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Shrimp Ti Leaf
scores big at
tailgate parties

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The University of Hawaii Warriors play San Jose State on Saturday night, a sports event of some magnitude, especially considering that it's homecoming. But here in feed-me land, it means just one thing: tailgating.

A good time to bring up the latest enterprise of my colleague, Jo McGarry, a Midweek columnist and writer of the Star-Bulletin's advertising supplement Food for Thought (it's in the Friday Weekend section).

Jo has written "The Hawai'i Tailgate Cookbook," featuring highlights of her 6-year-old KCCN radio show, broadcast from Aloha Stadium on game nights.

Jo's cookbook also conveniently answers reader K. Thompson's e-mailed barbecue request. He said he'd heard of people making up a sort of seafood boil, wrapping all the ingredients in foil and steaming the bundle on a grill.

Jo's cookbook has a couple of suggestions for doing this; the recipe below was contributed by chef Russell Siu of 3660 on the Rise and Kakaako Kitchen.

When this cookbook was in its early stages, I helped edit some of the recipes. I was struck by how elaborate some of these dishes were. Tailgate cooking has come a long way from burgers and ribs.

You'll find in this cookbook chef Alan Wong's Opihi Bag, another seafood-in-foil suggestion that's deluxe enough to be served in his restaurant.

Jo will be signing her cookbook from 6 to 7 p.m. Friday at Bestsellers Koko Marina. On Oct. 30 she and chef Elmer Guzman of Sam Choy's Diamond Head, a contributor to her book, will appear in a noon to 2 p.m. cooking demonstration at Daiei Kaheka. Or catch up with her on the radio.

Keeping shell on shrimp, cut backside to clean vein. Butterfly shrimp by spreading open and flattening.

Combine marinade ingredients in a nonreactive bowl. Add shrimp and marinate 1 hour.

Prepare a grill.

Place a row of ti leaves on the center of a piece of foil. Place shrimp on ti leaves. Pour some marinade over shrimp and cover again with ti leaves. Fold foil over ti leaves and seal so there are no leaks. Place atop barbecue and grill 5 to 10 minutes.

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Asterisk (*) after nutritional analyses in the Body & Soul section indicates calculations by Joannie Dobbs of Exploring New Concepts, a nutritional consulting firm.