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Lunch and Thunderstorms Woke up with a headache because the pressure of the thunderstorms keeps coming and going so that's a thing. But it's raining which I do love and it's about 81° F so a decent temperature. The cats are all sleepy and except for the southern belle, Harley, who thinks that…

Lunch and Thunderstorms

Woke up with a headache because the pressure of the thunderstorms keeps coming and going so that's a thing. But it's raining which I do love and it's about 81° F so a decent temperature. The cats are all sleepy and except for the southern belle, Harley, who thinks that every time I get something to eat that it means she gets something to eat.

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Tonight's dinner: Steamed taro leaves, roast pork, and rice. I can only get dehydrated Taro leaves here but they work. As close as I can get to a Lau Lau.

Tonight’s dinner: Chinese sweet sour spare ribs. 2 lb pork, cut into cubes. One large can of pineapple chunks in juice. Drain the juice and keep at least one cup of it. This is optional. If you do not have pineapple, you can use a cup of water. One small bag of baby carrots One cup shoyu (soy…

Tonight’s dinner: Chinese sweet sour spare ribs.

2 lb pork, cut into cubes. One large can of pineapple chunks in juice. Drain the juice and keep at least one cup of it. This is optional. If you do not have pineapple, you can use a cup of water. One small bag of baby carrots One cup shoyu (soy sauce) One cup sugar 1 cup white distilled vinegar…

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Lunch: Shoyu Noodles A quick lunch. Shoyu noodles with kamaboko The salad kit I got which was not from the bad batch... Turned out to be mostly cabbage despite what It was advertised as. I find that to be true of most chopped kits and that's kind of rough on the stomach. Since I still had two of…

Lunch: Shoyu Noodles

A quick lunch. Shoyu noodles with kamaboko The salad kit I got which was not from the bad batch... Turned out to be mostly cabbage despite what It was advertised as. I find that to be true of most chopped kits and that's kind of rough on the stomach. Since I still had two of the kits left... Off one of them went into making shoyu noodles.

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Very easy dinner… Tonight's dinner is rice cooker bulgogi and onions. On top of rice of course. Shaved steak marinated in a bulgogi sauce which was shoyu, a little bit of oyster sauce, sweet chili sauce, garlic, ginger, and a little bit of water. And I just let that sit in a Ziploc bag until it's…

Very easy dinner…

Tonight's dinner is rice cooker bulgogi and onions. On top of rice of course. Shaved steak marinated in a bulgogi sauce which was shoyu, a little bit of oyster sauce, sweet chili sauce, garlic, ginger, and a little bit of water. And I just let that sit in a Ziploc bag until it's nice and happy. Wash two cups of rice, put in almost enough water so maybe a couple of milliliters below the index finger line.

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Late Lunch: Rabokki tteokbokki, noodles, tempura gobo fish cake, quail eggs, green onions and gochujang sauce

Here be dragons…. Okay, one of the worst things that can happen when trying to get a post written is that my dictation software decides that it just wants to dump over a decade of accuracy training and just not work anymore. It is a pain in the ass because I pretty much have to retrain it to…

Here be dragons….

Okay, one of the worst things that can happen when trying to get a post written is that my dictation software decides that it just wants to dump over a decade of accuracy training and just not work anymore. It is a pain in the ass because I pretty much have to retrain it to understand everything that I have ever written.

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Noodles! Tonight's dinner is something quick... Roasted ginger chicken and shoyu noodles

Noodles!

Tonight's dinner is something quick... Roasted ginger chicken and shoyu noodles

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Tonight's dinner: beef hekka. Classic Hawai'i local (kama'aina) dish. Recipe in the alt text on the photo

Beef Hekka

Normally this is with rice noodles but I didn't want noodles tonight so it's going to be over rice. You can make whatever protein you want with this. I just did beef this time because I had it. Traditionally it's chicken but people use whatever they like.

1/2 lb Thinly sliced beef
3/4 lb Cubed extra firm tofu... Drain well.
Sliced sweet onions ... One medium
Sliced or minced green onions ... Quarter of a cup. More if you want.
Bean sprouts ... Maybe one cup
Sliced bamboo shoots ... One small can
4 T Shoyu
4 T Dark shoyu
2 T Ginger ... Less if you don't like it
1 T Garlic
Minced chili peppers to heat level you (optional)
About 2 tablespoons of sugar
Cornstarch slurry to thicken after

Brown / char the meat and the Sweet onions.
Add ginger, garlic, salt, pepper, and minced chilies if you want to use those. Incorporate fully.
Toss in the tofu and mix thoroughly.
Put the bean sprouts, bamboo shoots, minced green onions on top But do not stir in.
Add both types of shoyu and the sugar.
Cover it and let it simmer for 5 minutes.
After the bean sprouts are wilted, stir everything in thoroughly. If there is a lot of liquid, add in the cornstarch slurry in a dribble and stir as you go to thicken.

Traditionally you would have made rice noodles for this and then toss them in but that's a lot and I didn't want to do that so I just did regular rice. I do like it with rice noodles but it usually requires a bigger pot

If you do add rice noodles then you actually have to increase the liquids in the recipe because they are going to soak everything up. And you will want to mostly cook the noodles and then let that drain thoroughly before adding them in. You would add them in under the bean sprouts. And then the rest of the steps are the same.

Noodles!!! Tonight's dinner: beef shoyu noodles.

Noodles!!!

Tonight's dinner: beef shoyu noodles.

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Dinner is .. Tonight's dinner: shoyu chicken and rice.

Dinner is ..

Tonight's dinner: shoyu chicken and rice.

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Tonight's dinner: Chinese style sweet sour spare ribs and of course, rice. See alt text for recipe.

Chinese style sweet sour spare ribs and of course, rice.

Recipe is easy… You can either do it on the stove for an hour or the instapot for about 20 minutes.

1 and 1/2 to 2 lb of pork cut up into pieces. Not too small.

One bag baby carrots

Half a pound of daikon cut into chunks if you can find daikon.

One cup water

One cup brown sugar

One cup shoyu (soy sauce)

One cup white vinegar

Half to 1 tbsp salt

2 tbsp black pepper

a couple of cloves of garlic smashed into pieces… Or a tablespoon or two of garlic powder or garlic in a jar

two tablespoons minced ginger if you have it.

Throw it all in to the pot and let it go do its thing.

Serve with rice or the starch of your choice.

Tonight's dinner: Pan fried snapper, purple rice, Japanese style pickled cucumbers.

I have a huge migraine and I realized I probably should get food in me. My go-to quick food is kimchi and tuna with a little bit of mayonnaise and extra hot sauce. And rice with shoyu. And ice water because I got to get rid of this headache. It is laughing at the ibuprofen.

Kimchi, tuna, and white rice with hot sauce and a little bit of mayonnaise.

Tonight's dinner is hamburger curry and rice. This is Japanese S&B golden curry.

Just not feeling the whole AAPI thing… It is AAPI month and honestly... I'm just not feeling it. There really isn't support. It's not really a thing other than kind of like a participation trophy and if you are a Pacific islander, you're kind of not even up on the podium. And obviously I grew up…

Just not feeling the whole AAPI thing…

It is AAPI month and honestly... I'm just not feeling it. There really isn't support. It's not really a thing other than kind of like a participation trophy and if you are a Pacific islander, you're kind of not even up on the podium. And obviously I grew up in a very Asian focused culture because that's how Hawai'i is. There are other contributing cultures but primarily since the plantation days it has been Asians and of course the Portuguese.

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Tonight's dinner: Hawai'i-style shoyu chicken and rice. It is a braised chicken done in shoyu, garlic, ginger, a little bit of sugar, salt, and pepper. Oh and a little bit of Tabasco peppers.

It is a braised chicken done in shoyu, garlic, ginger, a little bit of sugar, salt, and pepper. Oh and a little bit of Tabasco peppers.

Tonight's Dinner: Italian sausage penne and garlic buttered biscuits.

Her life is so hard...

Tonight's dinner: Lemon pepper cornish game hen with rice and broth gravy.

Tonight's dinner is: S&S saimin. I've topped it with egg, shrimp, spinach, and shiitake mushrooms. Saimin is different than ramen and pretty much Hawai'i origin. Or rather it has stayed there as a unique kind of noodle.

Tonight's dinner is Ginger glazed chicken. Over rice of course.

Tonight's dinner is... Kalua pig and sticky rice.

Tonight's dinner is saimin... ramen... Shared word. With egg omelette and shrimp and green onions. Because I was lazy....

Tonight's dinner: kau yuk over rice. Kau yuk is a Hakka-Chinese pork dish popular in Hawai'i. Old school dish. Much yum. And I finally got the level of pink I wanted. My other fermented tofu was too brown. Much better brand this time.