Sacred Holy Orange Rolls

Sacred Holy Orange Rolls:

From a well-used notecard

2 Cups milk

1/2 cups shortening (yikes! It was good with butter)

1/4 cup sugar

4 tablespoons yeast

1/4 cup lukewarm water

1/4 tsp sugar

3 beaten eggs

2 teaspoons salt

5 3/4 cups flour

 1 grated orange rind

1/2 cup sugar

1/2 cup butter

 1/4 cup melted butter for the tops

 Here's the instructions as they're written in my mom's handwriting:

"Melt shortening, sugar and milk (scalded)-- cool, soak yeast in water and sugar-- combine milk yeast eggs in big bowl-- stir in salt and 4 cups flour. Beat until smooth and glossy. Add rest of flour, mix well. Cover and let double [about 45 minutes] (quite sticky)-- punch down-- roll out to 1/3 inch rectangle (let the rectangle rest if it won't roll out again)."

 Combine the orange rind, 1/2 cup sugar and butter. Spread orange rind mixture on rectangle.

Roll the rectangle up. Cut rolled dough into 3/4 inch slices, and twist them into knots or blobs or bows. Place them in greased muffin tins or on a greased sheet, and let them rise for half an hour. Drizzle melted butter over the top. Bake at 375 for about 25 minutes.

Haupia Pops

So at costco, the source of all light and goodness on our island, you can buy hefty bags of instant haupia mix. The instructions start, "boil 24 cups of water. Add entire bag of haupia mix."
It makes great, springy, coconutty haupia pudding heaven. Sprinkle some toasted coconut on top as its setting in the pan-- tres ono.
And also--
pour the still-warm and running mix into popsicle mold and freeze 'em-- they make drip-free haupia ice cream pops! Hooray!

Po' man's lazy garden gumbo

So, just ignore that it's been Many Moons since my last post.

From our garden I picked a handful of okra and a mess of collards and brought it in to stew up. In spite of having no ingredients, this turned out tasty enough to write down for later:

Brown in a soup pot:
1.5 tbsp oil or butter
1.5 tbsp flour
salt and pepper
add chopped onion and chopped okra-- brown a bit
add a can of stewed tomatoes and 2 c. of broth
simmer for a bit, then add the collards and some herbs if you've got em.
Voila! TASTY!
I made a pot of Quinoa to go with-- add enough olive oil and salt and that stuff is quite tasty!