One of my favorite things to regularly make and keep on hand is this Hawaii-Style Cabbage Banchan. Banchan (Korean side dishes) is my favorite part of a Korean BBQ plate lunch in Hawaii. Instead of a side of macaroni or potato salad in a typical Hawaii plate lunch, you get two or four choices of […]
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If you are longing for something different from instant oatmeal packets, try this Basic Muesli Recipe with your pantry ingredients. Breakfast can be a tricky meal because you often need something quick, but during the cold weather months, no one wants to wake up early to cook breakfast from scratch. Quick, processed breakfast options
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This Blueberry Pie Cream of Wheat tastes like a blueberry cream pie without tons of sugar. It’s creamy from the milk, has the taste of a crust from the graham cracker and nuts, and is full of sweet blueberry flavor. This breakfast is on the regular rotation during the cold winter months in my house.
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It’s finally cold enough in Hawaii to need a hot breakfast to get you going in the morning. But it’s even harder to wake up early enough to cook. This oatmeal is done in 10 minutes and includes toasted walnuts, coconut sugar, and fresh bananas. It’s a great way to still have a slightly sweet
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Kimchi Pancake (kimchi jeon) is a great comfort food that’s easy to cook at home. It’s savory, salty, spicy, tangy, and crunchy all in one bite. You can eat it by itself or with a dipping sauce. Kimchi Pancake for One can be eaten as your meal to eat with leftovers or served as banchan
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Spinach Banchan is an easy way to use up any spinach you have in your fridge that is no longer great for a salad. We’ve all had those moments of good intentions when we plan to eat a lot of spinach and buy the one-pound bag from the warehouse store because it’s so cheap. However,
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Everyone will be so surprised when they taste the Garlic Edamame that you make using this recipe. It’s just like what you would get in Hawaii at the local grocery store deli, and better than what you would get at a Japanese restaurant. It’s so simple to make that you will be eating edamame every
This Shoyu Turkey Hot Dog recipe will bring you back to your Hawaii childhood. If you were born and raised in Hawaii, you have had Shoyu Hot Dog (#iykyk). That salty, umami flavor that you can only get with a shoyu/sugar combination glazed over easy to cook hot dogs is the perfect topping for steamed
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This Cranberry Chicken Salad is easy to prepare and will help you save money by making it at home. Growing up, chicken salad for our sandwiches was just canned chicken breast mixed with mayonnaise and a little black pepper. (Tuna salad was prepared the same way.) As an adult buying lunches from the nearby coffee
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I don’t know anyone that has grown up in Hawaii that doesn’t know Kalua Pig and Cabbage. Every family has their own way of making it, but the key components are kalua pig and cabbage. I used to just cook it with some black pepper and Hawaiian salt because it’s so simple. However, I
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