By Craig T. Kojima, Star-Bulletin
Lemon curd makes an easy parfait with berries
and crushed vanilla wafers.
Curd -- as in lemon, lime, lilikoi, cranberry or pineapple curd -- is a custard-like dessert spooned out of a jar and it will be available at St. Andrew's Priory School's Ho'olaule'a, scheduled for 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday. Call 536-2400.
The students and their parents have prepared 500 8-ounce jars that will sell for $5.25 each -- a slight increase over last year, but then last year's smaller batch sold out in just 30 minutes.
This is seriously fruity, smooth, flavorful stuff. It makes great trifles, tart fillings or dessert toppings.
The Ho'olaule'a includes a Kiddieland, rummage sale, crafts, garden shop and other fair-type entertainment, but the cornerstone is the Country Store and its 50-plus items, from homemade dog biscuits to bean soup mixes to Plums in Port Wine to herbal vinegars to pickled garlic to aromatherapy pillows.
Country Store co-chair Jacque Miyasato says her crew has been working for months on the miscellaneous foodstuffs and other items and hopes to make $10,000 this year.
For their bounty she credits a parent, Neil Otani, who brought in donations of peppers, tomatoes, papaya, plums, bananas, pineapple and more from his company, Fukunaga Produce.
"He keeps us going all summer long. He'll call and say, I've got five cases and I'm too greedy to say no," she says. Even it it means searching for new ways to deal with, say, bananas. Witness this year's new entries: Banana Chutney and Banana-Green Mango Chutney.
By the way, Miss Muffet's curds and whey were actually the separated parts of coagulated milk. The Priory's version is a bazillion times more appetizing.
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In the race toward the holidays, the most neglected part of the house often becomes the refrigerator. Humming faithfully away in the kitchen, all it gets for its effort is to be packed full of junk, much of which is left to turn skanky. Is your fridge a house of horrors?
For this reason, Whirlpool has declared Nov. 17 Clean Out Your Refrigerator Day. It's a day to be kind to that big-hearted appliance before you have to find a place to park that Thanksgiving turkey.
In celebration of this special, preventative-maintenance day, we are collecting refrigerator horror stories. What's the ugliest thing you've ever seen in the fridge? What's the hardest thing about keeping yours clean?
Just about any scary story will do. Time is short, though, so please send items by fax (523-8509) or email (bshimabukuro@starbulletin.com).
Address faxes to It Came From the Fridge, Features Section, Honolulu Star-Bulletin.
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