Meet Porky. He's glad to see you. Anyhow, I was reading offalgood.com and was inspired. Being something of a foodie, I decided to finally take a try at preparing pig head. Rather than do a boiled head as in souse meat, I'm going to give a shot at doing a sous-vide here, like the offalgood.com guy did.

But I know what you want, you want pictures! Here are the pictures of the pig head prep.

Oh, and if you are wondering, no the kids will not be forced to give Porky a taste. Purely voluntary.

I meant to post this like over a year ago, but finally got 'round to it. This lady Clara, I love her videos! Clara is this lady in her 90's who cooks food from the Great Depression era, while describing life at that time.

I figure, hey, the way things are going these days, we might find ourselves with no choice but to survive on hot dogs and water. I tossed her cookbook into my amazon.com cart, so once I rack up $25 of orders, I'll do the free shipping thing and get the cookbook, too. But yeah, do check out her YouTube videos. Classic stuff.

Here it is, at long last. Our inaugural dining experience at the recently opened L&L Hawaiian Barbecue was so worth it. I had curry katsu, as shown here. My loving family chose to partake of the chicken katsu instead. The food was perfect. Perfect. I told the owner as much, too.

The katsu was done just right, with a crispy outside and moist chicken within. The curry? Well, my family will claim it stunk, but then, doesn't good curry smell that way? It was just as one would expect, a classic Hawaiian-style curry plate lunch.

The rice was just as one would wish it to be, two scoop rice. And the mac salad - oh the mac salad - they nailed it. This for me has been the litmus test of so many plate lunch places. Potato salad is not mac salad. Mac-potato salad is not mac salad. Costco mac salad is not mac salad. These folks took the time to prepare a classic Island mac salad.

My only disappointment is that they do not have manapua or malasadas on the menu. The owner told me they only have the "core" menu. I hope they get enough interest to expand and offer up more. I wouldn't have minded a piece of haupia to top off the whole dining experience. Oh, and they serve Pepsi. Bleh. But other than that, it was a dining dream come true.

This is a very slight rework of this pancake recipe over at recipezaar.com.

Ingredients

• 2 eggs
• 1 1/2 cups milk
• 4 tablespoons butter, room temp
• 2 cups flour
• 6 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 teaspoon salt

Directions

1. Beat eggs. They won't get fluffy, but beat 'em anyway.
2. Add milk and room temp butter. You can cut in cold butter if you want, too. During this stage, the mix will get foamy. Excellent!
3. Add dry ingredients and mix well. The resulting mix will not look like typical pancake batter. It will look foamier, and will be a bit stickier.
4. Get your electric griddle up to, oh, 325° or so. I use a nonstick griddle and apply no oil or spray to it.
5. Pour a small ladle of batter on there and start making pancakes.
6. When bubbles appear on surface and begin to break, turn over and cook the other side.

I found the above quantities yield nine nice-sized pancakes. If you visit the pancake recipe at recipezaar.com, you'll note they show this as being "18 small pancakes". They must mean those "dollar pancakes". Oh, as for taste, these are the best pancakes I've ever had. Note, in the original recipe there is some sugar. I left it out and nobody noticed.