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KILOHANA GRILL Newsletter

Pepeluali , February, 2014

In This Issue

HAWAIIAN EVENTS

DAYS OF MY YOUTH

HAWAIIAN EVENTS

February 14, Friday: Valentine's Day

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RECIPE OF THE MONTH:

Milk Chocolate Dipped Strawberries with Macadamia Nuts

Ingredients:

12-16 oz. fresh, ripe strawberries, cleaned
approx 6-oz milk chocolate
1/4 cup macadamia nuts, chopped

Directions:

Line a baking sheet or cutting board with wax paper or parchment paper.
Chop up the chocolate roughly with a knife if it is in block form. In a medium-sized, microwave safe bowl, melt the chocolate in the microwave. Heat it in 45 or 60-second intervals, stirring between each time to ensure that the chocolate is melting evenly and not burning.
Dip the berries into the chocolate, sprinkle with macadamia nuts, and place on wax paper.
Berries can set at room temperature if you live somewhere cool, otherwise refrigerate them until ready to serve.

http://bakingbites.com/2009/06/milk-chocolate-dipped-strawberries-with-macadamia-nuts/

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"Small kid time"

The time of your life when you were little, growing up

HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE MONTH
        Keiki - kay kee
              Child

It's our Anniversary!

We're celebrating our 11th year of bringing Aloha to you, our wonderful customers, with our great food and friendly service. Please join us on February 7 and 8 and receive a complimentary haupia dessert with every meal purchased as our way of saying Mahalo for your patronage! (available until supply runs out)

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

Original Hawaii 5-0 with
Jack Lord ran 1968-1980

More of ...
50 years ago...

Last month, we looked back at some of the things that were going on fifty years ago - The Beatles just arrived in America, a stamp cost 3 cents and bread was 17 cents.. We came up with more memories to share of our "small kid time"...

Fifty years ago, kids were allowed to be kids. We played in the rich, red dirt - got all dirty and mom gave us heck. You can only play marbles in the dirt, don't you know...We all had a favorite giant marble (or bamboocha) that creamed the competition. Girls jumped rope and played jacks and we all played hop scotch with our lucky "kinney" that we threw as our marker. If you were lucky to have roller skates, you used your school shoes and clamped the skate on to your shoes with a skate key. Our toys were made from junk yard parts or stuff we gathered from the forests to fashion into sling shots or cannons, makeshift bow and arrows or blowing bubbles from papaya stems.

No one locked their doors to their car or to their homes and we never worried about being home alone, even when we were pretty young. (The term "latch key kids" wasn't invented yet.) We used to play for hours without any adult supervision. We learned to be independent and did our best to stay out of trouble or we got creative in not getting caught if we were being bad! Looking back, I often wonder how we survived all the humbug that we used to get into!

The telephone actually had a dial. Most people couldn't afford to have a private line so you shared a "party line" with at least one other family. It was such a pain when you wanted to use the phone and had to wait until the other family was done - no matter how long they took!

A first class stamp meant it went via "Air Mail" - and it was just that - the mail actually was sent off the island on an airplane. Regular mail meant it made its way to it's destination on a boat.

TV's were a new invention and a luxury. Picture was in black and white and the unit was huge. When color TV came along years later, we were told that the color would ruin your eyesight!

We didn't have seat belts or car seats for kids. We often piled into the back of a truck bed with no regard to safety and the littlest kid often got to lay down above the back seat in the car right under the window!

We didn't have to worry so much about dangerous strangers or computer viruses or getting hacked. Spam was something you ate and not what came into your email. Social media meant you actually went and talked face to face with your friends.

Life was much simpler back then.....

- Myron

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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