Cook: Silog

If you go to a Filipino breakfast cafe, it will typically serve “silogs” or garlic-fried rice (made from leftover rice served at dinner the night before) and eggs and a side of meat like Spam or longanisa (sausage) or tocino (bacon)—hence called logsilog or tosilog. And so I’ve been cooking silog breakfasts for my host here in Kauai but with a Hawaiian staple of Portuguese sausage. I’ve tried two brands now on the island, my favorite is from Redondo’s.     

And I picked up the habit of taming down the sugar in fruit juice with sparkling water when I traveled long ago in Germany (juice and sparkling water there is called schorle). Lilikoi or passion fruit has always been my favorite flavor, and I loved drinking it in an island environment.