Tuesday, September 22, 2009

More Yummy Hawaii Food!


This was at Jackie Rey's Ohana Grill. This one was the Korean Style Short Ribs with Tempura Vegetables. It was super good.
Elbert had the Lemon Herb Chicken with brown rice and vegetables. He loved it.

Saturday, September 19, 2009

Huli Huli Chicken

We are in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii this week and next. Last night was our 4th anniversary. The tables were situated perfectly to see the sunset. We ate at 5:30, so we were front and center for the sunset, which was amazing. We ate at Don the Beachcomber Restaurant located in the Royal Kona Resort, which we happen to be staying at.
I ordered the Island Huli Huli Chicken(above)-Tender half chicken marinated with lemons, limes, oranges, shoyu, and anchiote seasoning then rotisserie roasted to perfection, comes with guava glaze and white truffle honey and coconut rice. Seriously, this was the best chicken ever. I usually don't like chicken with bones or skin, but I actually ate the skin and was happy to cut around the bones to get this chicken. SOOOOO GOOOOOOD!
Elbert ordered the Pi Yi'd Baby Backs-Pork ribs coated with our own house made rub, flame broiled and baked with Don's own honey-rum-mango-pineapple BBQ glaze. It came with pineapple coleslaw. The coleslaw was awesome. Elbert said that the ribs weren't as good as my Dad's, but that is pretty hard to do!

Tuesday, September 1, 2009

Peach and Raspberry Crisp

This is my very first recipe to post. Yeah. I chose an Ina Garten recipe because I love her recipes. This recipe is in the original Barefoot Contessa Cookbook. Let me say that if you don't own this cookbook, go to amazon.com right now and order it. It's pricey, but worth it, so worth it. I have made so many of her recipes and swear by them. The link below is from the Food Network website.
Elbert's b-day was last week, so on Sunday we had a big family dinner at my Parent's house. My dad made ribs and I made baked beans and Barefoot Contessa french potato salad. For dessert, I decided to make a peach crisp. I made the Barefoot Contessa recipe for Peach and Raspberry Crisp, but without the raspberries. It was so yummy. The peaches are a little bit orangy from the zest. The topping is great because of the oatmeal. This is another Barefoot Contessa recipe that I will make over and over. You should all try it before the peaches go out of season. The link to the recipe is below. Thanks for reading.

Barefoot Contessa's Peach and Raspberry Crisp