I have fallen in love with butter mochi. It’s a Hawaiian dessert that uses glutinous rice flour (the flour made from sticky rice) to create a dessert that’s crispy on the outside and soft and gooey in the middle. I love it so much that this isn’t my first mochi post – I made Raspberry…
Category: Oceania
A Vegetarian Loco Moco (Hawaiian Plate Lunch)
How’s everyone doing? It’s safe to say that wherever you are, it’s been a rough week. And although I wrote about coronavirus last week, I’m not going to turn this into a corona-chronicle (the world has enough of those). No, I’m going to focus on what I do best…making food. After all, it’s a great…
Raspberry Butter Mochi (and Cake Scaling 101!)
Have you ever had butter mochi? I went the first 30 years of my life without it, sadly, until my first visit to Hawaii. It was a warm Pacific morning and we were driving down the highway when suddenly my boyfriend spotted a roadside mochi stand on the other side of the road. Screeching to…
Tofu “Spam” Musubi
When my boyfriend’s 40th birthday was coming up, I knew I had to do something special. He’s from Hawaii and shared with me that his favorite food of all time was Spam musubi. Spam musubi is a Hawaii staple – a bed of sushi rice topped with fried spam, flavored with teriyaki sauce and Japanese…
Marissa Makes Food 