After my first year of college at the ripe age of 17, my friends convinced me to stop and smell the hibiscus, After discovering another drunken note scrawled across my pink notepad with a map that Dora the Explorer would have had better luck deciphering. I decided to take the leap...I packed a tiny bag with tiny dresses, tiny bikinis, a beauty bag, and left for the airport with the ticket he left taped to his pink Dora map. My boyfriend left the day before and according to the note I was under the impression he needed me to bring seven pounds of pineapple and his dog, Rubix. Rubix was not Russian or cube shaped... He was just named after my boyfriend's conspiracy theory involving the Rubic's cube which would later end our relationship. I felt sorry for Rubix so I brought him along but I couldn't justify the pineapple.
Anyway, we stayed in Kihei on Maui for a few days at his dad's palatial estate where we met up with his deadbeat dad every year only to remember how much he didn't like the guy. Regardless of being young and ridiculous or in his dad's case, old and ridiculous... Hawaii is the very essence of peace and you can't help but feel tranquility coursing through your veins. The luaus, the volcanoes, the surfing... everything was perfect but there was one thing that made the trip complete, time and time again... Puaa Aoao & Huala Kakika... Hawaiian Spareribs...
The ingredients:
4 lbs. spareribs
3/4 cup cornstarch
1/4 cup molasses
1/4 cup soy sauce
1/2 cup sugar
3/4 cup vinegar
3/4 cup water
3/4 cup pineapple juice
4 oz. pineapple chunks
2 chopped green peppers
Directions:
Cut ribsinto small pieces. Brown in heavy skillet. Combine cornstarch, molasses, and soy sauce to form a oaste. Spread paste on both sidesof ribs and rebrown quickly in the hot fat. Combine sugar, vinegar, water, pineapple juice. Heat in a saucepan over low flame until sugar dissolves. Pour over ribs. Cover amd simmer 25-30 minutes. Chop peppers into cubes. Add peppers and pineapplechunks to ribs. Simmer 8 minutes longer. Serves 8.
Anyway, we stayed in Kihei on Maui for a few days at his dad's palatial estate where we met up with his deadbeat dad every year only to remember how much he didn't like the guy. Regardless of being young and ridiculous or in his dad's case, old and ridiculous... Hawaii is the very essence of peace and you can't help but feel tranquility coursing through your veins. The luaus, the volcanoes, the surfing... everything was perfect but there was one thing that made the trip complete, time and time again... Puaa Aoao & Huala Kakika... Hawaiian Spareribs...
The ingredients:
4 lbs. spareribs
3/4 cup cornstarch
1/4 cup molasses
1/4 cup soy sauce
1/2 cup sugar
3/4 cup vinegar
3/4 cup water
3/4 cup pineapple juice
4 oz. pineapple chunks
2 chopped green peppers
Directions:
Cut ribsinto small pieces. Brown in heavy skillet. Combine cornstarch, molasses, and soy sauce to form a oaste. Spread paste on both sidesof ribs and rebrown quickly in the hot fat. Combine sugar, vinegar, water, pineapple juice. Heat in a saucepan over low flame until sugar dissolves. Pour over ribs. Cover amd simmer 25-30 minutes. Chop peppers into cubes. Add peppers and pineapplechunks to ribs. Simmer 8 minutes longer. Serves 8.
