> Saturday.  Raining.  53 degrees in San Antonio.
> I'm cooking and serving up a "sort of" typical Hawaiian Saturday,
> kick-back, sit-on-the-floor or drag up your beach mat, meal.
>
> Heated up a pot of teriyaki sauce, made with Aloha Shoyu, lots of
> garlic and fresh ginger, chinese chives, mirin, guava jam, a tot of
> Passion Fruit syrup, turbinado (raw) sugar, let this cool a bit; then,
> a platter of skinless chicken thighs soaking in this bath.
> Made a big bowl of garbanzo bean dip with garlic, ginger, italian
> herbs, a dash of curry spices and red pepper flakes, and added bleu
> cheese dressing to thin it down just enough.  Laid in a supply of
> veggie chips....(including taro!! by George!!), corn chips, and sweet
> blue potatoe chips.  Yumm!!
>
> Gonna cook up some sticky rice, and have some nearly raw, hot veggies.
>
> Found some sweet banana's at HEB, gonna skin um, split um, shake um in
> a plastic bag with turbinado sugar and cinnamon, and then grill them on
> the dying fire.
>
> A little Hill Country 2000 Merlot, and a few friends over to share this
> with.
>
> Did I miss anything??  Oh, yeah....grilling on a cast-iron
> Japanese-style hibachi from Long's drug store, ($12), with lump
> charcoal!!
>
> Bill
>
