be one with food

Located in Waimanalo is a food truck parked across of 7-11 and the beach park. SOOO FAT specializes in Hawaiian food and their menu from what I heard changes from time to time. There was steak, chicken, char sui pork, and poke bowls. I got the spicy ahi bowl, and it was different from the regular ones you'd get from Food land. The sauce had a kick, but it was kind of watery that it drowned my rice. I dont like my poke bowls too saucy or soaking my rice. The ahi or tuna chunks seemed like they were bathed in lemon also from the texture I was getting. Overall it was good. If you want to know an easy method of making spicy mayo, heres how: 1. Whisk together mayo and sriracha sauce until evenly combined 2. Add lemon juice if desired.

This weeks food take is from CPK, California Pizza Kitchen. We ordered spinach artichoke dip as an appetizer, but didn't receive it until after we got our pasta and pizza. Its okay though, for the wait it was on the house. The description for the mains are listed below: ROASTED GARLIC CHICKEN PIZZA  Sweet caramelized onions, fresh Mozzarella, Parmesan, slivered scallions and cracked black pepper GARLIC CREAM FETTUCCINE  Garlic Parmesan cream sauce with fresh Italian parsley. Also available with chicken, shrimp, chicken & shrimp, or sautéed Cremini mushrooms. Overall I thought the food was alright, not bad, but it needed something else. The pizza was kind of bland, there was little chicken or wasnt spread out so I had to add pepper to get more flavor. I liked the pasta though, we had both chicken and shrimp so it made up for it.

Known in the Philippines as ice candy, they are easy to make and takes you back to ones childhood there. I had some halo-halo mixture laying around and decided to use it. Halo-halo means to mix and has young coconut, coconut gelatin, chickpeas, mung beans, and jackfruit. Typically halo-halo is made with shave ice, but as a lazy way I decided to to freeze them in bags lol. Ingredients: 1 bottle of halo-halo preserved fruit mix 1/2 cup condensed milk 1 cup milk Its a pretty simple process. Strain the syrup from the bottle and divide the contents into ice candy bags. Mix the milk and condense milk then pour into bags. Be careful because the bags are small in size and can be a bit tricky. Once you've reached a desired length, tie bags and place on plate. I like to move the bag around before freezing so the halo-halo mixture doesn't stay in the bottom. Wait until hardened and there you have it. If you don't like halo-halo, some people use chocolate milk powder, avoca...

Aside of the pizzas, lemonade, or crab I ate this week that I forgot to capture, heres some information to a common ingredient in cooking. As a kid, I used vinegar as a base for apples, slightly ripen papayas, and guavas. Just throw them in a bowl, add salt, pour on vinegar and you have yourself a snack. Vinegar can be used for many things. Its basically fermented sugar thats turns into acetic acid giving us its sour taste. Some benefits from it are disinfecting, food preservative, and healing properties. From friends, I learned they use vinegar in rice to help it last longer or in the laundry to get rid of odor. Ive seen my dad soak his swollen feet in vinegar diluted with water. The most interesting experience I had with the vinegar mixture was after funeral mass where an elderly rubbed and slapped my forehead with it. Its a filipino tradition thats been done before that they follow. Its sort of used to clean all the worries so your head will not get a headache also.