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    I don't know if this is authentic Hawaiian but it's delicious.
    
    			Waikiki Meatballs
    
    Mix thoroughly:
    
    1 1/2 lbs ground beef		1 1/2 tsp salt
    1/3 cup minced onion                1/4 tsp ginger
    2/3 cup cracker crumbs              1/4 cup water  
    1 egg                                            
    
    Shape mixture into balls. Melt 1 tablespoon shortening in large
    skillet. Brown and cook meatballs. Remove from skillet, keep warm. 
    Leave fat in skillet.                                        
    
    Mix in seperate bowl and stir until smooth:
    
    2 tbsp. cornstarch
    1/2 cup brown sugar
    Pineapple syrup (from 13 1/2 oz can of pineapple to be used later)
    1/3 cup vinegar
    1 tbsp soy sauce     
    
    Pour into skillet. Cook over medium heat stirring constantly until
    thick and boiling. Boil and stir 1 minute. 
    
    Add to skillet:
    
    Meatballs
    13 1/2 oz can pineapple tidbits
    1/3 cup chopped green peppers
    
    Heat through. Serve on brown rice. Serves 4.
    
               

   A question:  
        Because of the large variety of ethnic groups in Hawaii today,
    "Hawaiian food" has become a blend of Japanese, Chinese, Portugese,
    Philipino, Caucasian, Korean, etc.  Is this what you're looking
    for, or do you want some true Hawaiian recipes (Eg. poi, lomi salmon,
    lau lau, etc)?
    
    Cherry
    

At the top of the list, try Baked Ham Hawaiian, a standard baked ham with 
a pineapple glaze.  Sure it's not authentic, but it will do, unless you want
to dig a pit, and wrap a pig in leaves and roast it.

Another thing that was omnipresent when I was in Hawaii was fruit salad, 
featuring ... Pineapple!  Any combination of tropical fruits would do, for 
example, mango, papaya, guava, passion fruit, etc.  

Of course when I was there, EVERYTHING came with pineapple, except the poi.
If you can't find taro to make authentic poi, try mixing flour and water with
2 drops of every available food coloring to give a sort of rainbow brown effect.

    Hi,
    
    I don't know if this is Hawaiian or Californian, but a chicken and
    papaya salad is always good and tropical.  Just cube poached or grilled
    chicken breast toss in a mixed green salad add cubed papaya, pinapple,
    grapes maybe and toss with a papaya-seed dressing or a honey-dijon(sp?)
    mustard dressing.
    
    There is a recipe for a papaya-seed dressing in the August issue of
    Gourmet, the sugar and spice section, or the one where people submit
    their own recipes.
    
    If you want to make a dessert try a tapioca and coconut pudding, my
    personal favorite.  Or a mango souffle, passion-fruit souffle, or a
    tropical fruit flan.  
    
    ida

    TAKE A WHOLE PINEAPPLE AND QUARTER IT LENGTHWISE.  YOU WILL HAVE FOUR
    PIECES THAT LOOK LIKE
                 -------------------------
                 \                        /
    		  \                      /
    		   \                    /
    		    \__________________/
    
    TAKE A SHARP KNIFE AND CUT UNDER THE "MEAT" LENGTHWISE. THEN CUT INTO
    ABOUT 1/2" WIDE PIECES.  STICK A CHERRY ON A COCKTAIL TOOTHPICK AND
    STICK INTO PIECE OF PINEAPPLE.  VERY COLORFUL AND VERY PRETTY.  SERVE
    COOL   NOT TOO HEAVY AND GOOD FOR YOU! FINISHED PRODUCT WILL LOOK LIKE:
                  O   O    O    O    O   O     --CHERRIES W TOOTHPICK
    		----------------------------
    		\   |    |    |    |    |  /   --PINEAPPLE SLICES
    		 \  |    |    |    |    | /
    		  \ |    |    |    |    |/
    		   \|    |    |    |    /
    		    \------------------/
    
                                                                 

    
                          Hawaiian Chicken
                          ----------------
    
      I don't know how many people you are feeding but as a basic,
    cut up six to seven chicken breast into good portion squares.
    And take the skin off and fry in a skillet don't add any grease
    let the chicken cook in its own fat. Cook till it brown, if you
    use a electric skillet turn the temp. to 400 degrees. Brown a 
    taste then add a cut up whole onion, bell pepper,and carrots.
     Then add whole cherries and sliced pineapple. This is quick and
    simple then the final touch. Mix the pineapple juice with a cup
    of pancake syrup and mix then add the the skillet. and let it 
    simmer. You could also add instead of syrup buy some chun-king
    sweet and sour sauce its the same just reddish in color.
    
                                      Mahalo,

    I have the 'Entertaining' book at home, by Martha Stewart, that has a
    section on a Hawaiin Luau.  If you would like, I will bring it in with
    me tomorrow and post the menu, and any recipes that are there.
    
    Marilyn
    

    I made this hawaiian truffle...
    
    I used the premise of the heathbar truffle but changed the
    ingredients...
    
    1 white cake (baked)
    1 can crushed pineapple (drained)
    cool whip
    shredded coconut
    rum
    chopped nuts
    
    
    cut cake into pieces and take a huge truffle bowl (or just a 
    bowl) and begin layering each of the ingredients...sprinkling
    liberablly or not so liberally with rum.  when finished top
    with cool whip, nuts, coconuts and some pineapple .
    

    I forgot one other ingredient....vanilla pudding!
    
    mix it up and add it in the layers also!
    
    

    Have the favors be jordan almonds tied to a lei, (they are
    plastic, and inexpensive.  You can use netting and matching
    ribbons to tie them on) so that everyone can wear it during 
    the shower.  They are available at many of the party goods 
    stores, and come in terrific colors.
    
    You could do a Luau i.e. serve buffet style a Roast Pork all
    decorated up on a fancy platter with flowers & green leaves
    & fruits, Decorate the table with fancy carved watermelon and
    cantalopes, and don't forget the coconuts! :-) (skip the poi,
    tho', yuck! :-))  You can get paper streamers that are flower
    garlands, and maybe even rent a waterfall for a centerpiece
    that can have a tropical fruit punch/wine cooler in it with
    plastic flowers floating around. (Most party places had these
    for rent when I did a shower for a friend).
                
    Get some Don Ho tapes ("Tiny Bubbles......" :-)) for backround
    music.  Ask all attending to wrap the gifts in a Hawaiian theme
    to add to the color and excitement.....
                                               
    Aloha!!!!
    
    HRH

    alos...I make thewse for my luaus...
    remember the flowers kids make when they were little...out of
    tissues!
    
    Well I would buy the big sheets of wrapping tissue in bright
    colors and make large ones...like the ones you get at amusement
    parks and put them in a large vase with long stems!  if you 
    want attach jordan almonds to the stems or in the middle to 
    look like the seeds!
    
    anna
    

serve tropical fruit kabobs as snacks:

	on bamboo skewers, layer pineapple chunks, papaya chunks,
	whole strawberries, peeled kiwi fruit

serve these with coconut cake and a nice fruit punch.  A waterfall punch
bowl is perfect (you can rent one).  If you don't want to bother with a
cake, call a local bakery and get them to bake up some nice macaroons for
you.

Use tropical flowers (silk is fine) as the centerpiece, and decorate with
lots of bright colors...perhaps a few yards of a traditional tropical print
fabric as a table cloth on which to place the presents?

    If your budget will run to flowers, most florists can readily
    obtain beautiful stalks of pink or white ginger, huge ti leaves,
    red, pink or white anthurium, birds of paradise, oncidium and
    other orchids.  My sister, a florist on the Cape, did a wedding
    reception in a Hawaiian theme and the arrangements were quite
    unbelievably gorgeous.  An added benefit, most of those
    flowers are very long-lived - like two weeks or more.  It
    doesn't take many flowers either, because they are so striking.
    Have the florist use lots of tropical leaves (which come in green,
    reddish green, yellowish green, etc.) and accent the arrangement(s)
    with a stalk or two of flowers.
    
    Laura

    I brought in my Martha Stewart book today and I'm posting the menu.
    
    Let me know if you want any of the recipes:
    
                      
    
                            HAWAIIAN LUAU FOR TWENTY
    
    
    Roast Suckling Pig with Steamed Rice
    Marianted Scallops
    Salmon Poupous
    Mock Drumsticks
    Chicken Wings with Bananas
    Coconut Shrimp
    Rumaki (have made this dozens of times....it is superb!)
    Barbecued Clams
    Dungeness Crab
    Gingered Flank Steak Sates
    Pineapple with Star Fruit
    Tropical Fruit Salad
    Watermelon (cut out beautifully)
    Tropical Drinks
    
    She suggests decorating with Houseplants, a couple of Orchids dime-store 
    leis, grass-skirts, Hawaiian music perhaps even a hula dancer.  To serve 
    the drinks you might use coconuts halved with a saw, or heavy balloon 
    goblets.  Serve as buffet style.  
    
    Hawaiian cuisine is based with the flavors of the East (ginger, curry, 
    soy) and the tropics (lime, coconut, pineapple).  Serve food on lotus 
    plates (local flea markets/yard sales/antique places) and big clam
    shells (can be found in party stores).  Use melon colored napkins.
    Her party was held inside (in November) but if held outside perhaps
    Japanese lanterns - or little white lights (from the Christmas tree
    attached to your shrubbery) would be pretty.  
    
    She attempted to create a feeling of carefree, sunstruck, island fun.
    
    Hope this helps...
    
    Marilyn
    

    I make my rumakis a little differently from .14's way ...
    
    Instead of a scallop, I take a mushroom crown (canned) and half
    of a water chestnut (canned), put them together (flat sides
    together), and wrap with a half-strip of bacon and broil until done.
    
    They're usually gobbled up long before they have a chance to cool
    down. :-)

    My recipe book is in the car.  Going out at lunchtime and will post
    after I get back (this afternoon).
    
    Her recipe for Rumaki is Chicken Livers wrapped in bacon - in a
    Japanese/oriental sauce.  Out of this world - even liver haters
    have eaten this and become fans of the stuff.
    
    

    Other variations for Rumaki include pineapple or date in place of
    the liver.  These are both excellent and would seem appropriate
    in this setting.

    Di