It is too hot to cook and it is too hot to eat something heavy. Summer meals make us think about what to serve that doesn't take too much preparation nor hides millions of calories. During the summer, there is an abundance of fresh vegetables to use. Take advantage of the season.
Made up a new salad that thought you'd like to try.
3 ears of fresh sweet corn, cut the kernels off of the cob
1 can kidney beans, rinsed and drained
1 Japanese cucumber, cut into small chunks
2 T onion, chopped fine
Italian dressing
Salt and pepper to taste.
Combine the corn, beans, cucumber, and onions in a glass bowl. Add a little salt and pepper. Add Italian dressing (about 2-3 T, depending on the quantity of the salad mix). Mix the salad well, making sure that the dressing has flavored the mix.
Cover with plastic wrap and put in refrigeration one hour before the meal.
A cool light meal with all the food groups included.
Tuesday, July 26, 2011
Tuesday, July 12, 2011
Growing Hair
My hairdresser, Gladys, tells me that I can grow hair like no one else she knows.
Okay, so I am growing my hair for a hula hoike in 2012 or 2013. For the last several months, I have been getting my hair trimmed in preparation for the GROW PERIOD. Any woman will tell you that the worst stage in life's parade of bad hair days is the GROW PERIOD. Too long to be short. Too short to be long. Just an overall state of UGLINESS.
Last week was the last appointment with Gladys. From here on in, I will have to suffer until my sides are long enough to be clamped back with barettes. Of course, my bangs will be a fluffy mess. If you don't know it already, I have plenty of hair, coarse, resilient hair...hair which twisted into ropes could be used to tow a loaded Mac truck. "Be grateful you have so much hair," others tell me. But they have never had to carry a pony tail that is over an inch in diameter. Ha!
My husband and my son love my long hair. Of course, neither of them have had to grow their hair long...long enough to reach the waist length (the best length for a hula dancer). I don't understand why men love long hair. I do know that I don't like it when balding men try to grow their fringe long so that the pony tail is thin and straggly. I have only seen one guy who had long, beautiful, and healthy hair and he looked good in it. He told me it took him four years to grow. He is an anomaly.
Well, we will have to see how the GROW PERIOD will proceed. I will blog again after my hair has grown longer and see if I like it any better. I think I will put it up and pin a couple of double hibiscus flowers in my hair, like the kupuna of my youth. Heaven knows, I have enough hair to hold those huge blooms in my hair.
Okay, so I am growing my hair for a hula hoike in 2012 or 2013. For the last several months, I have been getting my hair trimmed in preparation for the GROW PERIOD. Any woman will tell you that the worst stage in life's parade of bad hair days is the GROW PERIOD. Too long to be short. Too short to be long. Just an overall state of UGLINESS.
Last week was the last appointment with Gladys. From here on in, I will have to suffer until my sides are long enough to be clamped back with barettes. Of course, my bangs will be a fluffy mess. If you don't know it already, I have plenty of hair, coarse, resilient hair...hair which twisted into ropes could be used to tow a loaded Mac truck. "Be grateful you have so much hair," others tell me. But they have never had to carry a pony tail that is over an inch in diameter. Ha!
My husband and my son love my long hair. Of course, neither of them have had to grow their hair long...long enough to reach the waist length (the best length for a hula dancer). I don't understand why men love long hair. I do know that I don't like it when balding men try to grow their fringe long so that the pony tail is thin and straggly. I have only seen one guy who had long, beautiful, and healthy hair and he looked good in it. He told me it took him four years to grow. He is an anomaly.
Well, we will have to see how the GROW PERIOD will proceed. I will blog again after my hair has grown longer and see if I like it any better. I think I will put it up and pin a couple of double hibiscus flowers in my hair, like the kupuna of my youth. Heaven knows, I have enough hair to hold those huge blooms in my hair.
Friday, July 8, 2011
Food - Quality or Quantity
Is it better to go to a well-known establishment's buffet dinner with a million choices and mediocre food OR is it better to have a few things simply and wonderfully cooked? That is the question. Does quantity (variety and servings) trump flavorful food? It seems that when I go to a buffet, I try not to pig out and only taste those thing that seem enticing or wonderful like the chocolate laced bacon at the Mauna Kea Hotel. Yet, at the end of the day, the many tidbits add up to an overstuffed belly and a desire to get home and make a bowl of ramen to round out the meal.
This weekend, we went to Huggo's Restaurant in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii. With its footings in the ocean, one can watch the Kona sunset. We started off with drinks at the bar while waiting for our table. The Happy Hour drinks are $3 each and so our $9 glasses of wine were $3 each. Our table along the ocean side was sunny yet cooled by salty breezes. The mixed greens salad was shared and it was wonderful with sliced hearts of palm and sweet Maui onions to add the crunch to the salad. The dressing was light and sparingly used. I had the New York steak which had a wonderful sauce and a potato au gratin made from four or five times of potatoes and topped with sweet onions which were sauteed. For dessert, I had the honu pie, a cheese cake with a chocolate top and huge chunks of macadamia nuts. The lilikoi and strawberry sauce were combined with chocolate to make a honu or turtle design. Divine!! My husband had the Hualalai Mud Pie which should have come with a warning advising people that this was a HUGE dessert. It stood at least six inches high and that does not include the whipped cream. The service was marvelous and the waithelp very attentive...sometimes something of a rarity these days. The meal which included three glasses of wine, salad, two entrees - NY Steak and prime rib, and two desserts cost a little over $100. Money well worth a wonderful meal and a great way to celebrate a special occasion. For us, it was our 33rd anniversary and the topping was that one of the desserts (the more expensive one) was given to us complimentary!! I highly recommend this establishment.
The only problem is the lack of parking. But do what we did. Get an early reservation. Go to the restaurant about half an hour before the reservation and enjoy the happy hour drink bargains. There were also free appetizers available for the customers. THEN you will indeed have made the best of your HUGGO's experience.
Spend the next hour or so after dinner, walking along Ali'i Drive walking off the wonderful calories you consumed. Bon appetit!!
This weekend, we went to Huggo's Restaurant in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii. With its footings in the ocean, one can watch the Kona sunset. We started off with drinks at the bar while waiting for our table. The Happy Hour drinks are $3 each and so our $9 glasses of wine were $3 each. Our table along the ocean side was sunny yet cooled by salty breezes. The mixed greens salad was shared and it was wonderful with sliced hearts of palm and sweet Maui onions to add the crunch to the salad. The dressing was light and sparingly used. I had the New York steak which had a wonderful sauce and a potato au gratin made from four or five times of potatoes and topped with sweet onions which were sauteed. For dessert, I had the honu pie, a cheese cake with a chocolate top and huge chunks of macadamia nuts. The lilikoi and strawberry sauce were combined with chocolate to make a honu or turtle design. Divine!! My husband had the Hualalai Mud Pie which should have come with a warning advising people that this was a HUGE dessert. It stood at least six inches high and that does not include the whipped cream. The service was marvelous and the waithelp very attentive...sometimes something of a rarity these days. The meal which included three glasses of wine, salad, two entrees - NY Steak and prime rib, and two desserts cost a little over $100. Money well worth a wonderful meal and a great way to celebrate a special occasion. For us, it was our 33rd anniversary and the topping was that one of the desserts (the more expensive one) was given to us complimentary!! I highly recommend this establishment.
The only problem is the lack of parking. But do what we did. Get an early reservation. Go to the restaurant about half an hour before the reservation and enjoy the happy hour drink bargains. There were also free appetizers available for the customers. THEN you will indeed have made the best of your HUGGO's experience.
Spend the next hour or so after dinner, walking along Ali'i Drive walking off the wonderful calories you consumed. Bon appetit!!
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