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Hot Shots in Kilauea

By on October 25, 2012 in To Table: Ono Eats
Cas Schwabe-Lutton of Akamai Juice Company. Daniel Lane photo

Cas Schwabe-Lutton of Akamai Juice Company. Daniel Lane photo

 

On October 26, The Garden Cafe in Kilauea will start selling Akamai Juice Company Wellness Shots and Hot Shots. When Dan and I covered Akamai Juice, and owner Cas Schwabe Lutton, for the January 18, 2012 issue of MidWeek Kauai, we got to try these shots.

The Hot Shot is hot! It’s a fiery blend made with local, organic Hawaiian chili peppers. We call them nioi or nioi pepa here, but they are in the bird pepper family. There is also local, organic ginger; local, organic turmeric; organic garlic, and local, organic lime. Continue Reading →

Guest Post by Daniel Shipley

By on April 9, 2012 in Guest Posts
21 year-old Daniel Shipley

21 year-old Daniel Shipley

Daniel Shipley lives in British Columbia and writes about food and travel at Northern Rambler, a blog about discovery. While living on Kauai for a year, he worked in the kitchen at Oasis on the Beach, a seaside restaurant that showcases farm-to-table cuisine. Inspired by this young man’s passion for food, I asked him to write about his island experience for Tasting Kauai.

It was an easy decision for me to move to Kauai. My parents had recently moved and I hadn’t spent time with them for a couple of years so it was really a no brainer. As a foodie, what drew me to the island were the alien-like fruits and vegetables that at that point were a mystery to me. Continue Reading →

Rambutan Season on Kauai is Wrapping Up

By on March 12, 2012 in From Seed

Wintertime in Kauai is playful, lush and wet. Thousands of humpback whales migrate to the coast. They are seen from the shoreline, sending plumes of water into the air, breaching, or slapping their fins on the water. From the majestic Na Pali coast, to the vegetation along the highway, everything is a vivid green. It’s as if you’re in a movie, and the colors are turned way up.

 

And it rains.

A lot. Continue Reading →

Harvesting Heart of Palm in Kauai

By on February 28, 2012 in From Seed
The stalk of the heart of palm is layered with immature leaves. Daniel Lane photo

The stalk of the heart of palm is layered with immature leaves. Daniel Lane photo

My friends from Colorado are visiting Kauai for the first time. The other day I asked them if they knew what heart of palm is. The gave their heads a confident shake in the affirmative, but when it came to details I got a blank stare from one, and “Fruit?” from the other. Most for of us, including me, can’t visualize the plant that it comes from.

Of course, most of us have heard of it, maybe even put it on our plate at the salad bar. Typically, it’s the canned version, which is a flaccid representation of the fresh version.

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Growing, Buying and Cooking Bell Peppers on Kauai

By on February 20, 2012 in From Seed

Typically, tomatoes, summer squash, melons and bell peppers are hard to grow on Kauai. The fruit fly “stings” them, borrows inside, and lays eggs. The only evidence is a small, inward dent. Other than that, the fruit looks perfectly edible. But when you cut into it, it’s either teeming with eggs, or rotten. Continue Reading →

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