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Because we come up with something creative so rarely, it’s worth noting in our digital recipe box…so we can recreate it sometime. Last night we made opah with tofu sauteed with pears and shallots in a vanilla lilikoi dressing. Tonight we made a riff on that with an herb salad topped with Korean pear, shallots, dates and [...]

Sam and I hiked his bike into the woods on a mountain biking trail (Ben was in my pack) to take training wheels off and coast back down the trail. It was pretty muddy, and the further we got the more ravenous the mosquitoes were! Sam and I have been talking about mountain biking like [...]

Mom picked up a pineapple crown (the top portion you cut off before eating) two and a half years ago at the Dole plantation. The idea is you bring it home, plant it, and grow a new pineapple. Well, we did, but the plant grew and grew and didn’t seem to generate a baby. We knew it [...]

    Here’s what I’ve been up to lately for work…About two years ago I met a very talented designer (Alfredo Garma) through a friend and colleague, Wes (who owns Formaggio Grill here in Kailua, as well as four other restaurants). A long time ago Alfredo and I talked about swapping skills – I needed a logo and [...]

My friend Christina and her daughter, Sarah, took the adventurers to Kukaniloko today – the “Birthing Stones” where ali’i were born. Some of the rocks had petroglyphs visible on them, and one or two were obviously used to mark the passage of time with grooves worn around the edges to cast shadows into a concentric [...]