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Kaiseki dinner: L'Uraku is offering a Kaiseki-style dinner Friday for $40 per person plus tax and gratuity. Wine with dinner is an additional $15. For reservations, call 955-0552.
Longing for Longhi: The book "Longhi's: Recipes and Reflections From Maui's Most Opinionated Restaurateur," by restaurant owner Bob Longhi, is now in its second printing. Longhi will autograph copies Friday and Saturday at Neiman Marcus in Ala Moana Center. For information, call 1-808-667-2288.
Wining and dining: Ron Shinoda and Wes Zane present Moet et Chandon and the Mondavi Family of Wines in a five-course diner, 6 p.m. Monday at 3660 On the Rise. For reservations, call 737-1177.
Meet the Food Network chefs: David Rosengarten, Jacques Pepin, Curtis Aikens, Mary Sue Miliken and Susan Feniger are filming two one-hour Food Network specials in Hawaii. Also, Sissy Biggers of "Ready ... Set ...Cook" will host a program with Hawaii chefs. Filming will be noon-5 p.m. Sept. 26-27 at the Sheraton Waikiki and Royal Hawaiian Hotel. For tickets, $45, call 1-800-949-CHEF (2433). Foodland and Sack N Save stores offer a $5 discount to Maika'i members.
Kudos: Grace S. Kusuhara, baker at the University Laboratory School,was one of the winners in The Peanut Institute's "Peanutty Creations Contest" held in July in Anaheim, Calif. Kusuhara combined peanut butter, tofu, banana and strawberries to create "P-Nut Butter Tulips."
P-nut butter tulips
1/2 cup tofu, soft
1/2 cup mashed potatoes
3 tablespoons sugar
1/4 teaspoon salt
3 tablespoons creamy peanut butter
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 banana, sliced
4 strawberries, sliced
8 lumpia wrappers
Spray wrappers with oil. Place one on another, with corners offset, and fit each pair in a muffin tin. Spray again. Bake at 350 degrees 5 minutes, or until golden brown. Cool.
Mix tofu, potato, sugar, salt, peanut butter and vanilla in blender until smooth.
Put 1/4 cup of mixture in each shell. Top with alternating banana and strawberry slices. Makes 4 servings.
Approximate nutritional analysis per serving: 297 calories, 12.8 total g fat, 2.2 g saturated fat, .97 g cholesterol.*
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