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The Honolulu Advertiser
Posted on: Wednesday, November 15, 2006

FOOD FOR THOUGHT
For those who like it sweet

By Wanda A. Adams
Advertiser Columnist

 •  New ideas from '70s TV chef Muriel Miura

Pawing through back issues, I stumbled across a 1961 article about a Kaimuki High School class called Family Foods whose students had won a national Seventeen magazine competition by compiling a book of breakfast recipes for their teacher, Emily Yamamoto.

Their recipe jogged my memory about a couple of school days breakfast snack requests that are still pending: Vickie Ichioka wants a peanut butter coffee cake served at Kapalama Elementary School in the early 1980s, and Patty Fujimoto is looking for a puffy, crunchy, sweet toast served at Ka'iulani Elementary years ago.

Meanwhile, keep yourself busy with this. Clearly, fat and sugar were of little concern to the Kaimuki students. If you want to make this open-face sandwich a bit healthier, use whole-grain bread, a very low-fat margarine and sugar-free or all-fruit jam.

HOT JAM SANDWICHES KAIMUKI

  • 1 cup butter or margarine, softened

  • 1 cup flaked coconut

  • 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon

  • 1 cup apricot jam

  • 8 slices raisin bread

  • Butter or butter-flavored cooking spray

    In a medium bowl, cream butter until soft and fluffy; add coconut. In another bowl, blend together cinnamon and jam. Spread bread slices with butter mixture and jam mixture. Melt a little butter in a saute pan, or coat a nonstick pan with butter-flavored cooking spray. Briefly fry sandwiches on one side until golden brown. Serve hot.

    Makes 8 servings.

  • Per serving: 500 calories, 29 g fat, 18 g saturated fat, 60 mg cholesterol, 400 mg sodium, 57 g carbohydrate, 3 g fiber, 33 g sugar, 5 g protein
  • A reader called to ask for a Portuguese sausage recipe for her son, who is living on the Mainland. And here it is:

    PORTUGUESE SAUSAGE

  • 2 pounds pork (mostly lean, but some fat)

  • 1/4 cup water

  • 1 tablespoon vinegar

  • 8 cloves garlic

  • 2 small, hot red peppers ("Hawaiian" peppers), minced

  • 1 teaspoon salt

  • 1/4 teaspoon pepper

  • 1/4 teaspoon paprika

  • 3-4 drops Liquid Smoke

    Chop pork into fine pieces. In a bowl, combine pork with remaining ingredients. Cover in plastic wrap, and refrigerate for 2 days, turning from time to time. Form into small patties and fry until golden-brown on both sides and cooked through.

    Makes 4 servings.

  • Per serving: 220 calories, 9 g fat, 3 g saturated fat, 90 mg cholesterol, 500 mg sodium, 2 g carbohydrate, 0 g fiber, 0 g sugar, 32 g protein
  • Send recipes and queries to Wanda A. Adams, Food Editor, Honolulu Advertiser, P.O. Box 3110, Honolulu, HI 96802. Fax: 525-8055. E-mail: wadams@honoluluadvertiser.com.

    For more information about our 150th anniversary cookbook, call 535-8189 (message phone; your call will be returned). You can order the cookbook online.