Baby Girl is turning 7, so I made cupcake cones instead of regular cupcakes for her to take to school for her classmates.
When I was growing up, we’d go over to my Grandma Mu’s house a lot and sometimes either her or my mom would have corn chowder for us to eat, which was really great because Hilo is a very rainy town. It’s cold and the air is very wet, leaving you feeling kinda blue, so the corn chowder I ate was always very comforting and delicious.
One time when I was old enough to remember, my mom told me their secret ingredient: a packet of Lipton Noodle Soup
In case you hadn’t realized from all the things I casually mention, our family is slowly making our home into what I’ve now learned is called an “urban homestead”. Everything we’ve started growing here is edible. Everything that isn’t, we’re trying to either get rid of or it serves some other purpose.
For example, I insisted that Mr. Pikko not cut down the ti-leaf plants because it was useful for ropemaking. Sure, it would be a primitive rope and I ain’t gonna go making some right now.
I know what you’re probably thinking. That is one ugly loaf of bread. But still, it’s my first ever and the whole point of doing this blog is to teach myself how to cook new things.
I’ve always been petrified of baking bread for some reason. I think maybe I’m just intimidated by the word “yeast”. Whenever I see that in a recipe my brain starts to turn around and run away screaming, “NOOOOOOOOO nononono not yeast!” I don’t know why.
It’s been raining mangoes down here at the Pikko household, with this week bringing a particularly heavy set of fruit deciding it was time to plunge down to the ground without waiting for us. We gave away almost 20 manoges on Easter Sunday, but by the time Wednesday rolled around, we had over sixty that we had either picked or picked up from the ground and were partially salvageable. I’d wake up the morning after picking in the afternoon and find five more on the ground. So frustrating!
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