GOING GREEN
KOOL RECIPES
BEEF PEPPER STEAK
1/4 c. oil
1 lb. stir fry beef or round steak cut into thin strips
1 med. onion
2 green peppers, sliced thin
1 tbsp. cornstarch
1/2 c. cold water
2 tbsp. soy sauce
1 tsp. sugar
1 tsp. garlic salt
1/2 tsp. black pepper
1 lb. stir fry beef or round steak cut into thin strips
1 med. onion
2 green peppers, sliced thin
1 tbsp. cornstarch
1/2 c. cold water
2 tbsp. soy sauce
1 tsp. sugar
1 tsp. garlic salt
1/2 tsp. black pepper
Preheat oil in skillet. Add meat and brown. Remove to serving dish. Add onion, pepper slices to skillet and cook until just tender. Dissolve cornstarch in water and soy sauce. Add sugar, garlic salt and pepper. Pour into skillet with vegetables stirring until sauce is thickened and clear. Add meat and cook several minutes longer or until heated through. Serve over hot rice.
POUND CAKE WITH COCONUT ICING
2 Estee brand white cake mixes
1 lg. sugar free vanilla instant pudding mix
1 c. water
4 eggs
1/3 c. oil
Dash of salt
1 lg. sugar free vanilla instant pudding mix
1 c. water
4 eggs
1/3 c. oil
Dash of salt
Mix all together. Pour into well greased and floured bundt pan. Bake at 350 degrees for 1 hour.
1/2 cup flaked, unsweetened coconut
1 recipe [low calorie frosting]
1/2 teaspoon coconut extract
1 recipe [low calorie frosting]
1/2 teaspoon coconut extract
Mix coconut into frosting, and spread on cooled cake. Sprinkle with additional coconut and chopped macadamia nuts, if desired.
SHOYU CHICKEN 5
.Chicken:
•2 pounds frozen or fresh chicken thighs, with skin and bone-in
•Sauce:
•1 can chicken broth
•¾ cup Aloha shoyu, or Yamasa premium soy sauce
•½ cup light brown sugar, packed
•5 cloves of garlic, peeled and smashed
•1 (2-inch) fresh ginger, sliced
•2 tablespoons cornstarch
•2 tablespoons water
•Garnish:
•2 to 3 stalks of green onions, sliced or chopped
•2 pounds frozen or fresh chicken thighs, with skin and bone-in
•Sauce:
•1 can chicken broth
•¾ cup Aloha shoyu, or Yamasa premium soy sauce
•½ cup light brown sugar, packed
•5 cloves of garlic, peeled and smashed
•1 (2-inch) fresh ginger, sliced
•2 tablespoons cornstarch
•2 tablespoons water
•Garnish:
•2 to 3 stalks of green onions, sliced or chopped
1.Chicken Preparation: If using frozen thighs, thaw completely in refrigerator for 2 to 3 days.
2.Sauce: In a large pot, add soy sauce, brown sugar and cook over medium high heat until sugar dissolves. Then stir in chicken broth, add garlic and sliced ginger, heat for a few minutes. Then add chicken thighs and bring to a boil, then turn heat down and simmer on low.
3.Cook 1 to 2 hours, or until chicken is fork tender. Periodically skim surface to take out oil and brown impurities floating on the surface. When chicken is done, place on a platter.
4.Combine cornstarch and water to make a slurry. Set aside.
5.In another pot or bowl, pour remaining sauce through a strainer, then add strained sauce to pot and bring to a boil. Add about a third of cornstarch mixture to sauce and whisk, then bring back to a boil and whisk in more cornstarch until thickened. When sauce coats the back of a spoon turn off heat.
6.Pour some of the sauce over chicken and reserve some to pour over rice, if desired.
7.Garnish with chopped green onions.
SWEET POTATO CAKE WITH CARAMEL ICING
1 1/2 c. oil
2 c. sugar
4 eggs, separated
1/2 c. water
2 1/4 c. flour
3 tsp. baking powder
1/4 tsp. salt
1 tsp. cinnamon
1 tsp. nutmeg
1 1/2 c. grated raw sweet potatoes
1 c. nuts
1 tsp. vanilla
2 c. sugar
4 eggs, separated
1/2 c. water
2 1/4 c. flour
3 tsp. baking powder
1/4 tsp. salt
1 tsp. cinnamon
1 tsp. nutmeg
1 1/2 c. grated raw sweet potatoes
1 c. nuts
1 tsp. vanilla
Preheat oven to 350°F.
Beat oil with sugar. Add eggs, beating well after each addition.
Beat oil with sugar. Add eggs, beating well after each addition.
Stir in remaining ingredients in order given, adding nuts and vanilla last. Mix just until blended, about 30 seconds.
Turn batter out into a greased and lightly floured (tap out excess) loaf pan and bake for 45-60 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.
Remove from oven and after 5 minutes, run a knife around edge of pan to free the cake. Cool on wire rack. Brush with melted butter while still warm and drizzle lightly with confectioners sugar icing, if desired.
To make icing, add a few drops of vanilla (1 or 2 drops will do) to 1/2 cup confectioners sugar; stir in a few drops of water at a time until mixture is of correct consistency to pour over cake. Stir well.
DUMP CAKE PUDDING
1 can cherry pie filling
1 lg. can crushed pineapple
1 yellow cake mix
2 sticks butter
1 1/2 c. pecan pieces
1 lg. can crushed pineapple
1 yellow cake mix
2 sticks butter
1 1/2 c. pecan pieces
Grease 9x11 cake pan. Pour pineapple in, then pie filling on top of that, sprinkle cake mix over top, melt butter and pour over cake and top with pecan pieces. Bake 350 degrees for 35 minutes.
PUMPKIN DUMP CAKE
1 (29 oz.) can pumpkin
1 (12 oz.) condensed milk
1 1/2 c. sugar
4 eggs
1 tsp. cinnamon
1/2 tsp. salt
1 yellow cake mix
2 sticks butter
1 (12 oz.) condensed milk
1 1/2 c. sugar
4 eggs
1 tsp. cinnamon
1/2 tsp. salt
1 yellow cake mix
2 sticks butter
Mix first 6 ingredients and pour into 9 x 12 inch pan. Sprinkle yellow cake mix over top of pumpkin mixture, melt 2 sticks of butter and pour over top.
Bake at 350°F for 50 to 60 minutes
Bake at 350°F for 50 to 60 minutes
Pineapple Drops
Ingredients
1 1/2 cups pineapple juice
1 1/2 cups vodka
3 tablespoons fresh lime juice
Couple of lime wedges
About 1 cup sugar
Fresh pineapple, cut into 3/4-in. chunks
1 1/2 cups vodka
3 tablespoons fresh lime juice
Couple of lime wedges
About 1 cup sugar
Fresh pineapple, cut into 3/4-in. chunks
How to Make It
Step 1
In a pitcher, mix pineapple juice, vodka, and lime juice, then chill until cold.
Step 2
Rub lime wedges around rims of 6 martini glasses. Pour sugar onto a large plate. Dip rims of glasses in sugar. Divide vodka mixture among glasses. Push a few pineapple chunks onto each skewer and set one in each glass.
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You Know Someone Is From Hawaii If...
They have a separate circuit breaker for their rice cooker.
Only NOW they know that cilantro is the same as Chinese parsley.
They measure the water for the rice by the knuckle of their index finger.
They know which market sells poi on which days.
They know that Char Sung Hut is closed on Tuesday.
They can handle shoyu with green mango, li hing mui gummy bears, raw egg on hot rice, and pearl tea (carnation milk in hot water with sugar) with creme crackers.
Their refrigerator has half-empty jar of mango chutney from the '95 Punahou Carnival.
The condiments at the table are shoyu, ketchup, chili peppah watah, and kimchee. Also, takuwan, Hawaiian salt, slice onion, and pickle onion.
They go to Maui and their luggage home includes potato chips, manju, cream puffs, and guri guri for omiyage.
They think the four food groups are starch (rice), Spam, fried food, and fruit punch.
A balanced meal has three starches: rice, macaroni, and bread.
They know 101 ways to fix their rubber slippers -- 50 using tape, 50 using glue, and one using a stick to poke the strap back in.
They sometimes use their open car door for a dressing room.
They wear two different color slippers together and they don't mind.
Nice clothes means a T-shirt without puka.
They are barefoot in most of their elementary school pictures.
They have a slipper tan.
Their only suit is a bathing suit.
They drive barefoot.
They have at least five Hawaiian bracelets.
They never ever, under any circumstances, wear socks with slippers, or an aloha shirt that matches their wife's muumuu.
They still call the Blaisedell Center the HIC and it's Sandy's, not Sandy Beach.
They say "I going go for lawnmower da grass" when they mean "I'm going to mow the lawn."
They can understand every word Bu Lai'a says and they know what his name means.
They have a sister, cousin, auntie, or mom named "Honey Girl" or.....
Someone in the family named Boy, Tita, Bruddah, Sonny, Bachan, Taitai, Popo, or Vovo.
They still chant "Hanaokolele" when a friend or co-worker goofs up.
They say "Shtraight," "Shtreet," and "Shtress."
They say "Da Kine" and the other person says "Da Kine" and they both know what is "Da Kine."
The "Shaka" and the "Stink Eye" are worth a thousand words.
They're shopping at Epcot Center at Disneyworld and they may say something to their sister and a complete stranger says, "You're from Hawai'i, aren't you?"
They feel guilty leaving a get-together without helping clean up.
The idea of taking something from a heiau is unthinkable.
They call everyone older than themselves "Aunty" or "Uncle" and they kiss everyone in greeting and farewell.
They let other cars ahead of them on the freeway and they give shaka to everyone who lets them in. (And get mad if someone they let in doesn't say thanks.)
Their philosophy is "Bumbai."
They would rather drag out the compressor and fill that leaking tire every single morning than have it fixed.
The only time they honk their horn is once a year during the safety check.
If a child needs a home, they give him one. She/He becomes "Hanai."
They can live and let live with a smile in their heart.
Their male best friend's name is either Wade, Max, Nathan, or Melvin.
Owns two types of slippers: da "good slippas" and da "buss-up/stay home slippas."
Does not understand the concept of North, South, East, and West, but instead gives directions as Mauka, Makai, Diamond Head, Ewa, and uses landmarks instead of street names.
The first thing they look for in the Sunday paper is the Long's ad.
They take off their slippahs before going into the house.
You ask what year they grad and where they grad from, and then you say "eh you know so and so..."
When it's done, they say "pau!"
1. Locals don’t cheer when they’re excited, they shout, “Chee hoo!”
2. When everything is all messed up, things are definitely “hamajang.”
3. You don’t get hurt in Hawaii, you get “buss (bust) up.”
4. A Hawaii local never has a lot of something, but always has “choke” amounts.
Example: “Electric beach has choke turtles.”
5. A Hawaii local never travels seaside, but always goes “makai.” Likewise, a local never goes toward the mountains, but “mauka.”
6. If something is bad, a local will most definitely call it “junk.”
7. You might think you just got in a fight, but really, you got “in one scrap.”
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8. A mainland mother might tell you to change your underwear every day, but a local mom will remind you to change your “bibidees.”
9. You don’t go to the bathroom to make number 1, you always make “shi-shi.”
10. Others will question whether or not you’re a local if you don’t call soy sauce “shoyu.”
11. Anything that’s a pain in the butt is most definitely “humbug.”
12. When your nose is runny, auntie might scold you to blow out your “hanabata.”
13. If your tan needs work and your pale skin is noticeable, someone might call you “daikon legs.”
14. Sitting on a hard surface too long or dealing with hamajang situations is certainly a pain in the “’okole.”
15. A Hawaii local doesn’t smoke marijuana, but smokes “pakalolo.”
16. Locals don’t ask if you’re finished, they ask if you “stay pau.”
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