Cream Cheese Stuffed Lychee is a dish I’ve only seen in Hawaii. If anyone else is familiar with it outside of a Hawaii connection, I’d love to hear about it. Canned lychee makes it easy to prepare this recipe without having to peel and pit the lychees yourself. It’s simple enough to make on short […]
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I had been making this Corn and Black Bean Salad for years as an alternative to salsa. The recipe was inspired by the Black Bean and Corn Salsa from the Summer 2014 edition of Island Scene magazine put out by HMSA. After recently resuming watching the Food Network, I learned that this is called Cowboy
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Canned Corned Beef Hash Patties are what kids in Hawaii grew up eating. Hurricane Season in Hawaii began on June 1 and Hawaii households keep about two weeks-worth of canned and other non-perishable food in their cabinets in the event of a bad storm cutting off power to their homes. Canned corned beef and corned
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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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Who knew that pantry staples (ketchup, mustard, vinegar, and Worcestershire sauce) would make such a lovely sloppy joes sauce? What are sloppy joes? Sloppy joes is a dish made with ground beef cooked with a tomato-based sauce. It is served primarily on some type of burger bun or other bread as a sandwich. It’s incredibly
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I learned how to make homemade granola from Ellie Krieger. I loved watching her on The Food Network when I was in college and had access to cable television for the first time in my life. While I learned how to cook from my mom, what I knew was limited to Hawaii recipes and we
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This easy chicken dish with Italian seasoning needs only 5 ingredients and less than 30 minutes to make. You can easily cut this recipe in half if cooking for just one or two people and it’s only 15 minutes tops. We love chicken thighs because they don’t dry out like chicken breasts. They also
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Breakfast can be magical and fun if you change up your breakfast yogurt parfait to a breakfast banana split. Just a touch of chocolate and a cherry on top makes it feel like you’re eating dessert for breakfast without all the guilt! While the traditional banana split has three scoops of ice cream nestled
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