Finally! The post you’ve all been waiting for. Yeah, it’s nice to look at pictures of a Hawaiian vacation, but what we all really want to see is the food.

So here it is without further ado — what I ate on my Hawaiian vacation.

Japanese food is one of my favorite cuisines. Growing up in Texas, I also cultivated an appreciation for BBQ sauce. Today we’re doing a fusion dish. Call it New American meets Japanese: BBQ Natto with Shrimp.

I visited the Gold Mine Natural Food booth at Expo West on Saturday to find something exceptionally thrilling: freeze-dried natto. Natto is a form of Japanese fermented soybeans. Natto is unique in that it contains extremely high amounts of vitamin K2.

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Yesterday we had eggs over easy, cooked in butter, with lacto-fermented salsa and avocado slices. Kate had the same thing — only I didn’t give her any salsa. For lunch, we all had leftover carrot soup. For dinner, I served steak au poivre (pepper steak) and homemade French onion soup, along with some roasted spaghetti [...]