Tostones

Ingredients: 

Prep for deep frying
1 plantain per person
garlic or adobo to taste


Directions:

Preheat oil.  Skin and slice plantains about 3/4 inch thick.  Fry until outer edge crisps a little, take plantains out and smash.  Put them back in fryer for another 2 minutes.

Drain grease, season and enjoy!  Some people also choose to dip these in ketchup.

Peach Cobbler

Ingredients: 

1 stick butter
4 cups drained peaches
2 cups self rising flour
1 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup ground flaxseed or chia seed
1/4 tsp ginger
1/4 tsp cinnamon
1/4 tsp nutmeg
1/4 tsp allspice
2 cups milk or coconut milk



Directions: 

Preheat oven to 350.  Put stick of butter in a 9 x 13 baking dish and put in oven to melt.
Drain peaches. In a large mixing bowl, mix all other ingredients.
Pour peaches over melted butter, then pour batter over peaches.
Bake for 25 minutes.  Serve a la carte or with vanilla ice cream.

Mango Salsa

Ingredients:

finger bananas
1 whole diced mango
1/4 cup diced cilantro
3 cups diced tomato
2 cups colorful diced bell peppers
lemon zest to taste


Directions:

Mix ingredients and enjoy on your favorite chips.

Honey Radish Sauce

Ingredients:

4 cups mayo
2/3 cup honey
1/4 cup horseradish
1 tsp valencia peel



Directions: 

Mix ingredients and enjoy on your favorite sandwiches.

Onion Ring Dip

Ingredients: 

4 cups mayo
1/2 cup yellow mustard
2/3 cup ketchup
3/4 cup hot sauce
1 tbsp horseradish
1/4 cup cayenne pepper



Directions:

Mix ingredients and use on your onion rings or chicken fingers.

Cranberry Horseradish Mustard

Ingredients:

2 tbsp horseradish
14 oz cranberry sauce
1 tbsp mustard powder
2 tbsp honey


Directions: 

Mix ingredients and enjoy on a turkey sub.

Peppercorn Horseradish Sauce

Ingredients:

4 cups mayo
1/4 cup horseradish
1/4 tsp sugar
1/4 tsp freshly ground pepper


Directions:

Mix ingredients and use on your favorite sandwiches and subs.

Dedications

All recipes here are dedicated

to our ancestors

and

specifically 

to note:

Marion J Maui

1926-2004

From whom I've learned from.

Nana, you'll always be the best cook in my book!

I love you Nanny.

Joseph P Zimmerman

1917-1995

For giving me all the good plantation recipes.  You will always be my number one guy! 

I love you Pop-Pop.

Tukyan Gratitude

We'd like to thank God first and foremost, for giving us life and ambition.

In a physical world, we are grateful for our multicultural heritage and unorthodox childhoods.  That certainly made a difference on the plate.

Those of Honorable Mention here are:

Marion Joan Maui

Katherine Grabski

William Chireno

Kalani Butch Kay

Leandro Rosado

Neyda Padua

Wendy & Sekela Mungai

Remington Steel

Xuan Son Ho

Hamid Hashishimi

Kyung Chi

and countless others for sharing their cultural foods with us!

Tukyan Delight

We are pleased to share with you a compilation of our favorite family recipes. Over the course of time, recipes may be pulled from the site due to the factual light that has been coming out about our food.  While we know that not everything on our menu will be the best health food out there, we surely do not want to steer you into an early grave.  We actually care about you and will include valuable health information with recipes when we find new information. 

Our family at Tukyan Delight are pleased to share with you some of our favorite recipes.  Every recipe in this book has been inspired by something we've tasted or an utter creation off the top of our imaginations.  Some recipes were developed within an impoverished household, and they turned out to be keepers! Every recipe is culturally crafty so you will find a wide variety of flavors in this blog.

Each selection will either carry notable facts about the dish, or the history behind it.  We truly hope that you enjoy this blog.