It’s spring time! It’s BBQ time! It’s allergy time! Today we will be addressing the third and least glamourous aspect of the current season. I will not go into the horrific details of my seasonal allergies. Those of you who share this problem know all to well what it is like. Last year, I posted…
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Watercress Salad with Avocado and Broiled Pineapple
Happy Mother’s Day!! This is a recipe for my mother and also for anyone else who reads this blog in Hawaii (where I grew up). I have made this fabulous salad recipe, from Gran Cocina Latina: The Food of Latin America by way of Food 52, many times in the last few weeks. It is really good, even…
Laying Hens and Herbal Teas
I am working at a farm this summer and fall! This is something I’ve been wanting to do for going on 10 years now, ever since I travelled down the west coast on a bike tour meeting farmers and other people who care about agriculture. Yep, so finally it’s happening. I just finished my first…
Watercress and Buttermilk Vichyssoise
I am rediscovering my love of watercress. It was my favourite green vegetable in my college years. Every week I would make one of my three watercress dishes. 1. Pasta with watercress arugola and goat cheese 2. Tomato soup with watercress 3. Watercress and arugula salad with sun dried tomatoes and marinated artichoke hearts. I…
Fried Lima Beans with Feta, Sorrel, Sumac and Lemon
This recipe combines beans that originated in Peru with cooking techniques and spices from the Middle East AND the little green things that are starting to come out of the ground at this moment in New York State. It used up a few delicious green spring herbs (ramps and sorrel) that I had enthusiastically purchased…
Four Weird and Delicious Pestos
I know this is weird, but I don’t make basil pesto. I make pesto for three reasons. 1. I have some sad bunch of green something that I did not use in a timely fashion, but cannot stand to throw away, so I make it into pesto. The truth is, I do not buy…
Crushed Green Olive Salad with Celery and Mint
I knew I was going to love this salad as soon as I read the recipe. I am a big fan of good green olives and celery. In fact, when I travel I always pack green olives and celery as an airplane snack. Also, this salad has mint in it and I love mint in…
Maui Forager’s Salad- Pohole Fern, Watercress and Poha Berry Salad
It is easy to forage for food in Hawaii. There are wild mountain apples that grow on the side of the road on the way to Hana and guava trees dotting the ranch land that many of the hiking trails cut through. There used to be wild tomatoes growing at Makena beach. In Hawaii, food…
Carrot Cardamom Muffins with Coconut Rosewater Icing (Gluten-Free)
I wanted to make a carrot cake inspired by Indian carrot halva for Easter this year. I wanted it to have coconut instead of walnuts and feature cardamom and rosewater. We are spending Easter with my mum on Maui, where I grew up and she still lives. I knew that my mother likes cardamom and…
Creamy Jicama, Kohlrabi and Carrot Slaw with Garlic and Lemon/ Maui Farm Vegetables
I spent the second half of my childhood on the island of Maui. First in the old whaling town and tourist Mecca of Lahaina and later in the scorching hot seaside sprawl of Kihei. When my parents bought their house in Kihei, my mother was eager to start a garden. She had grown up on…
Big Sis Little Dish 