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Wednesday, December 13, 2000
Not that the famous family connection is given any extra attention. The recipe sits there patiently on page 112, with no special mention.
The cookbook is called "Sing for Your Supper" and is a project of music teacher Nancy Hunt. Chapters run from Ono Overtures to Dolce Desserts and are dressed up with musical quotes such as Richard Strauss' "Never look at the trombones. It only encourages them."
To order, call 922-2744, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Cost is $12, plus $3.50 shipping.
Combine flour, soda and salt; set aside. Mix butter, sugars, vanilla and water until creamy; beat in eggs. Stir in nuts and coconut; fold in chocolate chips by hand. Chill. Drop onto ungreased cookie sheets by teaspoons. Bake at 375 degrees for 9-11 minutes.Wally & Christine's Chocolate Chip Cookies
2-1/4 cups flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 sticks butter, softened
3/4 cup sugar
3/4 cup firmly packed brown sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 teaspoon water
2 eggs
3 cups semi-sweet chocolate chips
2 cups chopped nuts
1/2 cup shredded coconut
Nutritional information unavailable.
Until last month, Troy's was Donato's Ristorante E Carpacceria, the business owned by Haley, but the high-priced Italian menu controlled by chef Donato Loperfido. Both partners came from Sarento's Top of the I.
After 18 months, the two parted ways in November due to professional differences, Haley said.
Mounting food costs had simply pushed prices too high, he said. "We started out as an affordable restaurant and grew into this fine-dining monster."
The Troy's kitchen will soon be taken over by James Rosenberry, former executive chef at Roy Yamaguchi's flagship restaurant in Hawaii Kai, Haley said. The new menu offers a variety of seafood and pasta -- "the prices are way better than before."
Troy's is open for dinner, 5:30 to 10 p.m. nightly, with happy hours and late-night menus Thursdays to Saturdays. Jazz entertainment is offered Fridays and Saturdays. For reservations call 738-5655.
Tomorrow's grand-opening cocktail party begins at 9 p.m. and is open to the public with complimentary food, wine tasting and a four-piece jazz band.
"I'm going to pack 'em in and open up the back door to stretch it out," Haley said.
Girl Scout cookies: Scouts are selling bottles of milk and samples of their cookies at Honolulu City Lights on weekends and for all of the last week of December. They'll sell out of two booths and wagons on the Honolulu Hale grounds. Proceeds benefit the Scouts and the City Lights program.
Ronald McDonald House: Buy a Pillsbury chilled dough product from Foodland or Sack 'N Save and a portion of what you spend will be donated to the Ronald's house in Hawaii. The promotion will run through Jan. 2. The Ronald McDonald House provides living quarters for families of hospitalized children.
"The Enchanted Black Forest of Bavaria": Kapiolani Community College culinary students offer a buffet of old-world desserts, 6-8:30 p.m. Friday, Ohelo Dining Rooms, KCC. Also, bid for gingerbread houses. Cost is $25 to benefit pastry arts programs. Call 734-9499, 10 a.m. to 6:30 p.m.
Tea at 1024: Celebrate the anniversary of the Boston Tea Party in a gathering meant to restore good will "between the mother country and the colonies," Friday, $12.95. Seatings at 11 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. include entertainment. Hats suggested -- the crazier the better. Call 521-9596.
Kamuela Pride: Hoku's in the Kahala Mandarin Oriental showcases beef from the Big Island through Saturday. A sampling: Beef Adobo Musubi, Wasabi Black-Pepper-Crusted Beef Carpaccio, Belgian-Style Beef Stew Encroute and Wok-Fried Ginger Hoisin Beef. Call 739-8780.
Opening night "Stomp": This benefit for the Hawaii Restaurant Association includes pupus at Dixie Grill, trolley ride via Honolulu City Lights to Hawaii Theatre for Golden Circle seats at the opening of "Stomp" and post-show cast party, 6 p.m. Dec. 20. Cost is $100. Call 536-9105.
Also on Dec. 20, "Stomp" cast members will stage a free mini -performance, noon-1 p.m., Restaurant Row. The event will feature contests for lunch with the cast that day and tickets to that night's show. Bring items to be added to the "Stomp" set.
tropica: The Westin Maui opens a beachfront restaurant, tropica, Dec. 22. Executive chef Christian Hugo Jorgensen's menu takes as its theme "fire and ice." A wood-burning pizza oven, rotisserie and tableside "lava grills" contrasts with a raw bar on ice. The menu also emphasizes ties to Alaska, offering a From Maui to Alaska dessert of coconut poundcake with grilled fruits and pineapple ice, flamed with meringue and rum sauce. Call (808) 667-2525.
Ruth's Chris Steak House: Also opening Dec. 22 is the third Ruth's Chris in Hawaii, at the Shops at Wailea. Dinner will be served 5-9 p.m.; reservations are being taken for dinners and holiday parties. The steakhouse is an international chain, with outlets in Restaurant Row on Oahu and in Lahaina. Call 874-8880.
Cooking Class for Singles: Kindred Hearts presents a culinary class featuring holiday cooking, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Dec. 19. Call 524-2712 for details. Costs $35.
"Enhancing Dysphagia Diets": Learn about this swallowing disorder and preparing food for people who suffer from it, 7 p.m. Dec. 21, Castle Medical Center. Call 263-5400 to register. Free.
Many people with asthma, emphysema and chronic lung conditions suffer during New Year's fireworks celebrations. These sessions are designed to help them avoid problems.
Dr. Jeffrey Kam, an asthma/allergy specialist with Straub Clinic and Hospital, will be available to answer questions, along with a pharmacist, respiratory therapist and technical specialists. They will conduct asthma screenings, discuss inhalers and nebulizers and how to use respirator masks to cope with the fireworks smoke.
The program will run from 1 to 3 p.m. Saturday at Ward Warehouse and from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Dec. 30 at Ala Moana Center stage.
Information: 524-6755.
Castle Community Care
Clinics will be at these locations if the flu vaccine is received. Medicare Part B free. Others at high risk will pay $16 for flu vaccine, $26 for pneumonia shot.
Call Castle Community Care at 234-7142 for more information.
Tomorrow -- Safeway Aikahi, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Dec. 14 -- Safeway Waimalu, 3 to 7 p.m.
Dec. 15 -- Times Waipahu, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.; and at the Big Island's Prince Kuhio Longs, 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. and 2:30 to 6 p.m.
Dec. 16 -- Times Temple Valley, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.; and at the Big Island's Kailua-Kona Longs, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. and 3 to 6 p.m.
Dec. 19 -- Longs Lihue on Kauai, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., 2 to 6 p.m.
Medical CornerDaily, 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. at 300 Rodgers St. (836-3900); 660 Kailua Road (266-3900); 890 Kamokila (674-1600); and 94-752 Hikimoe St. in Waipahu (676-5000).
