Tag: persimmon

Dyeing With Wild Indigo – Eat Local Maui Challenge

Get a peek into identifying wild indigo (Indigofera suffruticosa) and a rudimentary way of dyeing with it. Learn what a ripe Monstera deliciosa fruit looks like, and the trick to crispy cassava chips. It’s Day 28 of the Eat Local Maui Challenge with Project Locavore. I’ve been eating 100% local foods to the Hawaiian Islands …

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Avocado Mousse – Eat Local Maui Challenge

Day 20 of eating 100% locally grown foods to the Hawaiian Islands as part of the Eat Local Maui Challenge with Project Locavore. Had a nice big breakfast, snacky kind of lunch, and dinner with an avocado mousse dessert. In the video you get an inside peek at putting ingredients together.  Breakfast :: kalo from Ho`omakua …

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Eating Flowers – Eat Local Maui Challenge

Eating flowers was my Election Day therapy for Day 18 of eating 💯 locally grown, raised, and foraged foods from the Hawaiian Islands. breakfast :: poi made with Ho’omakua Farms kalo, persimmon gifted from Protea Gardens of Maui, lilikoi*, roasted kukui***, roasted mac nut from Waihe’e Mac Nut Plantation, coco cream, blue plumbago flowers*, red …

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Day 17 – Eat Local Maui Challenge

100% local for my 17th Day straight of the Eat Local Maui Challenge at Project Locavore. Today’s feasting included :: Ho’omakua kalo made into poi, persimmon gifted from Protea Gardens of Maui, lilikoi*, roasted kukui nut***, toasted macadamia nut from Waihe’e Macnut Plantation, bee pollen from guy up at the top of UpCountry Farmers Market, …

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Happy Halloween – Eat Local Maui Challenge

One of my absolute favorite times of year! These times of celebration can be challenging when trying to eat 100% local, as potluck and family traditions abound. But, I slogged my way through, and not half badly when chocolate and caramels are involved.  tea :: blue butterfly pea flowers gifted from Wailuku Farms, lemon from my …

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Steamed Cassava Packets – Eat Local Maui Challenge

100% local food for 10.27.2020 Am sooo happy with this recipe! Help me name this creation, lol cassava “logs/steamed packets” doesn’t work. Today marks Day 11 of Project Locavore 2020. Had been craving some type of grab and go food like this and got lucky with making up this recipe.  The days menu – tea …

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