Category — Dessert Recipes

When it was finally the week for our friends from Tokyo to return home, we went with my dad to take them out for a sayonara dinner at Longhi’s in Ala Moana. I’ve been here once before, and several times to the Longhi’s on Maui.

What I remember about this restaurant, especially on Maui, is that it was always so accommodating with excellent service and good food. I remember back when they didn’t use menus. The waiter would just ask you what you felt like eating - seafood, meat, chicken, pasta, etc. And in a couple minutes you’d have a personalized order being sent to the kitchen.
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Happy Mother’s Day! I hope everyone had a great Mother’s Day weekend. This is the dessert I brought over to our family’s Mother’s Day lunch.
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Sometimes on a Friday afternoon after a “challenging” week at work, you just need a little pick me up. This was my situation several weeks ago. The solution at the time was a trip down to a relatively new bakery in Aiea for some tiramisu. The taste was decent, but it was hard paying over $3.50 for just one little piece.

So when the following Friday arrived after yet another “challenging” week, I called up the hubs on the way home from work to say we were going to go grocery shopping for some tiramisu ingredients as soon as he got home.
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Today’s recipe is for a classic brownie with walnuts. Growing up, I wasn’t so crazy about nuts. But as I got older I started to appreciate the added taste and texture that it added to certain recipes. And since I needed to make something this weekend to use up the remaining walnuts I had from the banana muffins the other day, here we have whole wheat walnut brownies. And really, what’s better than endorphin-releasing chocolate with walnuts?
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Round two of late night baking…. What happens when you eat the last piece of breading pudding in the house?
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Wanting to create a dessert using local ingredients, I came up with this intense Kona Coffee Dark Chocolate Cake with Macadamia Nut Sauce. Disclaimer: For dark chocolate lovers only!
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Did you ever get a craving for cookies at 10:30 p.m. on a work night…and actually go and make them? I looked at the bake time on my recipe, 10 to 15 minutes. I thought, that’s pretty fast I’ll have cookies in no time. Wrong! With the rummaging through the cupboards for ingredients, mixing up the batch, baking time, and cleaning up, it was 11:15 p.m. before I took my first bite of oatmeal chocolate chip pudding cookie. Was it worth it? I think so. Anyway, somebody has to make use of the caffeine laden diet soda in the fridge at work.
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