Aloha e komo mai oukou! Mahalo nui loa na ho’olaule’a me la kaua i ka Coach Kawamoto. This is a pretty basic Spanish Rice and is cooked with oil prior to adding all of the goodies and steaming. This step makes the rice “unsociable”, as my dear friend Victoria at The Halau says. Spanish Rice … Continue reading
Heads up Spartans Fans and Taco Lovers!!! We have the Beer Garden at Municipal Stadium again this Saturday (guaranteed win against UNLV?). Last time was very exciting – thanks to Pete and Mei for cooking and to Coach Kawamoto for organizing. When: Saturday, April 30 1:00 pm – til end of game (game starts at 2:00) … Continue reading
You can put just about anything you want inside of puff pastry to make homemade hot pocket! I promise that you will enjoy this at least 10 times more than a frozen pocket filled with mystery meat. Leftover ham and cheese? Ham and cheese pocket! Leftover tacos? Taco pocket! Leftover meatballs? Meatball pocket! Here, I … Continue reading
For regular readers of this blog, you all know that Friday night is “snack night”. We pretty much just clean out the fridge and make yummy appetizers “snacks” out of its contents. It’s our own way of honoring meals of days past in new and bite-sized ways. Our mom used to call it “clean out the fridge … Continue reading
For those of you who read Cheat Codes – Peeling Pearl Onions, you know that we at CPM love tiny onions. But sometimes tiny onions are a little bigger than others. But not really big enough to be “big” onions. I often wondered – what if I made these almost tiny onions into tiny onion rings … Continue reading
I LOVE tiny onions. I remember our mom putting them in with the pot roast when we were kids. Tiny onions are really a treat for any dish. I buy them in bulk whenever I can get a good price. My only complaint about tiny onions is how tedious they are to peel. But sometimes … Continue reading
I just happened to have a little leftover Crab Chowder. And so what better application for these leftovers than the CPM’s favorite leftover staple – hot dip!?! I served this dip with Ritz crackers but I was really wishing for some plain ol’ Saltines. This hot appetizer is easy to throw together and can be … Continue reading
I managed to get crabs last week. No really, I got crabs. And they were only $5 a pound! That’s like the same price as ground beef! So, with prices like this, crab is on the menu. Typically when we have crab, I heat it up, break off the legs and claws and serve them … Continue reading
I have to thank fellow blogger Mischelle Sandowich at Reformed Health for this simple, delicious, everything-a-chocolate-frosting-should-be, chocolate frosting. This weekend, I was requested to make a cake for my nephew’s baseball team. I was looking for something a little different than my usual go-to recipes for some of the edge detail work. The cake itself was … Continue reading
A while back, CPM was obsessed with figuring out the perfect, scratch-made BBQ Baked Beans – you know – from dried beans – the real deal. We traded bean recipes and little crocks of BBQ beans back and forth for a whole summer trying to get our beans straight. Most of the recipes were came … Continue reading
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