Easy to make recipes from the Hawaiian Islands featuring local favorites that capture the flavors of Hawaii's cuisines such as Chinese, Japanese, Filipino, Hawaiian, Portuguese, and Southeast Asian, just to name a few.
What?s chewy and moist, comes in all shapes and flavors, great for picnics, parties, office treats for coffee break and EASY to prepare? Why, it?s a mochi dessert - always popular in Hawaii! In this grand collection of mochi recipes, not only can you find traditional recipes and today?s popular mochi desserts all in one cookbook, but also included are entrees, such as Siu Mai with Mochi Rice, Crisp Fried Shrimp, and Mochiko Chicken. There is also a microwave section for today?s busy lifestyle. The average microwave cooking time is around 10 minutes. Best of all, most mochi desserts can be prepared a day ahead and require no refrigeration.
Who can resist comfort foods from Hawaii like Portuguese bean soup, soba salad, shoyu poke, chicken chili, tonkatsu, butter yaki, and haupia chocolate pie? You'll find them all here, laid out with clear instructions and packed with local color and fond memories of the people and places associated with these tasty, family-pleasing recipes.
Jean Hee, author of the best selling cookbooks Hawaii's Best Mochi Recipes, Hawaii's Best Local Desserts, and Hawaii's Best Local Dishes brings together more than 100 favorite island recipes, most of them quick and easy to make, for your next get-together. From Ono Shrimp Poke to Hawaiian-Style California Rolls, from Pipikaula to Crispy Gau Gee, these are the beloved recipes passed on from coworkers, friends, and family, and found at potlucks and intimate gatherings throughout the islands.
Pastry chef David Lebovitz is known for creating desserts with bold and high-impact flavor, not fussy, complicated presentations. Lucky for us, this translates into showstopping sweets that bakers of all skill levels can master. In Ready for Dessert, elegant finales such as Gâteau Victoire, Black Currant Tea Crème Brûlée, and Anise-Orange Ice Cream Profiteroles with Chocolate Sauce are as easy to prepare as comfort foods such as Plum-Blueberry Upside-Down Cake, Creamy Rice Pudding, and Cheesecake Brownies. With his unique brand of humor—and a fondness for desserts with “screaming chocolate intensity”—David serves up a tantalizing array of more than 170 recipes for cakes, pies, tarts, crisps, cobblers, custards, soufflés, puddings, ice creams, sherbets, sorbets, cookies, candies, dessert sauces, fruit preserves, and even homemade liqueurs. David reveals his three favorites: a deeply spiced Fresh Ginger Cake; the bracing and beautiful Champagne Gelée with Kumquats, Grapefruits, and Blood Oranges; and his chunky and chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies. His trademark friendly guidance, as well as suggestions, storage advice, flavor variations, and tips will help ensure success every time. Accompanied with stunning photos by award-winning photographer Maren Caruso, this new compilation of David’s best recipes to date will inspire you to pull out your sugar bin and get baking or churn up a batch of homemade ice cream. So if you’re ready for dessert (and who isn’t?), you’ll be happy to have this collection of sweet indulgences on your kitchen shelf—and your guests will be overjoyed, too.
Sixteen years ago, Jean Hee released her first desserts cookbook, Hawai`i¿s Best Local Desserts. Almost a decade later, by popular demand Jean released Hawai`i¿s New Best Local Desserts, a collection of recipes that couldn¿t be finished on time for her first book (Jean rigorously test and double tests each recipe) and ones that had been passed on by friends and family in the years that followed, some geared for quick preparation for the busy lifestyle that had become the norm.This newest book, The Best of the Best Hawai`i Local Desserts, is a collection of Jean¿s favorite dessert recipes compiled from all her cookbooks¿not just the desserts ones¿so they can be found in one convenient volume.For this new compilation, Jean hand-picked the most popular and favorite recipes which she tested and retested. The result is a collection of easy-to-prepare desserts that use ingredients found in any pantry as well as elegant, made-from-scratch masterpieces for those who have the time to bake on a lazy Sunday afternoon. The recipes take advantage of Hawai`i¿s bounty of fruit. There¿s plenty of bread pudding recipes, chocolate galore, and a wide variety of cookies, bars, tarts and cupcakes that are sure to be an instant hit with any crowd.
Satisfy your sweet tooth with nearly 100 great recipes for delicious--and healthy--Hawaii snacks and desserts. In "A Sweet Dash of Aloha," the companion guide to the best-selling "A DASH of Aloha: Healthy Hawaii Cuisine and Lifestyle," the chefs and faculty of the Kapiolani Community College Culinary Arts Department present these healthful treats along with sensible alternatives, tips from the experts and seasonality charts for buying local. It's the complete guide to enjoying desserts and sweets--guilt-free! To encourage keiki to eat healthy and prepare their own nutritious food, a chapter is dedicated to child-friendly recipes. Other chapters are devoted to gluten-free dishes and alternatives to refined sugar and eggs. Each recipe is accompanied by a Nutrition Facts chart. Taste-tempters such as Chocolate-Dipped Macaroons, Peppermint Chocolate Chip Cookies, Gluten-Free Lilikoi Bars, and Almond Thumbprint Cookies, all 120 calories per serving or below, are bound to please!
From a Maui native and food blogger comes a gorgeous cookbook of 85 fresh and sunny recipes reflects the major cultures that have influenced local Hawaiʻi food over time: Native Hawaiian, Chinese, Japanese, Portuguese, Korean, Filipino, and Western. IACP AWARD FINALIST • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST COOKBOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR AND LIBRARY JOURNAL In Aloha Kitchen, Alana Kysar takes you into the homes, restaurants, and farms of Hawaiʻi, exploring the cultural and agricultural influences that have made dishes like plate lunch and poke crave-worthy culinary sensations with locals and mainlanders alike. Interweaving regional history, local knowledge, and the aloha spirit, Kysar introduces local Hawaiʻi staples like saimin, loco moco, shave ice, and shoyu chicken, tracing their geographic origin and history on the islands. As a Maui native, Kysar’s roots inform deep insights on Hawaiʻi’s multiethnic culture and food history. In Aloha Kitchen, she shares recipes that Hawaiʻi locals have made their own, blending cultural influences to arrive at the rich tradition of local Hawaiʻi cuisine. With transporting photography, accessible recipes, and engaging writing, Kysar paints an intimate and enlightening portrait of Hawaiʻi and its cultural heritage.
A NATIONAL BESTSELLER! Trust in nature. Believe in balance. Eat the rainbow! Andrea Hannemann, aka Earthy Andy, presents a guide to plant-based eating that is simple, delicious, and fun. INCLUDES A 30-DAY PLANT OVER PROCESSED CHALLENGE Andrea Hannemann, known as Earthy Andy to her more than one million Instagram followers, believes that food is the fuel of life, and that consuming a nourishing, plant-based diet is the gateway to ultimate health. Andy’s mantra, “plant over processed,” embodies the way she eats and feeds her family of five in their home in Oahu, Hawaii. But it wasn’t always this way. Andy was once addicted to sugar and convenience foods and suffering from a host of health issues that included IBS, Celiac disease, hypothyroidism, asthma, brain fog, and chronic fatigue. Fed up with spending time and money on specialists, supplements, and fad diets, she quit animal products and processed foods cold turkey, and embarked on a new way of eating that transformed her health and her body. In Plant Over Processed, Andy invites readers to join her on a “30-Day Plant Over Processed Challenge” that will detox the body, followed by a long-term plan for going plant-based without giving up your favorite dishes. Packed with gorgeous photography and mouth-watering recipes—from smoothies and bliss bowls to plant-based comfort and decadent desserts—this life-changing guide takes you to the North Shore of Hawaii and back, showing you how easy it is to eat plant-based, wherever you are.