I believe each of us can have healthy food. Some are faced with more challenges to get there, for sure, but at the end of the day we each have the power to make steps towards gaining freedom and sovereignty over our own health. My own experience has taught me this deeply. While living in […]
DAY 29 @wildbiomeproject Red spiderling roots (Boerhavia diffusa) are so delicious – great texture and as a rasayana (longevity) herb used in over 30 Ayurvedic formulas quite potent indeed. Invasive, and a very common plant I see in our leeward coastal drylands as well as Central Valley. The bull thistle roots have good flavor, but […]
DAY 27 & 28 @wildbiomeproject Yup, I ate eyeballs and all. Another pan fried taape, with wild lettuce & wild amaranth greens, pōpolo berries, and wood sorrel flowers. So, yesterday was tough food wise but joyful in so many ways. Over 100 people were at my son and his partners baby shower…the food was absolutely […]
DAY 25 @wildbiomeproject Wild boar roast with inkberry leaves, capiçoba greens, and wood sorrel greens sautéed in coconut oil, java plum vinegar, couple turns of the grinder with Christmas berry & Peruvian pepper tree, and salt. Adorned with thimbleberries (Rubus rosifolius) and wood sorrel flowers. Breakfast was feral mango, wild amaranth & wild lettuce greens, […]
DAY 24 @wildbiomeproject Wanted to try making something like chia pudding using wild basil seeds and coconut milk. Took 2 full movies on Netflix to process 1 tbsp, so I think this was a once-in-a-lifetime dish! Scored some feral mangos (so small compared to store bought) to go on top. Salad of Chinese violet greens, […]
Well, day 20 it is of the Wildbiome Project! River prawns with roasted kukui nut (Aleurites moluccanus), feral avocado, tropical chickweed (Drymaria cordata), oriental or false hawksbeard, honohono grass (Commelina diffusa), wild lettuce, spanish needles, salt. I feel like my taste buds are flushing out, resetting, that they’ve died and are being resurrected. I’ve lost […]
DAY 11 @wildbiomeproject : Camping trip with my son and his bestie had them reeling in lots of fish that we cooked over the campfire. We ate moana (Paruoeneus multifasciatus), aha (Strongylura gigantea ), taape, and toao (Lutjanus fulvus) fish over the campfire, and cooked wild amaranth greens in coconut milk over the fire with […]
DAY 10 @wildbiomeproject Started with some Japanese honeysuckle (Lonicera japonica) and kāhili ginger (Hedychium gardnerianum) flower tea that was lovely. Then, on to slow simmered banana poka and guava juice with kiawe tea and tamarind vinegar to make a glaze for the wild pig which I had dry rubbed in salt and a hefty amount […]
Day 6 @wildbiomeproject had me delighting in this simple dish of invasive Tahitian prawns we caught in the river with Chinese violet greens and flowers in coconut milk, plus salt. Lunch/Dinner was weke (Mulloides flavolineatus) my son caught with sautéed coconut heart, wood sorrel seed pods & leaves (Oxalis corniculata). I also had a couple […]
Day 3 @wildbiomeproject : I started today with some slices of last nights venison. Then on to kiawe tea poached loquat (Eriobotrya japonica) with coconut cream and beach almonds (Terminalia catappa) on top. I’ll continue to cite scientific names of plants/animals/fungi if I haven’t eaten them yet during the project, but will otherwise now drop […]
And so it begins, 1 month of eating only 100% wild foods here in Hawaii! Day 1 Breakfast : palm grass seeds (Setaria palmifolia) boiled 20 minutes, frozen sea grapes (Coccoloba uvifera), fresh coconut milk (Cocos nucifera) with tea made 4 parts wild basil (Ocimum gratissimum) 2 parts Spanish needles (Bidens pilosa). First time I’ve […]
‘Opiuma is in season, going strong, and will continue to be in season for the coming couple of months! This invasive species is typically found in our dryland areas of Hawai’i but, as many areas that are typically more wet become more dry, the tree is expanding its range. Do you know this one? Also […]
