Kauai Tropical Cooking Tantrum Finale...

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The remainder of the dinners. The complete menu for the week, and a summary of the photos in the link...

What a fun week of cooking, friendship, laughter, good food, and pouring over Cathy's antique cookbook collection. It was just all over far too soon. Until next time!

The Menu for the Week:

Day 1 Friday

Foie Gras / Provence olives/ St. Andre cheese/ homemade crackers

Julia’s French Onion Soup- Gratineed version

Salade Nicoise

Creamy Lemon Pudding

Day 2 Saturday

Breakfast: Homemade Bagels/Cream Cheese/ Smoked Salmon

Dinner: Hot Artichoke Spread/ Soufflé crackers, roasted red peppers and green beans

Cathy’s Pot Roast with Potatoes, Carrots, Onions, Celery, and Gravy

Richard’s Potato Rolls

Pat’s Cranberry/Pecan Salad

Tim’s Double Chocolate Marshmallow Cake with Dominican Cherry Frosting, dark chocolate ganache, and maraschino cherries

Day 3 Sunday

Breakfast: Scrambled eggs/ veggies/ toasted homemade Dakota Bread

Dinner:

Cathy's Salmon in Puff Pastry with spinach/cream cheese

Cathy's Roasted red parsley potatoes

Steamed green beans

Tim’s Lime Curd Tart/ Whipped Cream

Day 4 Monday

Leftovers! Pot Roast and Salmon in Puff Pastry

Day 5 Tuesday--in which Richard totally trashes Cathy's Kitchen with a down home chicken fry up!

Music City Missy's Nashville Hot Chicken

Mashed Potatoes / Chicken Cream Gravy

Glazed Carrots with Tangerine, Cinnamon, and Honey

Cathy's Pickled Beets

Richard’s Potato Rolls

Day 6 Wednesday

Richard’s Chicken Cordon Bleu

Tim’s Potatoes Dauphin

Glazed Brussel Sprouts with Bacon and Balsamic Vinegar

Kaiserschmarr'n: “ The Emperor’s Mess”- German vanilla pancake with cinnamon apple compote

Day 7 Thursday

Cathy's Oven-fried Chimichangas

Cathy’s Re-fried Black Beans

Mexican Rice

Tangelo wedges

Day 8 Friday

Breakfast: Cathy’s veggie/leftovers Frittata/ Toasted Dakota Bread

Dinner:

Austrian Carrot Soup

Richard’s Sauerbraten with Gingersnap Gravy and Austrian Servietten Knödel'n (Deluxe Dumplings with caramelized onions, garlic, bacon, parsley, and Emmentaler)

Richard’s Christmas Mulled Wine Red Cabbage

Richard’s Bavarian Krautsalat (Pickled White Cabbage Salad w. bacon)

Cathy's Pickled Beets

Tim & Cathy’s Lemon Strudel

Day 9 Saturday

Breakfast: Cathy's Breakfast Casserole with toasted Dakota Bread, fresh pineapple

Pupus on the Lanai: Champagne and James Beard's Liver Pate with Souffléd Crackers

Leftover Sauerbraten Dinner!

Sad farewells smileys/frown.gif

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Description of pix in the album:

Beautiful Kilauea Lighthouse

Nashville Hot Chicken Dinner

Lunch stop at Ono-Char Burger

Lunch stop at Hamura Saimin Shop in Lihue

Tortured food 101: The right tool for the job—A rubber plumber’s hammer does quite nicely to pound out schnitzels.

Chicken Cordon Bleu pounded, stuffed, breaded, and ready to fry.

The Pommes Dauphin piped and ready for the fryer.

Cinnamon Apple Compote

The cooked Chicken Cordon Bleu ready to plate.

Chicken Cordon Bleu dinner

Looking out over beautiful Hanalei Valley and Bay

“Our” Beach

Phyllis presiding over the kitchen festivities from her perch.

Cathy’s Chimichangas in process then plated.

The plated Kaiserschmarr’n with cinnamon apples.

Fabulous breakfasts

Carrot Soup cooking

Cathy’s grandmother’s lemon curd strudel filling

Krautsalat, cabbage is salted and draining

The beast lying in state in the fridge after 5 days of brining (drying it off before browning)

The Meisterstrudelerin busy pulling strudel dough

Carrot soup finish: pureed and cream stirred in.

Lemon Strudel ready to roll!

Roll, roll, rolling der Strudel.

Happy Meisterstrudelerin

Finished Krautsalat

The dumpling mix ready to shape and steam.

A much needed break on the lanai

Cathy plating Krautsalat. The dumplings rolled up and ready for the pot.

Carrot soup before pureeing, after, and served.

The Gecko Lanai Mascot

Plated Sauerbraten Dinner

Lemon strudel is served (so rich!!!)

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All I can say is *WoW*...

what a great vacation you had. Thank you for sharing all the lovely tidbits allowing us to live vicariously through you and your cooking adventures with Cathy.

I see saimin in one of the photos....did you have that at Hamura's near Lihue? If so, we have fond memories of dining there as well...Cathy suggested stopping there....it was a fun old Hawaiian experience.

 
Pat, yes that is Hamura

We love that place although it's become quite touristy because of "the blue book" LOL

I put a list of pic descriptions at the bottom of the post, too much time to label each pic individually. But the list follows the pix in order so you can see what's what.

We had fun!

 
I absolutely adore...

the photo of Cathy Z in the background with Phyllis the Parrot. It's so operatic.

This was our 6th trip to Kauai and this was the first time I cried when I left (you can tell how close I am to retirement!!!). I did not want to go home. I'm still wondering Why-Oh-Why-Oh-Who-Oh, Why Did I ever come back to OH-Hio?" (where everything is currently brown, gray, drizzly, and dismal).

I adore this goddess of cooking called Cathy Z. She has taught me so much. She just knows so much. It is a pleasure and an honor to have had this wonderful time together to experience this wonderful week of hedonistic indulgence, friendship, and good food.

Look out Hilo Hattie, we've out-Hawaii'd you.

 
One last comment...

Cathy and Tim's Lemon Strudel is the first dessert in the history of my life that I could not finish because it was too rich. This is a milestone.

 
Beautiful tribute to your friend Richard....thanks for sharing your wonderful trip, it put a smile

on my face.

 
Thank You! for sharing such an amazing event. For event it was! Honestly, I would

have put on 10 pound easily from these meals.

My mind keeps going back to those perfect strips of bacon and the warms buns and the bubbling soups and wondering, just wondering, how that cherry cake tasted.


Oh...and the fact that Cathy has a STRUDEL ROOM. Did ya'll notice that it wasn't made in the kitchen. NO. Not Cathy. She has a separate strudel-event space. And not a single hole in the dough. Baba Opsenica would be proud of you. We wouldn't exactly know what she was saying, but you'd see pride there.

My thanks again to Cathy, her sweetly smiling husband, Richard and Tim for providing an amazing armchair vacation.

Aloha!

 
Chiming in now that I have regained consciousness......

Oh my goodness. Glorious hedonism. It was such FUN! Rest of the world, begone for a week! Cooking, laughing, plotting the next dish, drinking yet one more glass of wine or champagne, digging through the cookbooks, cooking, cooking, cooking, baking, trying to regain counter space from underneath the mountains of dishes. Resetting, starting over in the morning. It nearly killed me but I would do it again in a heartbeat. I spent the last week "drying out" from wine and food. My DH didn't even eat anything substantial until last evening (6 days). It was like living in Henry VIII's time only with forks.

Doubt it? Almost 7 lbs butter, 60 eggs, a lb of lard, almost 5 lbs flour, same of sugar, a lb of brown sugar, a 9+ lb slab of beef just for the sauerbraten....need I go on?

Richard and I "met" on Gail's Swap in 1994. The only thing better than having Richard here is having both Richard and Tim here. Both have become close, dear friends. "Over the top" is how I always say they approach cooking and baking. Deliciously and lovingly over the top. I am only sad that Ohio is so far from Hawaii.

As Richard wrote to me: "And now we diet".

 
The cake and the stretching of the strudel dough

Marilyn, Tim honored me by making a 3-layer cake that I begged my Mom to make for almost every young birthday I had. The recipe is from the 1950s and is called Double Chocolate Marshmallow Cake. While not up to today's chocolate standards (the recipe, not Tim's fine baking skills) it is a fine cake and Tim went to the extreme by making an outrageous boiled frosting with maraschino cherry juice in it. We loved it. I took about half the cake to my workplace and it was snarfed up in about 15 minutes. Boiled frosting is not common here so most had never experienced it. Tim had frosting leftover and I took it to a colleague who has kids that love to cook and create things. The kids had a ball with it and begged for more. Fun!

Strudel dough must be stretched from all sides- my dining table is rectangular and long so an alternate had to be found. In my office I have a table- and it proved the perfect place to stretch dough. So now I will call it the "Strudel Room" in honor of both Tim and Marilyn.

 
"It was like living in Henry VIII's time only with forks."... and...

Sunshine!
Coconut Palms
Sandy Beaches
Turquoise Waves
and
Lots
of
Chickens!!!

 
What a wonderful, memorable trip! Thx for sharing. Your comment on why-oh-why...going back to

ohio, reminded me of my youngest, grabbing a banister, yelling "I don't want to go, I don't want to go, You can't make me go!!!"

 
WOW! Great photos! I love the gecko visitor! I may need some recipes!

These both looked fantastic! As did Cathy's salmon. I've seen it in T&T and now I may have to make it. Wonderful.

Richard’s Chicken Cordon Bleu
Tim’s Potatoes Dauphin

I thought I wanted the lemon streusel recipe til I saw the photos! Yikes it sure is a 2 man job. smileys/smile.gif

Thanks for sharing--it was nice to take a vicarious Hawaiian trip during our snowstorm!

 
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