Nigella Lawson’s Pantry-Shelf Chocolate Orange Cake

Quick, easy, aromatic and moist (i.e. amazingly delicious), this cake was a favorite the first time around, just as Nigella promised.  Made with basic ingredients everyone has in their pantry, it’s the perfect go-to dessert when you don’t have much time or can’t make it to the store.  What I love most is the versatility….change [...]

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Good Food & Good Deeds

I volunteer with an organization called Kanu Hawaii, and right now we are in the midst of planning our annual Eat Local Challenge (where we challenge everyone to improve their health, support local businesses and sustainability in our communities by eating only locally grown/produced food for a week – more on this as it gets [...]

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The Hawaii Farmers Market Cookbook – Vol. 2

Every Saturday I stock up on my essentials at the KCC Farmers Market – but there is a huge bounty of fresh, local produce and products that I never purchase, simply because I am not quite sure what to do with it.  Enter the Hawaii Farmers Market Cook Book series.  I have yet to get [...]

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Apple Grand Tortoni

Years ago, I got involved (read: wrangled – what happens when you are the vice principal’s daughter…) as a volunteer in the annual Island School Auction (my high school Alma Mater) as their day-of, on-site event coordinator.  When a girlfriend with Type 1 diabetes discovered this two years ago, she asked me to sit on [...]

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Rocky Recchiuti Brownies

I also found this brownie recipe on the Recchiuti website and thought I would make them in addition to the cookies since we are going to be up there for a few days, and lets face it, you can never have enough dessert lying around right?!  Although I haven’t tried these yet, they look amazing [...]

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Found: Perfect Gifts for Your Favorite Cook

Anthropologie has long been a favorite store of mine (online mostly since we don’t have one in Hawaii); full of creative and unique items I could spend a fortune collecting if allowed.  And as the holidays roll around and I am frantically searching for something different to give, I invariably turn to their site for [...]

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Cookbooks to Love.

“Cooking is not about convenience, and it’s not about shortcuts. Take your time. Move slowly and deliberately, and with great attention.” – Thomas Keller, The French Laundry   I am of the opinion that one can never have enough great cookbooks.  Personally, I read through them like novels, marking the pages I want to try [...]

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Kitchen Chic

Cooking, like fashion, is an art form.  However different the two disciplines may be, the culinary and couture worlds merge flawlessly on the pages of a new cookbook assembled by the the Council of Fashion Designers of America.  The American Fashion Cookbook has 100+ pages of delectable recipes from the likes of Zac Posen, Diane [...]

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The Perfect Gift

I recently called my mom and asked her to mail me a pair of shoes that I needed (for a new cooking adventure).  I opened the box today to find, tucked below the shoes, Julia Child’s Mastering The Art of French Cooking.  Words cannot express my excitement, which is only growing as I sit here [...]

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Christmas Is Just Around The Corner…

And to help you prepare for the many meals you will inevitably be cooking (because what better time is there to splurge and indulge in all of your most favorite foods than the holidays), you might want to pick up Nigella Lawson’s new book ‘Nigella Christmas.’  I was first introduced to Nigella Lawson’s cookbooks when [...]

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