Must Have | Higashimaru Chicken Seasoning

I love this stuff!

Rather than figure out how to read Japanese, it's probably easier to just memorize the look of the box. If you live in a city, you can probably pick it up at your local Japanese grocers. In LA and Chicago, Mitsuwa has it. In Indy, One World Market has it. Here it is on Super-mom.jp, if you're in NYC, but Sunrise Mart may have it.

Recipe | Joce's Green Juice

I try to add more greens into my diet. Juicing in one of my favorite ways of doing so. I made a large serving of this super green juice. The taste is mildly sweet and fresh. I try to juice 2-3x a week (the worst part of juicing is the machine clean up).

Yo Mama | Macaroni & Cheese

I love my mom and grandma's macaroni and cheese, and most everyone I know does too. In high school, I once tried to make myself and it came out horrible! I've never made it again for fear of what would come out of the oven. I figured it's time to try again. However, this time I did it under my mother's supervision. I apologize for my worse-than-usual picture quality, I only had my camera phone when I was in LA. It may not look like here, but you'll want to make a pan of it everyday if you can.

Food Trend & Review | Coconut Water

Coconut water hype?  Coconut water is known to be super nutrient rich and a good source of hydration. Coconut water is the liquid found inside a young coconut before it matures. As the coconut matures, the water turns into the solid white flesh found inside.

Food Fact | Honey

If you really sit down and think about what honey is - bee barf - you probably wouldn't eat it. However, like most other animal products we consume, we put the production process in the back of our minds and eat up.

Trippin | Hawaiian Cuisine

Just got back a few weeks from my first trip to Hawaii. We flew to Oahu, and stayed in Waikiki.

I was hoping for lots of fresh seafood and Hawaiian cuisine. What I got was pancakes and processed meat for days. Ham, bacon, Portuguese sausage, spam... with eggs and rice, or even better all together in fried rice.  Many of the tourists flocked to Egg 'N things for large portions and macadamia nut pancakes, or to Duke's for some "Hawaiian" inspired food. From what I noticed, locals did eat a lot of Poke, which was always fresh and pretty good. We also had shrimp scampi and shaved ice at the popular spots in North Shore, still a bit underwhelming considering all the hype. Pictured above is a plate from a Hawaiian Luau dinner show; fried chicken thighs, Mahi-Mahi in cream sauce, sweet bread, salad, mac salad, pasta salad, rice, kalua pork and poi.

Restaurant Replica | Chicken Tikka Masala

Dish | Chicken Tikka Masala

Restaurant | Indian lunch buffet

Location | Anywhere, USA

The Old Man loves chicken tikka masala, but my dilemma for this post was deciding between just using a jar of tikka masala paste and doing it from scratch. I decided it's recipe and not a product review, so I'll make my own masala because I was recently a gifted a big jar of ground cumin.

Product Review | Sambazon Smoothie Pack

Have you tried an Açaí bowl or smoothie yet?  I like to make smoothies for breakfast a few times a week, and recently bought the Sambazon Smoothie Packs. You can find it in the freezer section. It comes with 4 packs of açaí puree for around $6.