MY CUISINE AT 15 CRAIGSIDE

The UK went a different way on vaccinations.  They chose to inoculate as many people as possible rather than first immunize an individual with both shots, as the U.S. is doing for the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines.  The point is that you do gain, perhaps, 10 points in protection with both shots.  However, even one makes a big difference in affecting the community, and, further, this delay for the second injection seems to be essentially okay.  The graphic to the right from the New York Times.

By now anyone who regularly reads this blog knows that I live in a seniors' community called 15 Craigside.  Today, I will clear my desktop by transferring these food photos into this posting.

On Wednesday I had an international St. Pat's meal.  My green life began the day by walking on the Ala Wai Golf Course.  Did well, and my pulse rate remained below 100 pulses/minute because a group ahead of us played reasonably slowly. I might mention that I've seen hundreds of pigeons over the years, and, amazingly enough, saw my first Blue-bar Pigeon on this course.

On my way home I dropped by Fujioka's and asked, what is the best Irish alcoholic beverage.  Without hesitation, he said Redbreast.  Surely enough, this source picked Redbreast as #1 overall.  Nowhere on the list was Jameson or Bushmills.  The price for the 12 year old single pot still Irish whiskey ranged from less than $50 in Maine to $80 in Florida.  I paid $67.  For three times the cost of a Jameson, I question the cost, or, more probably, can't appreciate the superiority.  I also picked up a Baileys Irish Cream from Dublin.  This is reported to be the original Irish cream, invented by Gilbeys in 1971.

I had the BIC over ice when I took a green bath:

As I just had a corned beef and cabbage dinner to prepare for St. Pat's Day, I prepared an international meal of American steak and Japanese chutoro sashimi / shiitake mushrooms, and added some green mint jelly and sliced truffles:

The wine, Redbreast, beer and St. Patrick international cuisine:

Another day I had the following, beginning with breakfast, a Korean seaweed soup lunch and assorted Oriental dishes for dinner, with the rest of the most popular drink in the world, Jinro Soju :

With a Stanford Chardonnay, I had prosciutto, foie gras pate', blue cheese croissant, ham and a fancy salad of endive, radicchio, sea asparagus, avocado and sweet onion:

At an upscale Safeway located on Beretania Avenue, I saw this display of American Wagyu Beef.  So I picked up a piece and had it with some hirame sashimi:

Different from the Japanese version, okay, but not the same.  Of course, the U.S. wagyu costs one-fourth the Japanese cut.

Then I actually built a meal around boiled peanuts supplied by a friend, rest of the foie gras pate', salad and croissant, accompanied by a Pence Chardonnay and beer:

Soba and sashimi:

Two noodles lunch:

Finally, a luau for dinner last night.  I made my own poke using blue-fin tuna cut in the shape of sashimi as opposed to those cubes, and adding the poke mix (seaweed, kukui nut, also known as candlenut, and salt), kazunoko (salted herring eggs), onions, sea asparagus and chili water:

I also enhanced the lomi-salmon:

My Hawaiian feast with lau lau, chicken longrice, lomi, poke, rice and various drinks:

I'm afraid I gained a couple of pounds this week.  Here is the current state of my blooming Honohono Orchids. 

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