Tuesday Night Supper Club--Making Reservations

it's my birthday

and

i am in hawaii

so

the only cooking I will be doing

is

cooking up falsehoods

about my age

we are eating out tonight

at a restaurant whose owner

grows all the produce on his 8 acre upcountry farm

and serves fish caught fresh daily

my expectations are endless

instead of a recipe

i thought i would leave you with this excerpt

from a book called A Meal Observed

by Andrew Todhunter

this is a quote from Philippe Legendre

previously the chef at Taillevent (3 michelin stars)

"People who have no love to share eat poorly, and they don't cook. If you love cooking, you will cook, at whatever level.  People who like to be around a table, who like to share--they'll try to cook, even if it's only an egg.  I would much prefer to eat an egg with friends than caviar with strangers.  That's important."

and a photo

of a sight

on the road to hana

Tuesday Night Supper Club will resume next week

when I am no longer on vacation

and it's not my birthday

in the meanwhile

EAT UP!

tiny bubbles

who leaves 80 degree weather

in the dead of winter

for a balmy holiday 

in Hawaii?

well,

i do

of course

we planned this trip

long before we knew that

summer would show up by

mid-february

lest you think i am complaining

I AM NOT

by the time you read this

I will be sipping a mai tai

on the beach

while hubster

gives don ho

a run for his money

aloha

kili 

(my hawaiian name which was printed on a grain of rice and purchased by me

in 1984

in celebration of my high school graduation

and boiled by me

sometime in the 90s

in false hope

that it would be funny)

Royal Hawaiian Mai Tai Ingredients:

 1 ounce Dark Rum

 1 oz Light Rum

 1 oz Orange Curacao

 2 oz Orange Juice

 1/2 oz Lime Juice

 Dash Orgeat or Grenadine

 Dash Simple Syrup (1 cup sugar and 1 cup water boiled until the sugar dissolves) 

Royal Hawaiian Mai Tai Instructions: 

Mix all ingredients and pour over crushed or shaved ice in a glass. Garnish with a cherry and a slice of pineapple