Two Weeks in Paradise and Suite 1615

This coconut pudding, haupia, is a staple desert at every Hawaiian luau.
Ingredients:
2 cups coconut milk
1 cup whole milk
6 tablespoons sugar
5 tablespoons cornstarch
1/4 tsp vanilla (if desired)
Preparation:Pour one cup of coconut milk into a saucepan. Combine sugar and cornstarch stirring into coconut milk. (Add vanilla if desired.) Heat over low stirring consistently until thickened.
Add remainder of coconut milk and whole milk and continue to heat until thickened. Pour into 8 inch square pan and chill until firm.
The recipe can be easily modified for personal taste using more or less sugar and cornstarch.

When my mother was 50 years old she drove my younger sister, Rosella, and me to Ontario, Canada, for the second time, visiting all 48 contiguous states, her dream come true. She had a big map of the USA on our living room floor in rural Vallejo, California, and penciled in her route. It took me almost 50 more years to visit my last two states. Last year my husband, Michael, and I took our silver wedding anniversary cruise on our temple sealing anniversary May 7 to Alaska's Inland Passage, my 49th visited state during Alaska's 49th anniversary of statehood and Alaska is the 49th state. May 16, 2009, Michael and I flew together for the first time in 26 years of marriage to Honolulu to visit Hawaii, my 50th visited state during their 50th anniversary of statehood, and the 50th state in the Union. It wasn't planned that I wait until Hawaii's 50th year as a state, it's just the way it turned out. We were planning to visit Hawaii first last year. Now it's my own dream come true. All who have visited the 50 states please contact me.