Smoked Salmon Timbales ( No Cooking Required)
Gorgeous salmon parcels filled with a soft cheese and crab ( or prawn filling). They look so elegant and the good thing is that they can be made 24 hours ahead making it a perfect solution for plan ahead dinner party. I got this recipe from Recipezaar.
10 min 10 min prep
SERVES 8 , 8 timbales
8 slices smoked salmon
225 g thick cream cheese
100 ml sour cream (or 2 tbsp lemon juice tbsp mayonaise)
2 tablespoons mayonnaise
100 g crabmeat (or 100g choped prawns)
2 teaspoons chopped dill
1/2 teaspoon Dijon mustard
1 teaspoon brandy (optional)
Grease 8 ( 100ml) ramekins with a little oil then line with apiece of plastic wrap, making sure to leave enough overhang.
Place a slice of salmon in each ramekin.
Beat the cream cheese with the sour cream, stir in crab, dill, mustard and season to taste.
Spoon into moulds, fold over overhanging salmon, then fold over the plastic wrap to cover. Chill at least 3 hours. Can be made 24 hours ahead!
May 30, 2009
Aloha Friday Recipe!!
May 13, 2009
Picture of Paradise - Lantern Floating
For more information, go to Lantern Floating Hawaii on the web.
May 12, 2009
Handmade Graduation Gifts
A lot of people are gearing up for graduations right now. I went browsing through Etsy for some unique, handmade graduation gifts and here is what I found.
Posy- A Something Special Apple Cheek Ami Bear Set
by willynillywaterlily
The Scholar's Moss Terranium
by Greenbriar
White Hat with Peach Hair
by BowPorter
5 Travel Size Scrubs - Dorm Room Essentials
by Spa Goddess
Flip Flop Message Me Tile
by Pottery and Pillows
Apr 30, 2009
Blogging Tips
At one time or another, bloggers will be stumped for content and will have nothing interesting, thought provoking or even...blah...to write about. We're lucky to have contributing writers here on our Hawaii WAHMs blog to add fresh content to our blog; however, despite our team effort, we too run into blogger's block.
Internet Marketing Sweetie, Alice Seba, provides us with this sensational list of blogging ideas to keep our minds churning and hopefully our readers coming back. We're happy to share the list with you.
1. Special events - Relate your blog topic to a special event, national day of, or holiday.
2. News - Subscribe to Google news alert on your keywords and write about the latest news in your niche.
3. Book review.
4. Respond to a post on another blog in a niche similar or related to yours.
5. Blog milestone - Write about your blogging milestones, such as publishing your 100th post, getting your 1000th comment….
6. Niche heroes -Blog about a person who made a positive contribution in your niche.
7. Blog memes - Join in blog memes such as “Wordless Wednesday”. There’s at least one for every day of the week!
8. Product review - An excellent way to work in some affiliate links.
9. FAQs in your niche - Write a short Q & A based on FAQs about your niche.
10. Blog comment response - Write a long and expanded response to a comment on your blog.
11. Predict trends - What do you see happening in your niche in a year? 5 years?
12. Historical view - What was your niche in the past? Or what past event influenced your niche?
13. Top tips on a topic of interest to your readers
14. Best of… - A good year ender, make a list of your best posts for the year.
15. Contests - Organize a contest for your blog readers, or make a list of contests your readers can join.
16. What I learned from… a current event, a person you met, or an experience you had.
17. Definitions - Define terms that are commonly used in your niche but a beginner may not understand
18. New products - Not a review but simply an announcement of a new product relevant to your niche. This is another good opportunity to drop in some affiliate links.
19. Biggest problem - Ask your readers what their biggest problem is about your blog topic or niche. They post their answers in the comments section.
20. Biggest problem follow-up - Summarize the comments from #19 in another post.
21. Biggest problem follow-up series - Write a separate blog post tackling each question from #19.
22. Interview somebody knowledgeable in your niche, or has succeeded in it, or is otherwise interesting to your readers.
23. Big list - Compile a big list of various resources, just like this one. The bigger the better!
24. Reader Survey - Put up a brief survey online and blog about the results.
25. Be provocative. Challenge a common belief or widely accepted idea in your niche.
26. New idea - What new idea about your blog topic or niche have you come across lately?
27. YouTube - Embed a funny, moving or insightful video on YouTube. You can even have a “video day” once a week.
28. YouTube version 2 - Make YOUR own YouTube video. Publish it on YouTube then embed on your blog. This way, you can attract traffic from YouTube to your blog.
29. Freebie - Scour the ‘net for freebies that your readers will love. Or create a freebie of your own, such as a checklist or special report.
30. Personal story - Use a personal story to illustrate an important concept or principle in your niche.
31. Free to publish articles - Check out relevant articles in article directories such as Ezine Articles… but don’t publish them entirely on your blog. Instead, use an article or a group of articles as your take-off point for a blog post, or several.
32. Link love - This is a post with links to other blogs. Some bloggers set aside one day a week to publish a list of the best blog posts on their topic.
33. Photo - A picture is worth thousand words, right? Search Flickr for creative commons pictures that your readers will like.
34. Hot topics - Look at Digg for hot topics in your niche
35. Pros and cons - Examine what’s good and bad about something related to your blog topic
36. Respond to relevant questions you find in Ask.com
37. Guest post - Invite another blogger to write a guest post for your blog
38. Reader’s post - Invite blog subscribers to submit an article or post to be published on the blog
39. Inspirational post - Write a motivational post for your readers.
40. Update an old post with fresh ideas, new learnings and current research findings.
41. Beginner’s guide - What do beginners in your niche struggle with? Write a post to guide them through it.
42. Best list - Patterned after “best dressed lists” make a list of the best ___ in your niche.
43. Worst list - Make your version of the “worst dressed list” for your niche.
44. New uses for - Think of new ways your readers can use gadgets and other stuff.
45. Write about a live event that you attended and what you learned from it.
46. Bribe post - Bribe your readers with a freebie in exchange for subscribing to your newsletter or RSS feed.
47. Around the world - Compare how people in different countries do something related to your niche.
48. Seasonal - Relate the month or season to your blog topic.
49. Blog carnival - Join or host a blog carnival, where several publish posts about the same topic on the same day.
50. Host a virtual “conference” on your blog - Invite “speakers” to publish their post on a specified date and time. Q&A happens in the comments section.
Because you may spend a lot of time on your blog, it would be nice to earn some money from your work. Here is a product link that might help you. Click here! for more information.Apr 29, 2009
Picture of Paradise - May Day
Kona Coffee Lei
photo source: ardie96750
May Day is Lei Day in Hawaii and here are ways to celebrate:
- 2009 Lei Day Festival with the Royal Hawaiian Band Concert, Lei Queen and Court, Lei Exhibit and more at the Kapiolani Park Bandstand, May 1, 2009. A schedule of the festivities here.
- Lei Making Schedule at Community Parks...you may still be able to make it to a class or get more information on future classes.
- Lei Making Methods
