Holiday Fruit and Nut Fudge
Holiday Fudge made with White Chocolate, Graham Crackers, Peaches, Mango, Strawberries, Walnuts and Pistachios My Animal Cracker Fudge was such a big hit last year, that I decided to do a version with brightly colored fruits this year. Freeze dried fruit retains a very bright color naturally. Its sole ingredient is the fruit alone. Most...
Pa’i’ai Tortillas (Allergy Friendly)
Kalua Pork Taco in Pa’iai Tortilla, with steamed cabbage and pico de gallo Recently I got some pastured pork butt from the Sunday morning Farmers Market for the first time, and it made the most delicious Kalua Pig! It was so tender and juicy– I could hardly believe how much better it tasted than pork...
Pa’i’ai, Traditional Hawaiian Pounded Taro, made into Personal Size Pizzas (Allergy Friendly)
Vacuum sealed Pa’i’ai delivered right to my mailbox in a priority USPS envelope I’ve been having fun playing in the kitchen with Pa’i’ai fresh from Mana Ai in Hawaii. What is Pa’i’ai? It is simply hand pounded, cooked taro root. Cut open the vacuum sealed bag and find fresh Pa’i’ai wrapped in fresh ti leaves...
Candy Corned Squash (Delicata, Butternut and Cauliflower)
Red Kabocha, Bluebell Hubbard and Delicata Squash The Farmers Markets are filled so many beautiful pumpkins and squash this time of year. I was surprised to discover Red Kabocha Squash with skin the most intense shade of orange. I ended up getting so many squash, that carrying them turned out to be a workout! How about some...
Roasted Sweet Potato Jack-o-Lantern Faces and Ghosts
I was so excited to think up of making these jack-o-lantern faces and ghosts with roasted sweet potato slices– something healthy and festive. I didn’t find out until after I had made them, and did a little surfing online, that someone had already done the sweet potato jack-o-lantern faces last year. Oh well, it’s still...
Sweet Potato Gingerbread Girls with Vanilla Bean Linen Aprons
Sugar and spice and all things nice include sweet potatoes too, and rows and rows of these sweet girls. I used mashed sweet potatoes to take place of part of the fat in these gingerbread cookies, and to give them some added nutrition. Both the orange fleshed and the yellow fleshed sweet potatoes may be...
Roasted Vegetable Lasagna (Great for a Family Dinner of Mixed Diets)
Eggplant, zucchini, crookneck squash, summer squash, bell peppers, onion slices, mushrooms, and fennel are vegetables which work well. Cut open the bell peppers, remove the insides and slice them into large rectangles. Slice other vegetables 3/8″ thick, and place similarly sized vegetables together in the same pan so you can remove vegetables which cook faster...
Spicy Baked Buttermilk Chicken Strips
These baked chicken strips are easy to make when you’re craving something like fried chicken, but don’t actually want to deep fry anything. The marinade is made with two simple ingredients: buttermilk and hot wing sauce. I like this hot wing sauce because it only contains cayenne peppers, vinegar, salt, garlic and a little oil....
Fresh Strawberry Manju (Hawaiian Crispy Style)
The farmers markets are brimming with berries this time of summer. The other day, I picked up some blackberries and strawberries that were so sweet and juicy. On my way home, I was thinking about what I could make with them, when I was struck by the greatest idea– A whole fresh strawberry tucked...
Drinks to Cool Down and Celebrate With
With the heat wave of 100+ degree days, I thought I’d re-share some of my other favorite slushie drinks to cool down with, other than our recent favorite, Haupia Slushie. It’s about time to make those haupia stars to celebrate the fourth of July with this Strawberry Watermelon Smoothie with Blueberries and Haupia Stars. Honey-Lemon,...
Mini Donut Cookies & The Coffee and Donut Lei
We’ve been a little fixated on donuts around here lately. Because I bake pretty frequently, I usually only get the family donuts once a year. For some reason, I’ve gotten donuts twice in the past few weeks, just recently from Doughbot Donuts. I’ve been thinking about a tiny donut cookie. I’d never seen one before,...
Candy Lei: Lemon Meringue and Strawberry Shortcake
Here are a couple of lei that are more heat stable than the Kukui Nut Candy Lei that I showed you last week. They’d hold up much better than the chocolate truffles at a graduation ceremony, or outdoors. These are just a couple of playful ideas– when it comes to candy lei, any combination of...
