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HAWAIIAN EVENTS
November 1, 2009 (Sunday)
Keola Beamer with Neil Hogan
Carriage House Theatre, Montalvo Arts Center, 15400 Montalvo Road,
Saratoga
7:30 pm
November 6, 2009 (Friday) - November 8, 2009 (Sunday)
Kumu Hula Association of
Northern California presents
"29th Annual Ia 'Oe E Ka La Hula Festival &
Competition"
Alameda County Fairgrounds, 4501 Pleasanton Avenue, Pleasanton
Friday: Solo Competition 5:00 pm - 11:00 pm
Saturday & Sunday: Group Competition
11:00 am - 6:00 pm
November 14, 2009 (Saturday)
7th Annual Kapalakiko Newsletter Fundraiser 'Aha'aina (Feast) --
"Take Me Back to Waimanalo"
Featuring Cyril Pahinui in Concert with the
Kapalakiko Hawaiian Band
Newark Pavilion, 6430 Thornton Avenue, Newark
Doors Open: 4:00 pm
November 21, 2009 (Saturday)
Academy of Hawaiian Arts
presents "Waikiki"
Chabot College Performing Arts
Center, 25555 Hesperian Blvd., Hayward
8:00 pm
November 22, 2009 (Sunday)
Hawaiian Native Voices presents
"Willie K"
Also Featuring Hanapa'a and James Bent & the Generation Band
Tiki Tom's, 300 29th Avenue, Oakland
2:00 pm
November 25: Kilohana Grill closes at 2:30
November 26-30 Kilohana Grill closed
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RECIPE OF THE MONTH -
Double Onion Mashed Potatoes
Ingredients:
1 Tbsp Butter
1 Chopped Onion
1 lb red potatoes
1/4 c milk
1/4 c yogurt
Seasonings
1/2 c French's French Fried Onions
Optional:
To make it Hawaiian style: Add diced SPAM!
Serves: 4
Directions:
Melt
butter in a large skillet. Add onion, cook and stir over low heat for
15 minutes to carmelize. Cut potatoes into large cubes and place in a
microwave safe bowl. Cover and microwave on HIGH for 8 minutes or
until tender. Carefully remove cover and mash with milk, plain yogurt
and cooked onions. Season to taste with garlic or seasoned salt and
pepper and top with French Fried Onions.
Add diced SPAM and microwave another 2-3 minutes.
Recipe from Something Extra magazine
(Spam entry by me!). |
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Aloha Everyone!
Here's wishing you a great Thanksgiving and hope your day is blessed with good food, good friends and family.
Growing up in Hawaii, school children would make pilgrim's hats and headbands with paper feathers as we learned about the Thanksgiving story, just like here on the "mainland." I remember being confused about what American Indians were all about when I was little, took even longer for me to understand who the Pilgrims were!
We are thankful for all the blessings of the year, for our heatlh, wonderful family and friends and of course, our great customers!
Please note that Kilohana will be closing early on Wednesday, November
25 at 2:30 and will be closed from Thursday through Monday, November 30.
Hope you are all well - Malama Pono - Take care,
Pam and Myron Kashima and all of the staff at Kilohana Grill
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DAYS OF MY YOUTH - MYRON KASHIMA
My Thanksgiving Turkey
 Pam asked me for a Thanksgiving story and for the life of me, I can't remember much about Thanksgiving when I was growing up.
The only thing I recall was a Thanksgiving project we had when I was in grammar school. We had to make a turkey, so my dad went down to my grandparent's rice farm, chased some chicken around and pulled out a few feathers. I/we (of course mom helped) stuck the feathers into a potato and I drew a turkey head, attached it to a chopstick and stuck it into the potato. Pam asked me if it had legs, and I think it did, you guessed it, we probably used more chopsticks.
I'll leave it up to your imagination to picture what my turkey looked like when it was done!
At a recent Thanksgiving gathering, my family on Kauai had a blast making turkeys out of a coconut, some paper and stuff and oh yes, chopsticks. They must have remembered my elementary school project!
Hope you enjoy your Thanksgiving, we are thankful and blessed to be able to share this time with our loved ones. |
POINT OF INTEREST: KALAUPAPA, MOLOKAI
Some 2,200 miles (3540km) southwest of California, in the heart of the
Hawaiian islands, is the island of Molokai.
Father Damien and the Lepers of Kalaupapa :
 Kalaupapa's reputation as a leprosy colony is well-known. Hansen's
disease, the proper term for leprosy, is believed to have spread to
Hawaii from China. The first documented case of leprosy occurred in
1848. Its rapid spread and unknown cure precipitated the urgent need
for complete and total isolation. In early 1866, the first leprosy victims were shipped to Kalaupapa and existed for 7 years before Father Damien arrived.
In 1873, Father Damien deVeuster, aged 33, arrived at Kalaupapa. A
Catholic missionary priest from Belgium, he served the leprosy patients
at Kalaupapa until his death. A most dedicated and driven man, Father
Damien did more than simply administer the faith: he built homes,
churches and coffins; arranged for medical services and funding from
Honolulu, and became a parent to his diseased wards.
With the advent of sulfone drugs in the 1940s, the disease was put in
remission and the sufferers are no longer contagious. The fewer than
100 former patients remaining on the peninsula are free to travel or
relocate elsewhere, but most have chosen to remain where they have
lived for so long. While Kalaupapa is now a National Historic Site, it is also the home of
the few former patients who chose to remain there. So access, is by
law, strictly regulated.
On October 11, 2009, Damien Becomes Hawaii's First Saint by Pope Benedict XVI.
(Note: When we were growing up, we didn't even consider going to Molokai, but today, the island now has resorts and has more tourist amenities. This is one of the laid back islands of Hawaii compared to the hustle and bustle of Oahu where Honolulu and Waikiki are located.)
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PIDGIN CORNER - LEARN SOME LOCAL "SLANG"
Howzit
-"How are you?" , "How's it going", or "How have you been?"
You'll hear this phrase very often at the restaurant. This is a common greeting when island locals get together.
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HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE MONTH
hoku, "ho koo": Star
The early polynesians navigated by the hoku or stars in the sky as they travelled across many miles of ocean
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I hope you enjoyed our newsletter. I welcome your feedback and you can unsubscribe at anytime. Until next month.....
A hui hou - until we meet again
Aloha,
PAM KASHIMA
KILOHANA GRILL
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