For breakfast this morning, I had an ume, Japanese plum, in a cup of hot water. The ume jar had a lot of shiso leaves marinating with the ume so I had a few leaves in the cup as well. The ume is salty and sour to varying degrees...
En papillote is really the inspiration here as it is in the aluminum foil bag used for the Kalua Pig and Clams dish at the King St. restaurant. This fata paper, not really a paper I guess, but you can heat it, put it in the oven and it will...
On our last day in Maui, a lot of the staff made stuff and brought it to lunch to say farewell and thank you to Kathy, they made some of her favorite things.------touching, a testament to her and her influence.