Lunch

Just some good ol' homemade fresh caprese salad on a hot sunny day. Nom!

Cherry tomatoes, fresh mozarella balls, basil, drizzled in olive oil, raspberry balsamic glaze, with salt and pepper!

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Fried Egg over Polenta with Herb Pesto

As you can see by two foodie posts in a row - I'm in a cooking frenzy! Made using this recipe with a couple modifications. I'm not an olive freak so I omitted it from the pesto and have not yet mastered the art of poaching so fried egg it was! It was still delicious sans olives but I would suggest upping the salt content a little to make up for it! 

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Garnet Pilaf

In keeping with watching my budget - I thought it best to start cooking at home again a little more. For lunch, I cooked this Garnet Pilaf recipe by Sprouted Kitchen. Let me just say it is deee-lish! Roasted sweet potato with smoked paprika on a bed of rice/quinoa pilaf sprinkled with chives. Not only are her recipes divine, her images (taken by her husband) are just as gorgeous and inticing!

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Coconut Tapioca Pudding with Smoked Sesame Seeds

Um hai. I grew up loving tapioca and coconut and sesame - thanks Hawaii and your melting pot of cultures and food! Looks like I've found the next dessert I'll be experimenting with this weekend!

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Mini Doughnuts

These were found on my mission to find a birthday present at Ala Moana and I decided to cut through Shirokiya and check out the new foodie goodies they have there now! So glad I did...

Petit Custa Ginza - mmm how grateful I am to have found you! Provider of perfect, pillowy, bite sized Japanese doughnuts filled with dreamy concoctions of custard, adzuki with green tea, caramel crunch, chocolate, custard, cream cheese, strawberry and pineapple! If you wanna see how these delectable treats are made, there's a video link here.

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