Our Adventures in Japan

When I was in Hawaii, I came across OCHO candy at Target. OCHO stands for organic chocolate. I debated between their coconut and peanut ...

You may remember this version . Well, as I was perusing the aisles at the market I came upon these...chocolate coated coconut sablés. A ...

Bonne Maman's Croquants are tiny cookies (maybe an inch round (2.5 centimeters)?!) I found these at an import market. What I love i...

While I was in Hawaii, I came across this...Earth Balance's coconut & peanut spread. It is a little sweet from the agave, there is...

The other day while Satoshi and I were at the grocery store, we noticed these coconut sablé ice cream sandwiches in their freezer section. ...

Satoshi was here for about 5 days and we got to play tourist a bit. On Tuesday, we headed to Haleiwa, he really likes this area. We chec...

I made a batch of coconut pearls . When the liquid was still warm, I made a serving of Che Chuoi ...yum! After that, we had several ser...

With the last of the coconut milk, I made some muffins. I used my favorite muffin recipe (minus Earl Grey), and subbed coconut milk for reg...

Another wonderful adventure with my "jotting" ... The said jotted recipe was for Che Chuoi, a Vietnamese treat with tapioca and ba...

Sharing more food finds....there was a major sale on beer...US$.85 a can for Asahi (regular price US$1.15 a can). We found a tiny shop ca...

Since my grandma moved from Hilo to Oahu, we don't go to the Big Island as much these days, but when we do, we always try to stop in at ...

After trying coconut vanilla jam in Noumea last year, I was interested in finding a recipe for it. To my surprise as I was flipping through...

I wanted to share with you what I did with a can of coconut milk. Earlier this year, I found some tri-colored tapioca at the gourmet superma...

The other night Satoshi had a party to attend to for the Hyatt. I think everyone received this "goodie bag"--pancake mix, maple s...