmeal went through some sort of processing that wasn't...
Moveable Feast: New Orleans Another Moveable Feast has come and gone leaving only good memories and food comas. The theme of this feast was the foods of New Orleans. We started with Sazaracs, raw oysters, and Oysters Rockefeller. We then moved on to the...
Updated: December 19, 2019 Few people know that the reason I started this blog was because I was on a diet and wanted to do an online journal of the process. ("Ahhh," you say, the blog title makes sense now) As you can see that didn't last long and I decided instead...
Chinese Crispy Skin Pork Belly One of my favorite Chinese dishes is Siu Ji Yuk - crispy skin roast pork belly. I remember going with my grandmother to Chinatown and being handed a delicious morsel when we went to the butcher. It made the whole trip worthwhile. When I...
Updated September 2021 One of my favorite desserts when I'm home is made from Okinawan sweet potatoes, macadamia nuts, and coconut milk. With the exception of the sweet potatoes, all the ingredients are pretty easy to get on the mainland but it's something I really...
Our New Year's Eve Tradition Happy 2013 and welcome to my first post of the year. New Year's Eve in Hawaii is about friends, family, and food - a common theme of this blog. There are some who go to the fancy dress parties drinking champagne and dancing at midnight but...