Sylvia Pendl’s garden journal illustration of ‘The Month of June’.
For the past 5 years I have been renting in a house with heaps of yard space and a healthy serving of southern exposure. On the downside, the soil quality is about as fertile as Saturn. It’s dusty, powdery and grey and I’m sure to blame [...]
Posts from ‘February, 2009’
big news in my own back yard
tightwad tuesday- curry in a hurry
Starting today, I’m going to be writing a post the 3rd Tuesday of every month which will focus on a tasty, healthy and inexpensive meal and also a breakdown of the cost per person. I feel that it is a good habit to be aware of how much we are spending to feed ourselves and [...]
baby, it’s cold outside
An old man once told me ”There’s no such thing as cold weather- just bad dressers.” But I beg to differ. No matter what I do these days to stay warm, even when indoors, I’m continually chilled to the bone (and I like to think that I am dressed for the climate). So I’ve been [...]
drinking at a kava bar and feeding moray eels
Cup O’ Kava at Kanaka Kava Bar..
I love finding these little jewels. I had stumbled upon the Kanaka Kava Bar not a minute too soon, just when I was about to accept the fact that Hawaii’s big island was completely void of any funk at all. Tucked away in the back of the Coconut Grove [...]
porridge- hawaiian style
Homemade porridge, Hawaiian-style.
Without getting into too much of a ranty pants, the restaurant experience on Hawaii’s big island blows harder than the local trade winds. Meals are not only consistently poor, they are really pricey. I am known to be a woman who enjoys her food (especially when on vacation). I can’t remember the last [...]
