My Favorite Things
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Above: Best Blue encaustic 19" x 47"
This painting is in the Hawai'i Public Radio newsroom. Stop by and say hi!
Bev and I have been obsessing over this recipe. I'm recreating a memory planted by DL. Mmmmm
Heavenly Oysters
2 huge jars fresh shucked oysters
2 lbs button mushrooms, chopped in half or other large chunks
2 cups cream or half and half, or a mix of both
i-2 sticks butter
sweet cream sherry (Abe Lincoln style)
2 onions. sliced
minced garlic to taste
1/2 cup or more chopped parsley, mix american and cilantro
salt , i used some celery salt one year and it was good!
paprika or cajun spice, nutmeg is sometimes used but i don’t know about that
panko or breadcrumbs, toasted with butter and lightly salted
Snip the oysters in half or other large chunks. Saute and lightly season oysters in a pan with butter until a lot of the liquid is out but they’re still juicy. Save liquid and set oysters aside. Saute onions until soft. Set aside. Saute mushrooms with garlic and season lightly with salt and pepper, set aside extra liquid and add sherry to taste. Mix cream with salt and paprika.
In a big buttered casserole, layer panko, then oysters and mushrooms and onions, then some cream and sherry. Do another layer and top with panko and scattered parsley.
Liberally dot with butter chips and pour on more sherry.
Bake at 350 uncovered for 45 minutes or until oysters curl back from the sides and the whole thing seems unified. Other recipes use the oyster liqueur for more liquid but I think it’s better dense. Add more sherry, if anything, and don’t forget to flavor each step of the way!
Heavenly Oysters
2 huge jars fresh shucked oysters
2 lbs button mushrooms, chopped in half or other large chunks
2 cups cream or half and half, or a mix of both
i-2 sticks butter
sweet cream sherry (Abe Lincoln style)
2 onions. sliced
minced garlic to taste
1/2 cup or more chopped parsley, mix american and cilantro
salt , i used some celery salt one year and it was good!
paprika or cajun spice, nutmeg is sometimes used but i don’t know about that
panko or breadcrumbs, toasted with butter and lightly salted
Snip the oysters in half or other large chunks. Saute and lightly season oysters in a pan with butter until a lot of the liquid is out but they’re still juicy. Save liquid and set oysters aside. Saute onions until soft. Set aside. Saute mushrooms with garlic and season lightly with salt and pepper, set aside extra liquid and add sherry to taste. Mix cream with salt and paprika.
In a big buttered casserole, layer panko, then oysters and mushrooms and onions, then some cream and sherry. Do another layer and top with panko and scattered parsley.
Liberally dot with butter chips and pour on more sherry.
Bake at 350 uncovered for 45 minutes or until oysters curl back from the sides and the whole thing seems unified. Other recipes use the oyster liqueur for more liquid but I think it’s better dense. Add more sherry, if anything, and don’t forget to flavor each step of the way!
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The lilikoi vines outside my studio are voracious---scrambling, leaping, waving those tendrils! This drawing is in the show at Fishcake on Kamani Street.
Barry Lopez won a National Book Award for Arctic Dreams decades ago and has amassed a distinguished body of work expressing a deep connection between nature and humanity. Give this interview a little time as he reveals his working methods in the way he responds.
This is the sky over Honolulu one bright summer day, 2009.
Oceans
I have a feeling that my boat
Has struck, down there in the depths,
Against a great thing.
And nothing happens!
Nothing. Silence. Waves.
--Nothing happens?
Or has everything Happened,
And are we standing now, quietly, in the new life?
– Juan Ramon Jimenez
It's nice when "trippy" is one of the criteria. This is a fun screen saver, if you can handle it.
It's amazing how elements just click sometimes and a fully harmonious painting occurs. This depicts different stages in the life of an American Lotus, those are the white ones tinged with buttery yellow. Lotus flowers are huge, face size. Their stems are sturdy and flecked with thorns. Their scent is of body and licorice, intoxicating.