Happy New Year!

2011 has come and gone. Time for a New Year! I wish you all the very best and know that this year holds some exciting changes ahead. I hope each of you has a year full of joy and love. It HAS to be better than 2011!

I am starting a new blog, just on food this year and hope it will become the basis for a book. It is called The Sassy Spoon. Starting this week I will be sharing recipes and food photos there. Come on over for a visit and follow the blog. It is hosted by Wordpress which I find to be a great format for blogging. I will still be posting here about life and food here in Hawaii and some posts may cross over.

Aloha from Hilo Bay.

Chinese New Year in Hilo

  

 Yesterday, Hilo had it's Annual Chinese New Year Festival. Here are some pictures from the event. you can see more from past events here: Chinese Film Fest and here: Chinese New Year 2009 And click the following link if you want to learn about Portuguese Bean Soup, which is interestingly the hit of every Chinese New Year Festival in Hilo!

Portuguese Bean Soup!

 

Puppets!

Shave Ice Ice Baby!

Firecrackers ready to go off...

Wordless Wednesday Random Fireworks

Friday and Saturday nights our neighbor, Tim DeLozier provided Pauka'a with a spectacular professional fireworks display even more fantastic than we get here on the 4th of July!