Growing up in O’okala, this video brings back so many memories and reminds me of the soul of the community at the time. It’s great you got the entire family to participate. Thank you for doing this.

Great video! I remember many of these dishes too growing up, particularly spam and string beans. Yes, the beans were grown in the backyard or the neighbors would bring over and share. So good to hear your mom and her brothers share stories growing up in Papaaloa and to have them in a video like this. Your grandma looks so great for her age. Would love to see more videos like this!

Brings back so much good memories of the old days. Thanks you guys for these videos.

OMG!!! This is so awesome! Just found this...grandma used to cut our hair in Papaaloa in the late 70s-80s. Went to school at Laupahoehoe...lived in Kapehu Camp. Simply awesome!!!

Thank you. Such a sweet video of your Ohana sharing and preparing favorite foods and reminiscing. I loved that each sibling tried a dish and thanked the sibling that prepared it ❤❤❤

This brings back so many memories!! Not only of the food but of that kitchen and the dining table. Yes, your Grandpa (my Uncle Haru) as a very meticulous cook, everything had to be "just so". Loved growing up with this family! Please give my love to your Aunt and Uncles and a big hug for your Grandma!! Much love to you all!!

Wonderful to see your mother and her siblings get together to share memories and cook meals that they grew up with. This video truly made me feel nostalgic for simpler times, too. My grandmother prepared similar meals and although she is no longer with us, she lives on whenever I cook something that she made. I echo your sentiment about connecting through food. Please keep filming these videos, as they truly are what Hawaii is about...ohana, and sharing aloha through our meals.

Thank you. Would love more of family cooking with grandma. It took me back to my childhood in Kalihi and the dishes my parents and uncles and aunties cooked. Great video! Brings back lots of memories.

Enjoyed watching this so much! Very sweet to see your family cooking for Grandma and sharing memories. ❤

this was such an awesome video. I felt like I was a guest at your table and I am in love with your family! The food was secondary although obviously the center of all the memories. :-) You have a wonderful heritage of what seems to be very good people. You are blessed.

Such a beautiful family wonderful that you are sharing your family’s memories mahalo🌺

Nice to see ole friends from UHs Gateway Dorm of the early 70s. I will forward the URL on to others from the same era whom I remain in contact with. I have retired back to HILO. William J King, PhD, MPH

What an awesome video!!! Loved hearing about the good ole hanabata growing up days. Remembering and sharing and most importantly spending time with Grandma is priceless💞

This is awesome!! I’m from Waipahu on Oahu and was born and raised on plantation life food!! I enjoy watching your videos because I now live in Las Vegas so it’s nice to see familiar dishes!! Thank u for sharing!!!

Love your vids and making memories! I wish my family was bigger but most have passed on and were of older age when I was younger. Cannot help but I enjoy your willingness to share your family and good local food!

Thank you for doing this video! There is nothing else like locally prepped corned beef hash and the other dishes.

Loved this video. Learned a lot. We ate Spam growing up, too, but the way you guys cooked it looked delicious. Everything looked delicious. Wished I was there.🥰

I enjoy all of your videos, but this was extra special as it brought back memories of my grandmother’s cooking! I’ll definitely try these out 😋. My parents were from Papaikou and Keeau so we enjoyed plantation style meals when we visited the Big Island. Thank you and your family for sharing with all of us.

Fun video, and great cooking. Good job Tamamoto's!

Truly enjoy your videos. This one was special. I found your channel because I was looking for a chicken hekka recipe. That was a while ago! My grandparents lived on Maui and I'd often spend summers with them. The dishes are quite the same. What a great idea to bring your family together. Aloha! from a Happy subscriber

Aloha Tamamoto Family! Warmed my heart to see everyone and the delicious dishes that was made. Much love from the Matsushita's.

I also add green bell pepper to my corn beef hash. I fry mine in a cast iron pan for he crust. Served with sunny side up eggs.

Thoroughly enjoyed this down to earth plantation style cooking video with the family. Please have more videos with the family. Mahalo😀

More videos ! Again Cari, thoroughly enjoyed the video. Everything looked delicious ! Thank you !

I think it's awesome that you did this!!! Love it😊😋

Terrific Cooking show; My dad had seven brothers Ola'a -Keau ..Mitsuo Sakazaki third son... sitting next to him at the dinner tablegrowing up I asked him why do we eat so fast.: he told me you have six brothers, if you dont eat fast you don't get secpnds lol sitting across my mothe Nancy Suehiro ,,, CHEW YOUR FOOD

I just found your channel, and I absolutely LOVE it! These plantation style dishes are amazing, and the memories shared here on this video, are priceless! Thank you for sharing your beautiful mama, your mom, uncles, and your family recipes with us!

Enjoyed watching your blogs with your family. I am also from Papaikou Big Island- just brought warm memorable memories. Thanks for sharing.

This is awesome and so heart warming! I love seeing all of your family together creating beautiful memories! And grandma looks great as always☺️ I enjoy watching your family videos! And these recipes also look soo delicious🤤Thank you for sharing!!

First I’ll like to give your ohana my condolences 💐 You are truly blessed to have such beautiful memories made and shared with with all of us. I wish I could of done this with my grand parents, who also lived plantation style, in paauilo. I remember the backyard garden and I could really relate when uncle Warren & Benji started taking about the green bean😂 but it’s true, it shows how much love went into growing the vegetables, now days it’s different. Your mom was right about using canned corn beef, and Benji was right about cooking the veggies first. Lol. For the past 20yrs I been making these meals for my wife and kids now, although it’s a little different, it’s the same thing. When I make spam and green beans, I just add water and more shoyu with cornstarch to make a gravy. (No carrots 🥕) lol, idk why because we had carrots growing in the garden an oh how I loved to pull them out when ready. It’s amazing how your videos brings back so many great memories. Thank you so much for making and sharing your videos and stories. 🥂 In memory of our wonderful grandparents

Love our country style!🌺 thx for sharing.

Thank you for sharing!! Now I can keep this all these favorites I grew up with!!

What a great video, with all the family members cooking

That was so awesome! Thank you so much for that video!

Spam and green beans.....a staple dish for us plantation family......used some oyster sauce instead of shoyu.....

Awesome 👍😎👍 Tysm for sharing these beautiful cooking n family meals, I remember my grandma cooking same kind food also

Thank you for sharing, loved this and learned alot!!❤

Love it! So true learn it or lose it. Lol, i spock your Mililani cookbook. One of my faves!

ALOHA & MAHALO~ GREAT TO SEE THE OHANA/FAMILY GATHERINGS👍🤙👊

Loved this video! The food looks soooo ono! Thank you for sharing this with us. Aloha!

This was wonderful. I have a lot of spam and always looking for recipes. I am walking to the market today and will grab some fresh ingredients from our farmers. :) I am in Poland so finding some dishes with flavor is a must. Thank you so much!

Oh, how I thoroughly enjoyed this video. I really like the recipes but especially loved your family sharing their memories of growing up and honoring your grandpa and grandma. My family on Oahu weren't plantation people but we still ate very similar meals like your grandpa and grandma made. Your family is just like my family back home in Hawai'i ...so full of love. We've been living in West Texas for the past 9 years and watching your videos makes me soooooo homesick for Hawai'i, the food, and the people. Please keep on sharing your recipes and family memories with us!

This was an awesome vlog … good food beautiful family and proud grandma 👍 thank you!

Beautiful video!! Thank You for sharing❤💖❤💖 More plantation recipes❤💖❤💖

It’s so nice to include your sweet Grandma in your videos !

Thank you for sharing this I really enjoyed it🤙🏽🌺🌴

That was great thanks for sharing

I absolutely LOVED this video!! It is going to be a true treasure for all of you to have and watch over and over!! GREAT GREAT idea/content for a keepsake video. Thank you for sharing!!

I love this video! It’s so great seeing the whole family together and I know it must’ve made grandma really happy 😊 also, I learned about using whiskey for meat from my mom! That’s what we do when we make chopped steak

I so enjoyed this so much, mahalo nui...your family is so beautiful.

I’m so glad I found this video! Loved the recipe and it was Ono!!❤😊

That was awesome...Mahalo for sharing

Very nice video with the family!! The dishes looked very tasty. Never tried to make home made corned beef hash, it looks delicious!!

Love the "back in the day" cooking .. thanks for letting each sibling share..🤙. Yeah bring them back!

I enjoyed watching the video. I would watch what you put out.

Aloha, I just found your channel couple weeks ago and have beeb binge watching your channel. Everything makes my mouth water. I have enjoyed the dinner inspirations I have gotten from watching your videos. tfs🤙🌺

Love to see you again!!!

Mahalo for sharing this great video with us! I learned some new things and saw some great old food I used to enjoy. Yes, please make more videos like this 🙏 ❤

I love your family!! And all the Hawaiian dishes. Much to learn from your family.

Great idea for leftover corned beef sounds savory, got to try this recipe.

All these dished are great. Wish I was there to taste them all.

I’m originally from Honolulu (living on the mainland) and enjoyed this video so much. We ate the same foods growing up…grandma and my mom were also excellent cooks. My grandparents were both from Okinawa. I’ve subscribed to your channel and would love to see more of your sweet family. Maybe one of the siblings can cook Nishime? 😋 Thanks for sharing!

All your videos are so full of historical information. You have a wonderful Ohana. Thanks.

Yall have sucb a beautiful family! God bless ya'll !!

This was beautiful to watch.

never mind Ive seen it. thank you

Thank you for keeping local foods going alot of old time traditions in Hawaii are no longer practiced or passed down to the younger generations the ways of old are becoming or have already been lost in this modernized world we must keep Hawaii family traditions going by teaching our keiki for they are the future of Hawaii

Best gathering ever, when you cooked and enjoyed the foods. ofcourse the company of family. where i can see the recipe for the sweet and sour pork ribs. i loved this dish when there's a party in big island.

Your 'ohana is so awesome and mahalo nui for all the great meals! ❤

I never thought of making corned beef hash in a pan in the oven, but now I going try 🤙🏽 easier than making patties 😀also haven’t seen that spam dish before but going try too. I asked my mom if they had it and she said yeah but gramma put cabbage sometimes. My dad was from the mainland and never ate spam so we didn’t have it in our house. Only had at my Aunty dems house for breakfast kine when I slept over. And of course when I got older I ate more spam. Mahalo for sharing ❤

Aloha, I discovered your channel very recently. I am thoroughly enjoying all the dishes that are being prepared. This video, especially, brought back so many memories of how my Dad cooked. I love the Spam dish and am going to have to make it. I love doing different things with Spam. One of my favorites is Spam with cabbage. The Beef Tomato is very much like how my Dad fixed it. He always said Ketchup was the secret ingredient. I have tried so many recipes for Sweet and Sour Spare Ribs and none of them have been like what I remembered my Dad fixing. So I am going to try this one. Could you tell me how much Vinegar your uncle put in the dish? Thank you so much!

What a great family! Keep the traditions even though it seems like you all moved to Oahu. Aloha and God Bless your Ohana! I am from Kona and grew up in the Macadamia Nut orchards, but the lifestyle seems very similar for that era of 60s-70s.

Dr. Tamamoto....didn't know you could cook!/....LOL

Oops, I didn't click on your comment to see the recipes for these dishes...:)

Hi nice to meet you anti itsue tamamoto

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What brand vinegar did you use for the spareribs?

As I’m attempting your recipe I was wondering if you marinate the meat