The rain held off until we were back from our early morning walk along the beach and back. But once we were home, the rain arrived. It made comfort food the order of the day. So here it is. Low fat turkey bacon went in the pan first. While it cooked, I separated the eggs, [...]
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“There is no god but Costco.” So says Ernie Murphy in The Pizza Essay, which first appeared here in mid-2005. So…Television does reruns. Movies have re-releases. So why shouldn’t we enjoy the “Best of…” from prior years? Ernie Murphy’s Pizza Essay is one of my favorites. I don’t know what’s happened to Ernie, who used [...]
We’re over on Maui for a couple of days, and last night got to sit back and watch as several other good cooks competed in the kitchen in preparing a meal for eight, fueled by good drink and good company. Fresh fish served on wilted swiss chard, green beans with tomatoes and garlic, and wonderfully [...]
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For the doubters out there, this was our production last night (Tuesday in NZ, Monday in Hawaii). We again had a failure of will as we looked into various downtown restaurants. Our menu: Chicken & garlic ravioli in a tomato sauce I made up with a can of diced tomatoes, mushrooms, and basil, the latter [...]
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A progress report on our time in New Zealand. Here was the problem last night. We went out walking in the late afternoon, expecting to find just the right restaurant in the central part of Auckland where we would then stop and eat. We never found it. And we were losing steam. What to do? [...]
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When I teed off on the customer service experience at Whole Foods store in Kailua in yesterday’s post, it drew quite a few comments. Today, Whole Foods responded. I appreciate the effort taken to reply. And since there was a lot of back-and-forth about Whole Foods, I’m including the full message here. Aloha Ian, I’m [...]
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We made another run at Whole Foods in Kailua yesterday. It was another disappointment. We were specifically interested in a product called PB2, a dehydrated peanut butter that was featured in “Nutrition Action,” a newsletter from the Center for Science in the Public Interest. The article said it was available at “some” Whole Foods stores. [...]
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Yesterday was my birthday, and I was having trouble getting celebratory. I was stuck in a condominium board meeting for a couple of hours in the middle of the day. Then Meda and I stopped over at Antique Alley to see our friends Paké Zane and Julie Lauster. Paké quickly dug through a pile of [...]
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