Eat Local Hawaii

recycle your old bikes

Happy Earth Day!!

Tired of seeing all those old bikes out on the sidewalks being thrown away? Now if you are in Honolulu, you can donate old bikes to the Kokua Kalihi Valley instructional bike program, KVIBE. Call 791-9480 or email kvibe96819@gmail.com. For more information, go to www.k-vibe.blogspot.com.

Another option: Waialua High and Intermediate School’s Workplace Readiness Class repairs old bikes and returns them to the community. Call 637-8200. Thank you to the Star Advertiser for this great info!

 

 

slow foods chocolate tasting and making class

if you would like to learn more about the different varietes of chocolate, a little bit of chocolate history and how to make some, please check out the post on the slow foods oahu site. (here)

the event will take place jan 8, at 1pm at ferguson kitchen-space is limited, so rsvp right away.

whats in your container?

so of course we are trying to get you to go shop locally and buy fresh. but sometimes, you can’t. did you know about the packaging of your foods? how many companies used BPA in their canning process, but because of all the news in how bad  BPA is for you, you’d think they’d get rid of it all….

check out the BPA report over at green century. they rated a bunch of different companies in tn their commitment to find alternatives to BPA packaging, and to eliminate it from their container arsenal. its kind of surprising that some stores who you would think of being in the fore front, actually got D’s and F’s, according to this site. the top 3 companies? Hain Celestial, ConAgra and HJ Heinz.

Down in the bottom? Whole Foods (D+), safeway, walmart, kraft and hershey (F)

check it out here.

kula farms- csa to your doorstep

check out kula farms, they’ll deliver fresh produce from their farms to your home, office or school! we are trying it out for my kids school, so i’ll let you know when the produce arrives next week….they say they have bananas, watermelon, tomatoes, strawberries, lettuce and assortment of other herbs that are ripe and in season. small boxes which feed 3-4 people start at $39.

kula fields oahu.com

we got a tip that there are a few more csa’s out there on oahu-

check these out- and let us know how yummy they are?

Ailani Gardens CSA
Delivers to Kailua and Kapolei
Weekly Harvests
Cost $20 or $75 for 4 weeks
Approx. 3-5 lbs of seasonal fruits, salad greens, vegetables, herbs, etc.
http://www.ailanigardens.com
Contact Jason Leue
696-7616

Kahumana Farms
Pick up in Waianae
Weekly Harvests
Cost $20
http://www.kahumanafarms.org
696-2655

down to earth’s new non-gmo label

down to earth is having a 40%off sale for their new non-gmo line of products.

worth checking out to see what they have. i believe you have to be a member- but its no cost to join, and for every $300, you get a $5 reward towards future purchases. (it is kind of scary how fast that $300 builds up sometimes…) but the sale is this sunday, october 10, 2010.

Day 6 Eat Local Challenge

More ideas for our 6th day of the eat local challenge:

Breakfast: poi and banana

poi smoothies (poi, local milk, banana, papaya, local honey)

ka lei egg with homemade wheat bread toast, local cilantro, tomato and avocado

fruit salad (papaya, star fruit, banana, mango) with macnuts, honey and local coconut

homemade yogurt from local milk, fresh local fruit and honey

Lunch:

salad with hard boiled eggs and local feta

grilled veggies sandwich

lettuce wrap with grilled veggies (grill extra bell pepper, squashes, onions ahead of time, will keep 3 days in fridge)

Dinner:

taro,  breadfruit or sweet potato mash

new potato, sliced thin and baked with yogurt, goat cheese or feta and local butter

opah, prepare a sauce of macnut oil, garlic, local shallots and cilantro added at the last minute, ono!

fish tacos make a nice leftover meal from grilled local fish, add local veggies and with a very non-local tortilla, or avoid the tortilla and prepare as a fish salad over local greens

sauteed local greens: swiss chard, kale and/or collards

Day 5 Eat Local Challenge

we are all craving oatmeal again…we’ll have it with local fresh fruit- we still have some starfruit from Waikiki School and a few tangerines. for dinner we will enjoy fresh Li Pele from the school food farm

Breakfast: haumakua coffee, oatmeal, fresh local fruit

Lunch: local veggie sandwiches using avocado spread, local feta

Dinner: li pele with coconut milk, opah, local onions..follow recipe substituting your favorite local protein for the ground turkey (local pork used to be found at Star Markets and Foodland)

Day 4 Eat Local Challenge

today the challenge is really on…i’m tired of eating leftover mashed purple sweet potatoes and i miss munching on anything in the kitchen (okay, so i haven’t been that perfect, but for those of you who have keep it up!)…

Breakfast: banana, papaya, poi smoothies with big island milk

Lunch: hard boiled eggs, avocada with leftover ono fish, tomatoes and goat cheese

Dinner: book club at Formaggio’s who unfortunately was not participating in Kanu’s eat local challenge- will have to encourage them to do so next year!

Day 3 Eat Local Challenge

breakfast:

poi pancakes (2 Ka Lei eggs, 1 cup Hanalei poi, 2 cups Big Island milk, 2 cups flour (whole wheat or 50:50), 1 tsp baking powder, 1/2 tsp baking soda, 1/4 tsp salt, 1 tbsp sugar or honey; stir dry ingredients until combined, beat eggs lightly, add poi and milk until combined then stir in dry ingredients just until they come together; use naked dairy butter to coat pan)

fresh local starfruit

lunch: leftovers, and another salad; one thing about eating local is you get lots of vegetables

dinner: eggplant parmesan

local green salad, sliced hearts of palm, cucumbers, big island goat cheese

Day 2 Eat local challenge

It’s late in Day 2 and I’m just now posting my menu…

Breakfast:  homemade yogurt from local Big Island milk, 1/2 slice papaya, 1/2 banana (no time for pancakes or eggs)

…… (i’m still hungry!)

Lunch: leftover breakfast potatoes, steamed broccoli, sliced avocado

Snack: local sweet potato chips

Dinner: Grilled ono, purple sweet potatoes, roasted and cubed, kabocha squash soup

Dessert: Fried local bananas with naked dairy butter, maui sugar and rum (there was a local rum produced on Kauai but I haven’t been able to get ahold of it)