For the long New Years weekend, we are going to the last of the six visitable Hawaiian Islands, Molokai, with our friends Mike and Megan. To plan our adventures on this 38×10 miles itty-bitty unspoiled island, we invited Mike and Megan over for dinner Tuesday night. I made a new recipe, as I repeatedly insist on doing for guests despite all recommendations against it, and thankfully it turned out well. There were some unique ingredient combinations in the tomato sauce that I was a bit nervous to try out on our innocent pals, but they loved the spicy and sweet final product. The recipe was so different in a fantastic way that it piqued my interest in its creator, Yotam Ottolenghi. The next day I tried his quinoa, fennel, and pomegranate salad recipe, and I knew the delicious salmon wasnt just a fluke. Chef Ottolenghi comes up with astonishing flavor pairings. I will be trying as many of his recipes as I can and hoping that the translation from metric measurements doesnt throw me off too much!