Ok, I kid you not. This really was last night's dinner:

- Hoisin glazed ribs
- Grilled ahi in garlic, ginger, cilantro and soy sauce served on spinach
- Roast pork tenderloin
- Ochazuke with three kinds of tsukemono
- Thai gree curry with chicken and veggies on jasmine rice
- Shrimp cake on fried rice with shitake cream sauce topped with scrambled eggs, tobiko and green onion
- Asian shrimp cake crusted with crispy Chinese noodles with ginger-lime-chili butter and cilantro pesto
- Big Island Veal meatballs in hoisin bbq sauce with smoked bacon on twelve grain rice
- Kahuku corn and dungeness crab fritters with corn pudding on cilatro and radish salad with herb oil
- Dessert (only one I had) was apple banana innamon shortcake made with lavender strawberry coulis, shaved Waialua chocolate, and orange pomegranate Caviar

All that was washed down with coffee and some dark lager. I was too full to try any of the other beers and wines.

There was more, but I only listed what I ate.

Why do we get dinner posts on a preparedness forum?

As a warning not to finish off dinner with some wafer thin mints.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlK62rjQWLk

Shoney's, Hawaiian-style?

Pass the crab fritters and lager please

Because I can.

Also, it's posted on the Around the Campfire section, not the survival section.

What's a Shoney's?

Both were good!

Thanks.

Aloha..keep it up,your posts among my favorites.

Thanks for the video, darn it. And I am stuffed from dinner too. Glad I didn't have the mint. Wait a minute...garcon...

Because your Evil.......

Shhhhh.....Don't spill the beans.

We really need to take a research trip as a group to study aforementioned options. For example, what are the prime beach front food procurement locations in Oahu? Is it best to start or end with haupia, given the humidity and the heat in a tropical location?

Who wants to start working on a grant proposal? I'll put myself down as a principal investigator.

Da Bing

Oh man that sounds like "Treat Day" from the Butterfield Diet Plan: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWgwJfbeCeU

I'll take the ahi tuna and some of those fritters, please.

Da Bing,

You are a little mixed up on haupia. Why start or end with haupia when you can start AND end with haupia?

Good choices all. I liked pretty much all of them. Perhaps that is why I am in such good shape. As I remind my wife, round is a great shape!

And don't forget the beer.

I don't know why they call it haupia. They should call it "haupoopa".

We really need to start a Food section on this forum. So much to feast on and so little time...

Or just eat and tell...

This is for you, bacpacjac. Last night I made naan pizzas. This is the portabella one I made for my wife (after it passed my quality control test). It was really good.

Preliminary research indicates that haupia is the perfect survival food. It is easy to make (though it does take a bit more fuel than I'm comfortable with), so I was surprised to discover. It can be had before, during, and after a meal. In fact, it can be the meal.

The next grant proposal is for studying chocolate haupia, made famous by Ted's Bakery on North Shore. Stay tuned.

Da Bing

Oh my. My mouth is watering!! You guys are way better than the food network.

I'd like in on that grant! And the study.

Food discussions are best accompanied by images, so here it is:



Note that a strange problem arose. The haupia rapidly disappeared square by square. It's making me rethink its suitability for emergency food. Where does it vanish to? No one seems to know. Yet it continues disappearing into thin air. I managed to snap this picture above before the completion of this piecemeal Rapture.

I must make more to test this. Should I use arrowroot starch instead? Is there a big difference? I used corn starch for this one, but I hear arrowroot is traditional.

Da Bing

Try it and see which you like better. I use coconut milk in mine. Yours?

I think I missed the haupia recipe. I was curious before the picture but now I need to try it.

I used this one (from <http://www.ochef.com/112.htm>):



It's really simple. I prefer a little less sugar myself, and for the first try, what I made was close enough to the stuff I got in Hawaii. There are other variations. I suppose it's one of those things where every person has his own recipe. I read that Polynesian arrowroot starch is more traditional than corn starch, so that may be worth a try.

Yeah, I can totally see it: power outage, a raging storm outside, a mob gathering. But we calm sit by candle light/camping light/Surefire tactical light mounted on our Mossy 500, making haupia. The only thing is that it needs to chill, and without refrigeration it might take a while.

Come to think of it, that might not be a bad idea at all. The tea bag in survival kits focuses your energy on a task to calm you down and give you time to think. Haupia could serve the same purpose. The rest of the luau probably helps, too.

Next: how we can apply surfing to survival.

Da Bing

Yama's Fish Market has the best haupia I have ever had. Even better than my home made!

mmmm... think i'll spend tomorrow night cooking. Thanks guys!

Care to share your recipe? DB

Mine is much like yours except I don't measure. Just kinda eyeball. Plus, I don't use water. Coconut milk all the way for me. Makes it richer tasting, I think. And I'll add a couple drops of coconut extract and if I feel like it, some grated coconut too.

I wish I had the recipe for the one at Yama's. Sooo good! Mine comes close, but not close enough.

Tomorrow's experiment day. Do you use the same quantities as DB, Aloha?

I think I might have forgotten to mention that you need to chill the pudding. Good luck, and let us know how it comes out, bacpacjac!

I eyeball it so couldn't tell ya. Been thinking of haupia today and thought that when I make it next, I'll toss some coconut oil in for good measure.

Thanks Bing!

My first attempt is chilling now. I used DB's recipe but compromised and used an extra cup of coconut milk with 1 1/2 cups of water (3 full cans coconut milk total). Do we really need to wait for it to chill? It's already yummy!

The desert lover in me is thinking of variations as I wait:

-grown-up version with cocount rum or liquor

-chill it in individual bowls

-pie, topped with whipped cream and sprinkled coconut (maybe banana slices and chocolate shavings too...)

-squares with graham crust, topped with pinapple and coconut

mmmMMM! It's good. Thanks guys!

These all sound great! When I next get a chance, I want to make a haupia pie with two layers: vanilla haupia and chocolate. I think I just have to make two batches, one with vanilla and the other with chocolate. Then I pour the white haupia onto the crust, let it chill a bit. Then put the chocolate on it. Tada! Piano key haupia!

The survival application is, urh, urh urh... it encourages you to eat more in times of stress!

DB

Making haupia could be just like the cup of tea theory DB, only it's stirring and think instead of sip and think.

I just tried adding white chocolate powder and orange extract to haupia (my second try). It seemed like too much of a good thing. The chocolate took a bit too much away from the coconuttiness. I think we have to bring out the coconut, rather than overwhelm it with things that can be commonly found in other pastries. DB