Review: Simply Ming One-Pot Meals, Part 2

Simply Ming

This is Part 2 of my review series on Simply Ming One-Pot Meals: Quick, Healthy & Affordable Recipes, which will cover the cooking demonstration and book signing with celebrity chef Ming Tsai that I attended at Macy’s Ala Moana on November 16, 2010.

I had originally stated that I would start cooking in Part 2, but since I was able to attend this event, I’ll move cooking tryouts to Part 3.

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Garden Update November 11, 2010

Since we’ve moved, Mr. Pikko has really done a great job with planting a lot of herbs for me to use. While I put this into my “Learn Stuff” category, this is really just going to be my gardening blog. About my husband’s gardening, anyway, since he does all the work and I just take pictures.

One of the first things he planted was a lot of strawberries. They actually give a couple every week, so that’s actually pretty nice!

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How to Cube a Mango

Growing up in Hawaii, you would think that I’ve got mango trees all around me and I could eat them anytime I wanted to. It’s partially true. I grew up on the Big Island and there are common mango trees. The catch is, most of them were in Kalapana, which is a pretty dang far drive from the main town of Hilo.

If we wanted the ultimate mango, Hayden, they had to come from Honolulu, which was practically like the mainland for the

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