I noticed this new pasta salad at 711 the other day and decided to try it for dinner.  I don’t have a full picture of this but at the bottom of this dish is cooked spaghetti noodles.  I don’t know why they put a white sauce on the noodles – it’s a cold pasta salad.  I’m guessing it’s mayonnaise but I’m not sure.  On the top of the spaghetti is a small container of dressing (I assume it’s oriental dressing), some salad greens and a few pieces of what tasted like Korean chicken.  Here’s a picture.

Looks pretty good huh?  It was all right.  I think the mayonnaise keeps the pasta moist so it won’t stick together.  The chicken was…not great.  It was cold and hard…so a bit rough.  All in all the salad was good but not something I would return for.

Have you tried the new Brug Bakery in Shirokiya yet?  When they first opened, it was pandemonium!  The line was neverending and people were limited to like two pieces per person.  I came by on a weekday for lunch recently and decided to check out their goods.  I bought a half loaf of their regular white bread.  It definitely is pricey, the half loaf cost about 6 dollars but each slice is big and thick!

Toasted Brug bread with tuna salad and cranberries

How’s the bread?  DELICIOUS.  I can see why it costs what it costs.  You can taste a lot of good quality ingredients and they must have bread baking down to a perfect science.  I toasted the bread a bit so it was crispy yet still soft inside.  Perfection.  And then since I was still on the tuna kick, I added tuna and cranberries on top.  I bought like this huge bag of cranberries at Costco because it was on sale.  Costco is dangerous.

It’s inevitable.  When it rains, it pours.  To top off a stressful week, I got a flat tire last night.  Great right?  And for me, I have this terrible phobia about tires.  I don’t know how it started but I am always afraid of my tires going out on me.  Do you ever see those tire scraps on the freeway?  Like how does that even happen?  It’s like huge pieces of the tire!  That freaks me out!  Anyhow, I got home last night and saw my back tire like flat to the ground.  I threw down my stuff and immediately drove to Costco.  I usually only like going to Costco Hawaii Kai for tire needs but this was an emergency and the closest Costco to me was in Iwilei.

So I get there with my flat barely in tact at about 5:30 pm.  I was told that they have stopped taking in cars and I was like…but it’s like flat.  He came to check it out and mentioned he could try to squeeze me in but no guarantee and if he can’t do it, he will put on my spare.  I said okay.  I mean what else could I do right?  So almost three hours later, I get a call and was told they couldn’t do the tire so I get my car.  Then I had to take it to Hawaii Kai today to get it fixed.  I was actually pretty surprised but the guys at Hawaii Kai couldn’t understand why Iwilei couldn’t just put the new tire on.  Then I started thinking about it and was like…yeah!  If they get time to put the spare why not the new tire??  Well what can I say right?  Hawaii Kai was busy too so I had to wait another hour and a half.  While I was waiting, one of the customers mentioned that Costco Iwilei has the biggest sales of tires NATIONWIDE.  Yes, our little island buys the most tires in the nation.  Then everyone made a crack about our potholes.

Sorry for the long paragraphs, just wanted to tell the story.  But while we’re on the subject of Costco, they started selling individual servings of salads that I currently LOVE.  The bad thing about Costco is that they are barely consistent with their stock of food.  I do hope they keep this one!  Let me share some pictures.

Yum…Santa Fe Salad…only 280 calories!!

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