My mother is allergic to egg whites. When I visited her recently, I made her quite a few scrambled egg yolks for breakfast. By the end of the visit I had a big vat of egg whites in the fridge. We used some of the egg whites up making a Macadamia Nut and Tropical Fruit…
Fried Lima Beans with Feta, Sorrel, Sumac and Lemon
This recipe combines beans that originated in Peru with cooking techniques and spices from the Middle East AND the little green things that are starting to come out of the ground at this moment in New York State. It used up a few delicious green spring herbs (ramps and sorrel) that I had enthusiastically purchased…
Four Weird and Delicious Pestos
I know this is weird, but I don’t make basil pesto. I make pesto for three reasons. 1. I have some sad bunch of green something that I did not use in a timely fashion, but cannot stand to throw away, so I make it into pesto. The truth is, I do not buy…
Finally, a good gluten-free pizza crust
Until recently, I have had a resigned attitude toward making gluten-free pizza crust at home. The only really good gluten-free pizza’s I had eaten had been made in a wood-fire oven or on a grill and I don’t own either of those! But for the last few months I have been on a very involved…
Crushed Green Olive Salad with Celery and Mint
I knew I was going to love this salad as soon as I read the recipe. I am a big fan of good green olives and celery. In fact, when I travel I always pack green olives and celery as an airplane snack. Also, this salad has mint in it and I love mint in…
Tropical Fruit and Macadamia Nut Torte- From the backyard in Kula, Maui (Gluten-Free)
For the last three years, my mother has been living in a little cottage in Kula, Maui on a beautiful property planted with mango, loquat, natal plum, macadamia nut, avocado, kukui nut and guava trees. While visiting my mother recently, my husband became excited about cracking open the macadamia nuts from the yard and…
Maui Forager’s Salad- Pohole Fern, Watercress and Poha Berry Salad
It is easy to forage for food in Hawaii. There are wild mountain apples that grow on the side of the road on the way to Hana and guava trees dotting the ranch land that many of the hiking trails cut through. There used to be wild tomatoes growing at Makena beach. In Hawaii, food…
Carrot Cardamom Muffins with Coconut Rosewater Icing (Gluten-Free)
I wanted to make a carrot cake inspired by Indian carrot halva for Easter this year. I wanted it to have coconut instead of walnuts and feature cardamom and rosewater. We are spending Easter with my mum on Maui, where I grew up and she still lives. I knew that my mother likes cardamom and…
Creamy Jicama, Kohlrabi and Carrot Slaw with Garlic and Lemon/ Maui Farm Vegetables
I spent the second half of my childhood on the island of Maui. First in the old whaling town and tourist Mecca of Lahaina and later in the scorching hot seaside sprawl of Kihei. When my parents bought their house in Kihei, my mother was eager to start a garden. She had grown up on…
Bittersweet Boozy Goodness- Old Fashioned Orange Marmalade (with bitters and sour cherries)
Just before Christmas, I came home one night to find the teenage daughter of one of my neighbors sitting in our cold and dirty hallway. She was locked out. I invited her into my apartment and offered to feed her dinner. Her mother found the note that we had left her when she came…
Big Sis Little Dish 