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Recipes with Aloha
Favorites from employees of Aloha Airlines

SMOKED GOUDA AND CARAMELIZED ONION QUESADILLAS
CHARLOTTE LEE (HUMAN RESOURCES)

Photo: Darrell Ishii; Food Stylist: Paul Rosenthal

Tbsp. butter
1 onion, thinly sliced
1 Tbsp. golden brown sugar
1⁄4 tsp. white wine vinegar
11⁄2 cup grated smoked
gouda cheese
4 10-inch-diameter flour tortillas
6 slices bacon, cooked crisp and crumbled
2 Tbsp. butter, melted



Melt 2 Tbsp. butter; add onion, sugar and vinegar. Sauté until onion is golden brown, stirring frequently (about 25 minutes). Remove from heat and cool to room temperature. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Sprinkle cheese over half of each tortilla, dividing equally. Sprinkle bacon and onion mix over cheese. Fold other half of each tortilla over cheese mixture and brush with melted butter.

Place skillet over medium-high heat. Cook quesadillas just until brown spots appear on tortillas, about one-and-a-half minutes each side. Transfer tortillas to baking sheet and bake until golden and cheese melts, about five minutes. Cut each tortilla into four triangles. Serve hot.


PUTO—STEAMED CAKES
LORRAINE TEIXEIRA (HONOLULU CARGO)

In a wide steamer, bring water to a boil.

2 cups Bisquick

2 egg whites, plus 1 egg yolk, beaten

1 cup milk
1⁄2 cup sugar

In a mixing bowl, blend all ingredients well. Spoon mix into mini-muffin pans about 2⁄3 full, then place in steamer. Cover and steam about seven minutes; remove from steamer and let cool. Remove steamed cakes by loosening sides with a small spatula. Repeat process with rest of mixture. Makes about 30 cakes. Cover cakes with plastic wrap to keep them moist



KAUWELOA’S “WHAT’S my name” lomilomi
JOE “KEO” KAUWELOA (HONOLULU TERMINAL)

5 lbs. tomatoes, sliced

1 sweet round onion, diced

4 legs of local tako (octopus), cooked and chopped

1 bag dried shrimp

1 lb. salted salmon, diced


Mix all ingredients in a large bowl and lomilomi (knead). Add splash of shoyu and sprinkle with black pepper. Lastly, add chopped green onions, then lomilomi for the last time.


SESAME CROQUETTES
RHONDA MURRAY (CORPORATE RELATIONS REPRESENTATIVE)

1 14-oz. bag sesame pancake croquette pimetees (looks like wun tun chips with black sesame seeds, available at 99 Ranch Market, Longs and Marukai)

1 cup butter

1⁄4 cup sugar

1⁄4 cup Karo syrup, clear

11⁄2 Tbsp. shoyu


Mix all ingredients together in a large pan and bake at 250 degrees for one hour, turning every 15 minutes. Cool thoroughly before storing.


SPICE REFRIGERATOR COOKIES
WALLACE HORIBATA (ALOHA AIRLINES PILOT)

Sift:

21⁄2 cups flour

1⁄2 tsp. baking soda

2 tsp. cinnamon

1⁄2 tsp. nutmeg

Combine:

1 cup butter

1⁄2 cup brown sugar

1⁄2 cup white sugar

1 egg

Beat together until creamy; add flour mixture and stir all together. Refrigerate dough until workable

Roll into round balls; smash with palm of hand. Bake on greased cookie sheet at 350 degrees for eight to 10 minutes (or until brown).                                                                                                                            

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