We call it Loco Moco!

Nice color! My mixer is blah white, but I did score it for 60 bucks from craigslist. What I worship is my vita mix. You can do everything from grinding grain for flour to making soup. Awesome!! I use mine every day, for fresh fruit smoothies.

I loved the CSA post; we have raised our own beef, and could never cause them unnecessary pain or suffering. A local butcher would come to our ranch and dispatch the cow before it knew what hit it. It is a sincere way to say thank you to the animal for providing us with food.

We have a number of really good farmers markets in the Hilo area; each of them a little bit different. The bay front market has the most variety, with fresh abalone, a larger selection of fruit and veggies, and more days of operation. The Maku’u farmers market only happens on Sundays; in addition to produce you can listen to local music, buy handicrafts, plants, second-hand items, and great food- green papaya salad, adobo, crepes, huli huli chicken. Every tiny town here has some kind of open-air produce market, run by an affable auntie or uncle. Veggie lovers rejoice! A trip to Hilo area is a good wallow in luscious tropical produce.

Yeah, you’re seeing gmo fruits and veggies; step away from the food, ma’am, its’ genes belong to Mansanto Corp.

Was the fried bread a yeast-based bread? I have made Navajo fry bread, and occasionally use it for Navajo tacos. Yum!

Living on the Big Island of Hawaii, we are all very aware of the distance our food travels to get to us. All of our grain-based foods, most of our dairy products, and a large percentage of our produce come from mainland sources; which in turn, came from some other place on the globe. We are fortunate to have a large farming community where I live, and I try to keep my shopping as local as as possible. Sustainable living really must become a priority here, if only to keep costs reasonable. Taro is much better than bread and other wheat products; it’s local, versatile, and tasty! There may be other grains that can take the place of wheat here (given space constraints to grow it), I plan on trying a few of them.