Entries Tagged as 'portuguese'

Portuguese Vinegar Meat

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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Kepaniwai Park and Heritage Gardens

July 25th, 2009 · No Comments

After checking out Iao Valley, we drove down the road and went to Kepaniwai Park’s Heritage Gardens. If you have a good memory you remember in my last post that the Battle of Kepaniawai was a bloody mess and there were so many dead bodies that the Iao Stream got all blocked up. Kepaniawai means “damming of the waters.” You’d never know that this was such a violent area in the past, though. Now it’s a beautiful, peaceful park that showcases Maui’s diverse heritage with ethnic houses and gardens representing the Hawaiian, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, Caucasian and Filipino cultures.

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Richard Tongg designed the park in 1952. Donna, Dustin, Dallas and I spent some time just walking around the park, through the banyans, checking out all the different statues and houses.

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At some point we started standing in front of houses that represented our ethnicities. For example, here are Donna, Dustin and Dallas all in front of a thatched-roof Hawaiian hale (meeting house) because they are each part Hawaiian.

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Here’s a Caucasian New England “Salt Box” house.

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And here is me in front of the Caucasian New England “Salt Box” house.

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Dallas is half Korean.

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I guess these Lions were part of the Korean garden. Donna tried to set it up so we both stood by the lions and faced our heads like they were, but Dallas refused to cooperate.

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Dallas, Donna and Dustin (missing!) are all part Japanese.

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No one posed by the Chinese house, but Dustin should have.

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Found this guy in the bamboo forest behind the Chinese house.

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And then here’s a Filipino house.

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None of us are Filipino.

And finally, a Portuguese villa.

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Donna might be a little Portuguese. I can’t remember. And she didn’t do her posing, so maybe not.

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Pork Cheese

July 18th, 2003 · 2 Comments

My niece, Stephanie, is 7 years old and this summer she is taking German classes. Last summer she took Spanish classes. I spoke with her on the phone the other night and part of our conversation went something like this:

Steph: “I could learn all of the languages in the world and then when I met someone they would never know what language I was born speaking!”
Me: “Yeh, you could learn Spanish, German, French, Chinese, Portuguese, ”
Steph: “PORK CHEESE? What language is that!??!”

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