Speaking of grandfathers, Dallas’s dad and my dad both sent us the link to a story in The Garden Island News, the newspaper of Kaua’i. The article featured Deputy Sheriff William Olin Crowell in an “Island History” feature. My dad sent the link and asked me, “Is this a relative of Dallas’s?” The answer, I found out, is that William Crowell is Dallas’s great grandfather.
It is interesting to note that the photo included with the story is actually Dallas’s great grandfather’s high school graduating class. William Crowell was part of the first graduating class from Kamehameha Schools in 1891. The school highly prefers students with Native Hawaiian ancestry. Most of Dallas’s family has attended Kamehamhea for many generations, going back to when the school was founded, as shown here.
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February 12th, 2010 · 2 Comments
Whenever we go back to Kauai Dallas’s Aunty Nancy makes Dallas’s favorite meal for him and sends him home to wherever we’re staying with a ton of leftovers for the trip. Aunty Nancy is Portuguese and the dish she makes is like a beef pot roast, but really vinegar-y and served with rice, of course. I don’t know what this is really called, but we have always called it Portuguese Vinegar Meat and Dallas loooves it.
A few months ago Dallas was in Washington DC for work. Aunty Nancy’s oldest daughter Tandy lives there with her husband Chris. They just had their first baby, Kai (photo to the right!!!), and Aunty Nancy has been staying with them to help out. They all spent a couple days together and somehow Dallas got Aunty Nancy to give up the Portuguese meat recipe!
Dallas came home and immediately had to try his hand at it. It turned out good.. maybe a little too much vinegar for my liking, but very good. I think we have a few tweaks to work out before it’s up to Aunty Nancy’s standard. I’m sure we’ll be making this many many times until we get it exactly right! We also thought about trying to adapt it for the slow cooker.
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January 24th, 2010 · 2 Comments
A couple times a year I get a happy shipment like this:
I buy either Lion Coffee or Hawaiian Isles Coffee.
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