Got five bucks? Send it here. I’ll send you five recipes. Your money goes to the Honolulu Star-Advertiser’s Good Neighbor Fund to support families in need. Everybody wins.
This “By Request” Thanksgiving tradition has merged cooking with charity for nine years now, earning more than $10,000 for the newspaper’s annual holiday fund. The recipes are my favorites that have run in this column over the year.
To order: Send $5 for each set of recipes, along with a self-addressed, stamped, legal-size (4-by-9-inch) envelope for each set ordered (if you want five sets, send $25 and five envelopes). You can make an extra donation of any amount, but please be clear about how many sets of recipes you want and how much is a pure donation. Make checks payable to the Good Neighbor Fund.
Mail orders to “By Request” Top Recipes, Honolulu Star-Advertiser, 7 Waterfront Plaza, Suite 210, Honolulu, HI 96813. Deadline to order is Dec. 28.
This is an all-or-nothing offer, so we can’t send you just one recipe out of the set. And it’s strictly snail mail; no fax, phone or email orders.
This year’s recipes:
Peanut Butter Brownies aka Peanut Butter Chews
This recipe actually ran at the tail end of 2014 and missed last year’s Top 5 list. But it’s one of my all-time favorites, so I’m making an exception to include it this year. This is a Hahaione Elementary School cafeteria recipe dating to the 1970s, when Kathie Young, a Hahaione mom, secured it.
School-Kine Portuguese Sweet Rolls
From Kaiser High School cafeteria manager Darryl Okamura comes a unique recipe for slightly lemony rolls that date to his days at Iliahi Elementary School. It’s not complicated and so would make a good introduction for someone starting out in yeast baking.
Chicken Alice’s Wings
Alice Yang, creator and purveyor of Korean-style chicken wings that are legendary among wing nuts of a certain age, died Oct. 3. Her wings were the No. 1 request made to this column for years until she gave me the recipe in 2005. I reprinted it after her death and include it as part of this benefit offer because I think she would’ve liked that.
Fish Cake Inarizushi
Chinese-style fish paste is a humble, underappreciated ingredient that offers many opportunities for easy, tasty okazuya-type meals. This one combines homemade fishcake steamed in a cone sushi wrapper. Delicious.
Roast Pork a la Rainbow Drive-In
This plate-lunch special is served under the Rainbow three days a week, selling out at least two hours before closing each time. Rainbow guards the exact formula (especially for the gravy) but did provide a reasonable facsimile that produces a fork-tender, local-style pork roast.