Throughout December, I have either been at work or in the kitchen cooking, leaving no time for photo processing or blogging. I’m back now and resolving (it’s that time of year, isn’t it?) to be a better blogger in 2013. In lieu of the regular, piles-of-words blog post, here’s a... Read More

Our October round-up is pretty sparse. It’s been a weird month with a lot of very ordinary take-out meals. A good drink in the middle of a rough week is always appreciated. Brasserie Du Vin tends to be our go-to spot after work — it’s convenient to walk to from... Read More

Here’s our monthly round-up of eats and drinks for September! Of course, we ate a ton of goodies at the Kā‘anapali Fresh events and during our long weekend on Maui, which straddled the end of August and beginning of September. You can read about our whole weekend in my earlier... Read More

When we go to Maui, there are two places we must, must, must visit: Star Noodle in Lahaina and Leoda’s Kitchen & Pie Shop in Olowalu. Both are part of the Hoaloha Nā ‘Ehā  (“The Four Friends”) family of restaurants, and executive chef Sheldon Simeon is absolutely phenomenal. His particular... Read More

I’ve decided that each month, I’m going to do a post of random note-worthy stuff we consume. This is for a number of reasons: When I started this blog, I decided that I didn’t want it to be the type of blog where I review places or products. If I... Read More

Took a quick weekend jaunt to Hilo for our friends’ wedding. Most of our time was occupied by wedding events, but since I’d been thwarted in my quest for fancy sweets by the closure of Puff City (fabulous cream puffs, annoying hours) five minutes before we showed up on their... Read More

There’s a new truck in town! A gelato truck! VIA Gelato makes delicious gelato from local ingredients. All of it is made with local milk and eggs, and most of the flavoring ingredients are locally sourced, too. Shake learned about them a while ago, before they were up and running... Read More

This is my Cheer Up Chocolate gift from Shake. I deserve all this because I had a crappy day today. To start, Shake left early for work. That wasn’t the crappy part. This was: My car wouldn’t start. I got the engine to almost catch and stomped the gas hard.... Read More