Boiled Asian Eggplant with Thai Peanut Dipping Sauce

This farm recipe is a perfect finger-food, appetizer. Boil eggplant leaving it whole and dip into the spicy peanut sauce. We have year round eggplants in Hawaii and thanks to our grafted eggplant trees we have an abundance. As much as I tried to incorporate eggplant into our menu at the farm, there were many […]

Liver Pate with Curry Berry Leaf

If you’re throwing away your organ meats when you butcher a pig, sheep, goat, or cow, you might want to think twice about including them in your diet. Many cultures relish organ meats not only because they provide essential nutrients they also taste amazing. Our ancestors most likely ate the organ meats first. They are […]

Coffee Macadamia Nut Brittle

Why make peanut brittle when you can rock it with coffee and macadamia nuts? What a great way to celebrate Hawaii by using two ingredients from the aina (land). We have five macadamia or mac nut trees on the farm. It’s funny that I’m mentioning that, because today we actually planted a sixth tree. A […]

Growing and Eating Yuca in Hawaii

Try this experiment and go outside your house into your yard and see if you can find any food that you could eat. Imagine if grocery stores ceased to exist, is there anything in your backyard you could eat? You might be able to cut off those fiddleheads on your Hapu’u fern and eat those […]

Cooking with Breadfruit (Ulu)

If you have a breadfruit or Ulu tree and you haven’t been using the fruit to feed your family, now is the time to learn how to use it and live more sustainably from the land. It’s easy to cook with, is extremely versatile, and delicious. When unripe, you can use it in place of […]