I know that soup doesn't sound good, but the DH said it was heaven! I took the leftovers from this Love Soup, warmed them and added 1/3 packet of powdered coconut milk and attacked them with my immersion blender (red!)
Then I warmed up some hapa rice - white short grain and brown jasmine - from the freezer.
For the main course, I had thinly sliced beef that I seasoned with salt and pepper. I rolled these slices around blanched asparagus and fastened with toothpicks. Browned the rolls in olive oil, then deglazed with white wine and seasoned with Worcestershire and shoyu.
Next time: I'd flour the outside of the rolls so they'd brown a bit more, use butter to brown in, and deglaze with red wine.
But... that's what I had. It was fast. It was good!
Sorry, no pics - we ate it all!
Otherwise, we've been eating lots of salad with baby greens and cara cara (pink) orange or Bosc pear with local tomatoes from the Waialua farmers' market, slivered red onion and cucumber. Last night, we ate that with salmon filets (the DH ate the skin!) and leftover V Lounge pizza. It was ALL good!
Now, to tackle that kabocha!
Showing posts with label Waialua farmers' market. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Waialua farmers' market. Show all posts
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Thursday, June 2, 2011
Dinner of a previous night - Tomato Soup Variation
It probably sounds like I'm obsessed with tomato soup, but when they are ripe and there are just too many to eat out of hand, soup is a fine choice.
The other night, I made the soup from this post. The tomatoes I bought in Waialua must have gotten squished somehow. Even though they weren't fully ripe, several of them had soft spots, so they went into the soup along with a large ripe one I'd bought from Karen, who sells lovely produce on Fort Street Mall Tuesday, and at Blaisdell on Wednesday.
This time, I also added half a red bell pepper. What glorious color together with a large carrot! We ate this with spelt bread - also from Waialua.
There is just enough left over for someone to have a warming lunch...
The other night, I made the soup from this post. The tomatoes I bought in Waialua must have gotten squished somehow. Even though they weren't fully ripe, several of them had soft spots, so they went into the soup along with a large ripe one I'd bought from Karen, who sells lovely produce on Fort Street Mall Tuesday, and at Blaisdell on Wednesday.
This time, I also added half a red bell pepper. What glorious color together with a large carrot! We ate this with spelt bread - also from Waialua.
There is just enough left over for someone to have a warming lunch...
Wednesday, June 1, 2011
Four Day Weekend and Waialua Farmers Market
Since I returned to working full-time at the end of March, this past weekend was the first where I had FOUR days off in a row! Wonderful!
On Saturday, we took the long drive up to the North Shore of Oahu, and the Waialua Farmers Market. In Waialua, the landmark is the old sugar mill, and the market has brought new life to this area. The library was closed, but the service station was busy - the price of gas has gone back down by fifty cents! Sadly, the Sugar Bar in the old Bank of Hawaii building has closed down. We have memories of gatherings of friends and music!
The market is held in the area fronting the mill, and most of the vendors sell produce. A couple sell Avon or Bath & Body Works; there is also a fellow with fresh fish, another tea drinks in packets, still another has sauces.
We picked up corn, tomatoes, papayas and bananas - the latter fruit at really good prices. We also came away with nice zucchini, and spelt bread and spelt cookies. Yes, spelt tastes different, but I do like the taste.
There was also a woman selling Indonesian food: fish with tomatoes, beef rendang (with curry and coconut milk) and shrimp. Plates of the latter two with rice and mixed vegetables and a gingery topping were lunch!
We ate these at Haleiwa beach park. No turtles this time - it was low tide - but a chicken flew across the road to escape a chasing dog. The people at a nearby picnic table had their cats on leashes, but not their dogs. Go figure!
The dogs were VERY interested in our food. And rightly so - it was delicious!
On Saturday, we took the long drive up to the North Shore of Oahu, and the Waialua Farmers Market. In Waialua, the landmark is the old sugar mill, and the market has brought new life to this area. The library was closed, but the service station was busy - the price of gas has gone back down by fifty cents! Sadly, the Sugar Bar in the old Bank of Hawaii building has closed down. We have memories of gatherings of friends and music!
The market is held in the area fronting the mill, and most of the vendors sell produce. A couple sell Avon or Bath & Body Works; there is also a fellow with fresh fish, another tea drinks in packets, still another has sauces.
We picked up corn, tomatoes, papayas and bananas - the latter fruit at really good prices. We also came away with nice zucchini, and spelt bread and spelt cookies. Yes, spelt tastes different, but I do like the taste.
There was also a woman selling Indonesian food: fish with tomatoes, beef rendang (with curry and coconut milk) and shrimp. Plates of the latter two with rice and mixed vegetables and a gingery topping were lunch!
We ate these at Haleiwa beach park. No turtles this time - it was low tide - but a chicken flew across the road to escape a chasing dog. The people at a nearby picnic table had their cats on leashes, but not their dogs. Go figure!
The dogs were VERY interested in our food. And rightly so - it was delicious!
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Odd thoughts about food
Dinner tonight was corn from the Waialua farmers' market, asparagus and diced red bell pepper with olive oil, balsamic vinegar and garlic salt. Also whole wheat spaghetti tossed with homemade pesto and steelhead salmon seasoned with salt made by a friend's church. There are leftovers of the last two.
DH says that was a very good dinner. Our running joke is from Molly Wizenberg's A Homemade Life, where her father says, "You know, we eat better at home than most people do in restaurants." And, we're not joking. Wizenberg writes the blog, Orangette, well worth a look.
Back to asparagus, I asked DH if he, like me, had grown up eating canned asparagus. Yes, with a dressing of ketchup mixed into Best Foods mayonnaise. The other dressing we knew was shoyu - soy sauce - mixed with mayo. He didn't know anything else until he had dinner at a friend's house, where salad was served with Tropics French dressing. Do the French know "our" French dressing? Highly unlikely. Or French toast.
Do the Russians know our Russian dressing? Don't bet on it!
My favorite homemade dressing is extra virgin olive oil, lemon juice, some hot sauce, sea salt and a drop of agave syrup all whisked together. Vary it with freshly ground black pepper and some Dijon mustard or balsamic vinegar.
My thoughts turned to other canned vegetables. Say yes to canned corn. A definite no to canned beets. Fresh beets are wonderful - I bought some from our local city-sponsored open market last week. Peeled and sliced into matchsticks and tossed with lemon, balsamic, sea salt and cracked pepper, they were fresh and vibrant. Yes, I wore gloves. Later, we ate the beet tops sauteed in olive oil, with more salt and pepper - with jaja mein, of all things.
Today, I cleared out my handbag of all those odd things that accumulate - a bill I'd paid, empty envelope, old receipts. One was from one of my favorite new places - well, it's a new branch - Nijiya market. I love this Japanese market, and need to watch out, or overspend. My purchases were 2 kinds of dashi and brown rice shrimp tempura sushi (delicious!) Our son - visiting from Minneapolis - was with me, and his choice was a tray of uni.
Be careful what you feed your children when they are small, for they grow up wanting uni panini from El Quinto Pino and foie gras. I should have guessed this when the first sign he read was, "Foodland". Cooking is not his strong suit. He makes pasta with jarred sauce in his studio. With lots of Parmesan.
Both my guys think cooking is dangerous, and claim to be afraid of knives, the stove and hot oil. Well it IS abunai (dangerous) - said the woman with the current second degree burn on her wrist, a souvenir of eggplant hitting hot oil. What I do for curried ratatouille! I have a big old scar on my index finger - a New Year's Day memento from a dull knife and a pile of vegetables for Portuguese bean soup. The cut wouldn't heal; I went to the clinic.
A bunch of very odd thoughts, indeed!
DH says that was a very good dinner. Our running joke is from Molly Wizenberg's A Homemade Life, where her father says, "You know, we eat better at home than most people do in restaurants." And, we're not joking. Wizenberg writes the blog, Orangette, well worth a look.
Back to asparagus, I asked DH if he, like me, had grown up eating canned asparagus. Yes, with a dressing of ketchup mixed into Best Foods mayonnaise. The other dressing we knew was shoyu - soy sauce - mixed with mayo. He didn't know anything else until he had dinner at a friend's house, where salad was served with Tropics French dressing. Do the French know "our" French dressing? Highly unlikely. Or French toast.
Do the Russians know our Russian dressing? Don't bet on it!
My favorite homemade dressing is extra virgin olive oil, lemon juice, some hot sauce, sea salt and a drop of agave syrup all whisked together. Vary it with freshly ground black pepper and some Dijon mustard or balsamic vinegar.
My thoughts turned to other canned vegetables. Say yes to canned corn. A definite no to canned beets. Fresh beets are wonderful - I bought some from our local city-sponsored open market last week. Peeled and sliced into matchsticks and tossed with lemon, balsamic, sea salt and cracked pepper, they were fresh and vibrant. Yes, I wore gloves. Later, we ate the beet tops sauteed in olive oil, with more salt and pepper - with jaja mein, of all things.
Today, I cleared out my handbag of all those odd things that accumulate - a bill I'd paid, empty envelope, old receipts. One was from one of my favorite new places - well, it's a new branch - Nijiya market. I love this Japanese market, and need to watch out, or overspend. My purchases were 2 kinds of dashi and brown rice shrimp tempura sushi (delicious!) Our son - visiting from Minneapolis - was with me, and his choice was a tray of uni.
Be careful what you feed your children when they are small, for they grow up wanting uni panini from El Quinto Pino and foie gras. I should have guessed this when the first sign he read was, "Foodland". Cooking is not his strong suit. He makes pasta with jarred sauce in his studio. With lots of Parmesan.
Both my guys think cooking is dangerous, and claim to be afraid of knives, the stove and hot oil. Well it IS abunai (dangerous) - said the woman with the current second degree burn on her wrist, a souvenir of eggplant hitting hot oil. What I do for curried ratatouille! I have a big old scar on my index finger - a New Year's Day memento from a dull knife and a pile of vegetables for Portuguese bean soup. The cut wouldn't heal; I went to the clinic.
A bunch of very odd thoughts, indeed!
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