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KILOHANA GRILL Newsletter

'Okakopa, October, 2013

In This Issue

HAWAIIAN EVENTS

DAYS OF MY YOUTH

HAWAIIAN EVENTS

October 5, 2013 (Saturday)
3rd Annual Sacramento Aloha Festival Cal Expo, 1600 Exposition Blvd., Sacramento
10:00 am - 6:00 pm

October 5, 2013 (Saturday)
The Brothers Cazimero With Special Guest Amy Hanaiali'i
Napa Valley Performing Arts Center at Lincoln Theater, 100 California Drive, Yountville
7:00 pm

October 19, 2013 (Saturday) - October 20, 2013 (Sunday)
Na Lei Hulu I Ka Wekiu presents "The Hula Show 2013 - Ka Leo Kanaka"
Palace of Fine Arts Theatre, 3301 Lyon Street (at Bay Street), San Francisco
Saturday (October 19):8:00 pm
Sunday (October 20): 3:00 pm

October 25, 2013 (Friday) - October 27, 2013 (Sunday)
Na Lei Hulu I Ka Wekiu presents "The Hula Show 2013 - Ka Leo Kanaka"
Palace of Fine Arts Theatre, 3301 Lyon Street (at Bay Street), San Francisco
Friday (October 25): 8:00 pm
Saturday (October 26):8:00 pm
Sunday (October 27): 3:00 pm

http://pw1.netcom.com/~halkop/events.html

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PIDGIN CORNER - LEARN SOME LOCAL "SLANG"

Chicken Skin=Goose bumps

I hate Halloween time when they show all the scary movies! Gives me chicken skin!

HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE MONTH

Aumakua - ow mah koo ah

Family god or guardian spirit

In Hawaiian mythology, an Aumakua was often a deified ancestor. Some families had many aumakua that also included plants, places, rocks, animals. For more, check out:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aumakua

October means little goblins, the beginning of fall and cooler weather..and a few more months before 2014!

Malama Pono - Take care

Hope you are all well -

Pam and Myron Kashima and all of the staff at Kilohana Grill

DAYS OF MY YOUTH - Growing up on Kauai

Myron Kashima

Halloween - Island style

Halloween in a plantation camp was great as a kid! Kids in the "camp" really didn't have money to buy store-bought costumes. We didn't dare cut up mom's sheets to make ghost costumes, so instead, we did the "traditional" paper bag on your head look. There were lots of kids with the same idea! Perhaps that was the best costume because you couldn't tell who was who because we all looked alike - ha ha!

I LOVED Halloween because we got to have all the goodies we wanted! The treats weren't the usual store bought candy, but it was even better. Families gave out their own delicious ethnic home made treats. Our camp was predominately made up of Japanese, Portuguese and Filipino families

Here's some of the things that were given out....
The Filipino families gave us:
Bibinka: a sweet rice cake
Cascaron - sweet rice cake on a skewer covered with a sugar glaze

Bitsu bitsu: sweet potato fritter

The Japanese families gave out:

Age potate: Sweet potato

Chi chi dango: sweet rice cake

Andagi: deep fried round donuts

The Portuguese gave:

Malasadas: donuts (no holes) covered with sugar

On Halloween night, the camp would be alive with kids running from house to house! We would eat the goodies as we got them. It was a different time then, we didn't have to worry about being escorted by our parents or afraid to eat the home made sweets.

After getting our fill of goodies, we did the usual crazy kid antics. I won't elaborate on all the harmless "humbug" we used to get into with water balloons, etc, etc. that were part of the Halloween fun.....(which we hoped our parents wouldn't hear about!!)

RECIPE OF THE MONTH:
Witch Hat Cookies

Here's a simple recipe that the kids will enjoy making:

ingredients:

Keebler Fudge Stripe cookies

Hershey Kisses

Orange frosting

Make it:

Turn cookies upside down. Squeeze a large amount of orange frosting on each cookie; top with a Hershey Kiss. Let harden.

http://blog.cabinconnection.com/2012/10/26/5-kid-friendly-halloween-recipes/

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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