first edition of the “Hawaiian Style Musubi Cookbook” (Nov. 2016). A unique collection of over 80 delicious recipes inspired by local island cuisine and tailored to making musubi. It includes many beef, chicken, fish and vegetable varieties. This is Hawaii’s first recipe book dedicated to making a variety of rectangular shaped musubi. Written by Ashley Oshiro and Tom …
Many of Hawai’i’s favorite local dishes are really simplified basic recipes that can be prepared using only regularly stocked ingredients in the typical pantry or refrigerator. With today’s busy schedules, traffic jams, and growing costs, here is the answer for simple meals that can be put together without another stop at the supermarket. These over forty recipes deliver. …
Food and family in Hawai’i go hand-in-hand. Seldom is there a gathering large or small without an array of favorite foods packed tightly together on a dining room table. Everyone looks forward to ‘ohana get-togethers and reunions where all the favorite dishes from the grandmas, aunties, uncles, and cousins are savored and enjoyed. Like one big family reunion, …
Poke is Hawaii s food, popular everywhere in the Islands and now in many places on the mainland U.S. as well. There are so many ways to make poke so many directions to go. Just about anything can be done. Anyone can become a creative chef mixing and matching their favorite seafood or other ingredient with the basics …
A Korean Kitchen: Traditonal Recipes With an Island Twist (Hawaii Cooks)
Kalbi, kimchi, meat chon and mandu are some of the delectable Korean dishes we love in Hawai’i. But did you know that some of these dishes are unique to Hawai’i in the way they are prepared and served? Food writer Joan Namkoong, a second generation Korean American, draws on her island heritage to explain the Korean kitchen in …
Lilikoi, one of Hawaii’s most distinctive fruits, is known for its sweet tart taste, intoxicating fragrance, and exquisite color. Bartenders use lilikoi, Hawaiian for passion fruit in exotic drinks, bakers add it to wedding and luau cakes, cottage industries use it in jams and jellies, local emporiums rely on it for shave ice, sorbet, sherbet, and ice cream, …
Hurry Up and Wait: Hawaii’s Favorite Recipes for the Pressure Cooker and the Slow Cooker
The pressure cooker and the slow cooker may seem to be devices with little in common. One works fast, the other takes its time. But both yield wholesome, tasty dishes and can go a long way toward the goal of efficiently produced meals for busy families. Hurry Up and Wait is a collection of local-style recipes designed to …
