It’s been a while since the last post. We’ve been working on giving Aloha Howdy a new face lift and it looks like it will be an on going process for the time being. I have been also studying on food photography. I have to tell ya, I’m tired. I’m…

It seems as though all the food blogs had an agreement that everyone will feature elaborately decorated sugar cookies in their sites this month. As I read the stories and drool over those beautifully decorated cookies, it all makes since to me why there is a big wave going on…

When I look at these photos, I just want to say-Ooooh la la… C’est magnifique!… Une pure merveille!, Superbe!… and then I realize, Je ne parle pas Français (I don’t speak French). It was not my intention to make an extravagant, celebratory dessert such as this right after Thanksgiving. I…

Bûche de Noël Part Deux When I couldn’t find the Julia Child’s  Bûche de Noël recipe through the internet, D1 volunteered to help me out. A couple of days of searches later, he relinquished from this task only benefiting his curiosity and confusion. Here is some exchanges between him and…

D1 and I had to make a quick stop at Wal-Mart recently. It was Thanksgiving day to be exact, and you can imagine all the panic stricken faces looking for that last minute forgotten ingredients for their traditional dinner feast. Nothing seemed unusual until we spotted a huge aisle with…

I’ve discovered something. Okay, okay, I didn’t discover it, but it is a new wonderful thing which I have found through a food blog and I should have some credit due to the fact that there are literally thousands of food blogs on the world wide web, and I discovered…

When I get tired of cooking, I imagine all the choices I have from the fast food restaurants. I visualize the hamburgers with wilted, brown lettuce rags. I think about the oozing condiments between the questionable contents of the buns. It forces me to conceptualize the face off position, where…

We had a very, very important guest for a week. Her name is Nabi (it means “butterfly” in Korean). She is the ‘baby’ of my parents. When my parents were going out of town for a week, I was chosen to babysit her. It was a daunting job. You see…she…

My In-Laws are very busy around this time of year. They arrange many parties and affairs, and last Sunday was a yearly family reunion. There is so much food which everyone takes part by bringing their anticipated specialty. Every year it is expected that the sacred chocolate pie be brought…

I am going to start you off with this! Uh huh, that’s right buddies and buddettes, I am a temptress today. I have had a series of unfortunate events with this recipe, but I don’t want you to be discouraged. I want you… to make… this. First off let me…

The cooler change of weather makes me want to bake all the time. Brownies, cookies, and bread of all kinds are coming out of my oven daily. The house smells wonderful with melted chocolates and spices every day. With all the baking going on, I get a bit overwhelmed when…

French Toast is a special breakfast at our house. We can have pancakes, biscuits and gravy, or crepes for breakfast… but when it comes to French Toast, D1, D2, and D3 do the happy dance. The crispy crust is formed by frying the bread mixture into butter and oil. The…

Do you remember Sarah Lee’s commercials when you were little?  I can still sing in my head – “Nobody does it like Sarah Lee”. I grew up eating Sarah Lee’s pound cake. My dad would often buy her pound cake to have for breakfast with his coffee. He would load…

The weather has changed in Arkansas. The mornings give out an unwelcoming chill that I found my body protesting by sleeping in a blanket cocoon which I unconsciously created in my slumber. The gray clouds refuse the afternoon Sun to let through and I find myself wasting a lot of…

D2′s 16th birthday was this month. Knowing his affections for anything chocolate, I already had basic essence in mind. I didn’t want it to be just any kind of chocolate dessert. He gets his share of cakes, cookies, and brownies all the time..I wanted something different, something special for his…

Once upon a time, when I used to have hair, D1 and I would go out to eat more often. There was this restaurant in Memphis, I can not remember the name right now, but it was located on Poplar Avenue right next to a bead shop. They used to…

I have some fond memories of GG in the kitchen. If you don’t know who I am talking about, here is the link. GG made wonderful Southern dishes, from her delicious peach jam to buttermilk fried chicken that was sooo good… especially cold. My favoritest memory of all was when…

There is no Olive Garden restaurant in Hawaii. You really wouldn’t miss it if it were solely about the pastas and the sauces, but the fact of the matter is, I have not found a place where there is this tomato-y bean filled soup with chewy goodness that comes from…

I love Tiramisu. It could be my favorite dessert in the whole wide world, but I am wise enough to not admit that. Right as of this moment though, as I go through all my photographs of my beautiful Tiramisu (for the reasons of this post), I am willing to…

A long time ago, I used to know this lady, who used to bake this delicious bread. She used to bring her bread to the church functions, get togethers, and have them for dinners when she would invite us to her home. I fell in love with her bread; it…