Back in the Day

Bring back a more relaxed time, where homemade food was common, and families would bring out their signature dishes at parties. This colorful cookbook includes 106 delicious home-style recipes for you to treasure.

These easy-to-follow, tried and true dishes include Pork Chops Simmered in Onions, Tuna Casserole, Beef Stew, Warabi Salad, and Fried Aku Bones. Learn how to make the best Baked Ham with Raisin Sauce, Shrimp Canlis and the easiest Sausages with Potatoes and Onions. And of course, nostalgic favorites like Pound Cake, Rice Pilaf, and tasty Pea Salad.

And for dessert lovers, enjoy sweet tasting favorites like Mango Loaf, Double-Crusted Banana Pie, Lazy Daisy Cake, and Pumpkin Chiffon Pie and become the favored guest at potlucks with the Soba Salad and Kobumaki.

Lynette Lo Tom’s best-selling A Chinese Kitchen featured traditional recipes with an island twist. Back in the Day continues her quest to share great, local Hawai‘i, family-style recipes and engaging stories with you.

Here in Back in the Day, Lynette, well-known cookbook author and food columnist shares her love for home-cooking with these delightful, old-fashioned recipes from her family and friends.

Click Here for video of author Lynette Lo Tom introducing “Back in the Day”

****Errata for 1st and 2nd printings: pg 131 (Carrot Cake):
• Add 3 cups flour to ingredients. Incorporate flour into recipe when combining carrots and other ingredients in mixer.
• Decrease 3 cups sugar to 2 cups

RECIPES

Appetizers

• Deviled Eggs
• Pickled Vegetables, Ba-Le-Style
• Portuguese Pickled Onions
• Cucumber Namasu with Clams
• Rumaki
• Teriyaki Meatballs
• Chuba Iriko (Seasoned Dried Anchovies)
• Japanese-Style Kim Chee
• Hot Artichoke Dip

Salads & Soups

• Warabi Salad
• Caesar Salad
• Croutons
• Waldorf Salad
• Spinach Salad
• Pea Salad
• Soba Salad
• Antipasto Salad
• Easy French Dressing
• Tropics Dressing
• Coleslaw
• Carrot-Apple-Raisin Salad
• Korean Seaweed Soup
• Corn Chowder

Poultry

• Chicken Tetrazzini
• Chicken Broccoli Casserole
• Chicken Nishime
• Fried Chicken Thighs with Spicy Sauce
• Barbecue Honey Lemon Chicken
• Chicken Eggplant
• Hanamaulu Café Chicken
• Rotisserie (Huli Huli) Chicken
• Mochiko Chicken
• Nobu’s Chicken Hekka
• Easy Cornish Game Hen
• The Pottery Cornish Game Hen with Sauce
• Turkey Ala King
• Dressing for Turkey

Beef & Lamb

• Twist Peppers and Beef
• Teriyaki Steak or Barbecue Sticks
• Beef Stroganoff
• Beef Stew
• Spinach Lasagna
• Honeymoon Spaghetti
• Hamburger Steak and Gravy
• More Casserole
• Slumgullion
• Baked Oxtail Stew
• Pu¯lehu Ribs
• Pot Roast
• Oven Lamb Shank Stew
• Roasted Leg of Lamb

Pork

• Kobumaki (or Konbu Maki)
• Baked Ham
• Raisin Sauce for Ham
• Oven Ka¯lua Pig
• Sausage Potatoes and Onions
• Pork Chops with Onion Gravy

Seafood & Fish

• Ahi Poke
• Mahimahi with Tartar Sauce
• Salmon Tofu Watercress Salad
• Tuna Casserole
• Ahi Belly
• Chiri Sauce for Fish
• Fried Aku Bones
• Shrimp Canlis
• Shrimp Curry

Side Dishes

• Zucchini Juhn
• Rice Pilaf
• Baked Bananas
• Onion Casserole
• Easy Scalloped Potatoes
• Hold in Your Hand Guava Jell-O
• Lime-Pineapple Jell-O Mold
• Spicy Cranberry Relish

Bread

• Morning Biscuits with Cinnamon and Brown Sugar
• Mango Loaf
• Grandma’s Cornbread
• Banana Bread (based on the Old Kona Inn recipe)
• Spoon Rolls
• Sally Lunn Dinner Rolls
• Lavosh (Armenian Flat Bread)

Desserts

• Apricot Mochi
• Coconut Butter Mochi
• Double-Crusted Banana Pie
• Blueberry Cream Cheese Pie
• Flaky Pie Crust and Custard Pie Filling
• Lemon Ice Box Pie
• Pumpkin Chiffon Pie
• New York-style Cheesecake
• “I Make Better” Pineapple Upside Down Cake
• Classic Pound Cake
• Prune Cake
• Fresh Apple Cake
• Sponge Cake
• Carrot Cake
• Easy Poppy Seed Cake
• Lazy Daisy Cake
• Butter Nut in a Cup Tartletts
• Caramel Cuts or Blondie Bars
• Waioli Tea Room Date Bars
• Krispy Krunch Kookies
• Baked Apples
• Thai Tapioca Pudding