Category Archives: Food

What’s the story of watercress?

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On Wednesday, I posted this photo of our evening meal the night before, which featured leftover chicken/vegetable soup I made the previous day, and Meda’s watercress, tomato, and avocado salad.

It drew this comment from an old friend.

Dwane Goodell

Interesting Trivia: There is a small, but excellent, green grocer in our neighborhood in Seattle, run by 1st generation Vietnamese. The first time I went in, after a thorough search, I approached the owner and ask if they had watercress. He regarded me for a moment, then asked, “Are you from Hawaii?”

That surprised me. Is this true? Is the watercress produced by Sumida Farm unique to Hawaii? I know we occasionally see some little miniature bunches of what Safeway says is watercress, and it looks nothing like ours.

I’m curious. What say you?

Election Eve table

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Our dinner table on election eve, that is, not yet another data table with analysis of polling stats. We were ready for an easy meal, and this was just about perfect.

We started out with a pouch of this chicken tikka masala sold at Costco. It was in the freezer, and I pulled it out to thaw earlier in the afternoon. In my experience, it is surprisingly good.

In any case, I added some Whole Foods multi-colored carrots, and sliced a few mushrooms and dropped those in, along with a handful of raisins. Heated until the carrots were cooked. And I served it into bowls over roasted cauliflower with olive oil, garlic, salt and ground pepper.

Meda prepared some toppings–chopped peanuts, cilantro, hot pepper jelly, bacon bits, and a chopped hard-boiled egg. Then a plate of tomatoes, olives, and baby carrots, with a little dip on the side.

Served in vintage shallow bowls by Blue Ridge Potteries, Blue Ridge pattern. With a bottle of red wine.

It turned into quite a feast, culinary and visual! Click on any photo for a larger view!

Tracking where your next meal might come from

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Longtime blogger and all-around techie, Ryan Ozawa, left the following info as a comment. I’ve decided to give it more exposure by reprinting it here.

There’s a whole movement trying to encourage people to patronize restaurants for their delivery or take out services (or even buy gift cards) to help them survive.

I started an open crowdsourced directory:
https://www.hawaiigrinds.com/home

And the data was used by the Hawaii Agricultural Foundation to launch a more professionally curated list:

https://www.foodagogo.org

Okay. So now it’s hopefully easier for you to find and patronize a local restaurant offering to go or delivered meals! Chow down!

Elks Club in Waikiki offering take-out food service on weekends

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Although the Elks Club on the edge of Waikiki is currently closed, they’re offering take-out food service from their kitchen on the weekends. This is an experiment, so if there isn’t much interest, it might be discontinued.

But we stopped by today and picked up a salad (for Meda) and a burger (for me), and both enjoyed a fine lunch!

Here’s the announcement emailed to members, but you don’t have to be a member during the current crisis.

HONOLULU ELKS LODGE 616 will be offering drive-thru food service starting this Friday March 20 and continuing every Friday, Saturday, Sunday 11am-5pm through the month of March. Please phone in your orders at 808-923-5722.

Pick up will be at the Lodge front entrance
2933 Kalakaua Ave · Honolulu, HI 96815 (next door to the Outrigger Canoe Club)

OPEN TO THE COMMUNITY
Menu’s will SUBJECT to times and selections
Cash or Credit Cards Accepted

Caesar Salad $10
Add Shrimp $7 Salmon $6 Chicken $5
Pepperoni Pizza $10
Cheese Pizza $9
Soup of the day $6
Chicken Wings $12
Elk’s Burger w/ FF $12
Pork Chop Plate w/ Mashed & Gravy, Veggies $15
Sizzle Steak and Shrimp Platter w/ rice $18
Tuna Melt w/ FF $9
French Dip w/ FF $15
3 Kalua Pork Sliders w/ Chips $11
Fish and Chips $15