It started with a tweet from @ShareYourTable, and a fuzzy shot of a brownie from The Pineapple Room, Alan Wong’s “ladies-who-lunch” spot tucked in the back of Macy’s in Waikiki’s tony Ala Moana Shopping Center.
I tweeted back that the best reason to hop a plane to Honolulu was The Pineapple Room’s Kalua “BLT.”
Or maybe the [...]
Gingerroot (sometimes just referred to as fresh ginger) is a rhizome plant that grows horizontally, with green shoots above ground and knobby stems below. What grows beneath the soil line is what we use in the kitchen. The shoots are generally not sold, although sometimes you might find them at farmers markets with a small [...]
I bet you thought, by the title, that this post was going to be about fried rice. It is, sort of. Rice will be fried, but not in the way that a traditional, Asian fried rice dish is.
Yes, we’re starting with cooked rice, an egg, of course, and other veggies, but that’s where the similarities [...]
My mother was a sucker for new food products. Finding a Sunday coupon only fueled her enthusiasm for the quirky, bizarre foodstuffs that the Nabisco’s of the world throw at us.
I inherited this trait, albeit with a little different twist. If it’s “gourmet” and “expensive,” it will jump off the shelf and into my shopping [...]
Congratulations to Teresa!
My highly skilled-but-unpaid assistant randomly drew Teresa’s name out of the hat this morning at 7:19 a.m.
Teresa wins an autographed copy of The Great Ranch Cookbook.
Thanks to everyone who participated, and if you did participate, check your inbox because I sent you a little consolation prize email notice.
[Contest now closed. We have a winner! Thanks to all who participated!]
Holy Crap. Cow.
Pen & Fork (the journey begins with a fork…) blog is ONE YEAR OLD!
(And they said it’d never last.)
Actually, no one said that. I made it up.
In honor of being ONE YEAR OLD, I’m handing out completely unfounded awards for some [...]
Back in the day, my girlfriends and I would cruise to Sonic, order a cherry limeade and wait for the boys to show up. Not too long ago, I pulled into a Sonic drive-in and ordered one, just because I was feeling nostalgic. Funny how things that tasted fantastic when you were a kid somehow [...]
Pretty please! With a cherry on top?
Does anyone know how or why that saying came about?After an exhaustive, 5 minute search on Google, I gave up.
I’m not giving up on getting my fill of cherries this season. And it is just about peak season for fresh, sweet cherries.
Curl up on the couch with a big [...]
Salt:
The single most important ingredient in my kitchen.
(After wine, of course, but that’s for me, salt is for the food.)
Recently, a very talented home cook whipped up a gourmet meal for his guests.
As he was plating, he said, “I don’t know, it might need salt.”
He was PLATING, and he hadn’t TASTED it. (Insert screechy noise [...]
