Tag: wild fennel seeds

How To Make Kiawe Flour – Eat Local Maui Challenge

Dedicated to collective well-being, I share how to turn kiawe (Prosopis pallida) beans into flour. This abundance species, aka invasive species, is powerfully nutritious and definitely the most popular wild food I share with others. Known as mesquite in other English-speaking places, it has a long history of use and relationship with humans around the …

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Crispy Chips and Root Beer Fiz – Eat Local Maui Challenge

Crispy cassava chips, mango, and corn-on-the-cob were major food highlights of Day 26 eating 100% local… but the wild root beer is such a WINNER!!! (See the fiz in the video below) #eattheinvasives Today’s Menu – tea :: lilikoi*, kumquat*, kefir lime*, ginger from Maui Vintage, honey from UpCountry Apiaries, butter from Naked Cow Dairy.  …

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Wild Bitters Bliss

Bitters brewing away since last December…pulled out of the pantry…to feed the digestive fires. This batch came to be when I stumbled upon a beautiful patch of sow thistle plants (Sonchus oleraceus) while skipping along a country trail. Lovingly harvested…their healing leaves combined with nutmeg, cardamom, dried starfruit, chilis, cloves, wild fennel seeds, ginger root, …

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