I’d like to solve the puzzle, yeah?

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Pat and Vanna are making their way back to the islands at the end of the summer and you could be a part of it! Wheel of Fortune will be taping September 12th, 13th, 15th and 16th at the Hilton Waikoloa Village on the Big Island. If you’d like information on tickets and taping, keep watching KHON2 and/or visit their website and look for the Wheel of Fortune logo.

If you’d like to be a contestant and you’re 18 or older, they are looking for “enthusiastic” islanders. To find out more about how to spin the wheel, click here.

If you’re a husband and wife team and would like to play as a couple, click here.

Aloha Friday Cocktail: Blue Hawaii

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1 oz light rum
1 cherry
2 oz pineapple juice
1 oz Blue Curacao liqueur
1 oz cream of coconut
1 slice pineapple

Blend light rum, blue curacao, pineapple juice, and cream of coconut with one cup ice in an electric blender at high speed. Pour contents into a highball glass. Decorate with the slice of pineapple and a cherry.

Recipe courtesy Drinks Mixer.com

Four Foods on Friday #31

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It’s Four Foods on Friday time. If you’d like to participate, you’ve got one more day, just stop by Val’s place.

Here’s this week’s questions:

#1. What is your favorite food that is cooked on the barbeque?
I suppose I’m pretty traditional…burgers, chicken, steak, etc.

#2. What veggies, if any, do you cook on the barbeque? Definitely sweet corn. You soak them in water for an hour with the husks still on, then wrap them in foil and put on the top rack when you turn on your grill. When your meat is done the corn will be done and it’s 100x more tasty than cooking it without them. YUM! (Of course butter and Hawaiian salt are mandatory!)

#3. Tell us a little about your barbeque habits. Who grills, how often, what months, etc. The man usually grills but he’s about to get his spatula revoked. He’s not a born griller and has returned burgers with hunks of meat missing due to not oiling the grill. So I told him he’s on probation! LOL We don’t grill often, maybe twice a year if we’re lucky during the summer but I’d like to change that.

#4. Share a barbeque recipe.

Grilled Banana Smores

Be sure to use firm, ripe bananas. Super-ripe bananas will be hard to skewer and may fall through the grill rack.

Ingredients
3 small bananas, cut into 1-inch pieces
12 (0.3-ounce) individually wrapped squares dark chocolate
12 graham cracker sheets, halved

Preparation
Thread banana pieces onto 3 (8-inch) metal skewers. Place skewers on a grill rack coated with cooking spray. Grill, covered with grill lid, over medium-high heat (350° to 400°) 5 minutes or until soft. Place 1 square dark chocolate onto 1 graham cracker half. Top with hot banana pieces and another graham cracker half. Repeat with remaining ingredients.

Yield
Makes 12 servings
Recipe courtesy Coastal Living

Four legged friends enjoy dishes with aloha

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Do you have a pet with aloha spirit? Then they’ll love the new pet bowls from The Little Grass Shack. Perfect for the pet with a hearty appetite (or large thirst), this rugged, full-sized stoneware bowl overflows with charm. With a wide diameter of 7.25″ and standing a lofty 3″ tall for the large bowl and 6″ diameter and standing 2.5″ tall for the small bowl, there’s more than enough room to satisfy your furbaby!

More designs to come so be sure to check back!

Will road projects have you sitting in traffic?

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With the astronomical price of gas, a stop and go road project can put even more of a pinch in the gas budget of locals and visitors alike. The Honolulu Advertiser has just released major island road projects so you can plan your routes to work or your favorite island attraction.

Oahu Road Projects

Kauai Road Projects

Maui Road Projects

Big Island Road Projects

A reminder, you can go to HawaiiGasPrices.com to get a heads up on where you can get the cheapest gas on the island. Currently you’ll pay under $4.00 on Oahu but on Maui some areas are close to $4.50 per gallon.

Hawaiian word of the week

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Makai-(muh-kye)- Toward the ocean

The alphabet contains 12 letters: 5 vowels (a, e, i, o, u) and 7 consonants (h, k, l, m, n, p, w). To simplify pronunciation, sound consonants as in English and break up words so they are easy to say (ie- Humuhumunukunukuapua’a would be pronounced humu-humu-nuku-nuku-apu-a-a)

Pronounce vowels as follows:

a - a in above; e - e in set; i - ee in see; o - o in some; u - oo in moon.

Pronounce vowels marked by a glottal stop (`) quickly ie- o`o sounds like oh-oh! in English.

Stress rising dipthongs (ae, ai, ao, au, oi, ou, eu, ei) on the first letter and end with a short e, i, o or u. ie- oi sounds like oy in soy, ending with a short “i”.

Memorial Weekend Geocaching

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This long weekend is a great excuse to get out and do some geocaching! There are some new ones including a few neighbor island caches. So get out and get caching!

Groom a Wookie (Big Island)

One for the Canadians (Maui)

Ka`iwa Ridge Boulder Cache (Oahu)

Rats Among the Cacti!! (Maui)

Do You Like Fish? (Oahu)

As always, if you would like to get started in Geocaching and not sure where to begin, click here for some FAQ’s. Below are some GPS’s to get you started. We don’t have the newest gadget but we started with the Garmin Etrex which is very basic (good, inexpensive starter to see if it’s something you’ll stick with) and upgraded a few years ago to the Magellan SporTrak Map which works great for our needs.

Aloha Friday Recipe: Kona Brewing Crab Cakes

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Ingredients:

1 lb Crab
1/4 C Maui onion, diced
1/4 C Red bell pepper, diced
1/2 C Hearts of palm, diced
1 C Panko
1/2 C May’
1/2 Tsp Kosher salt
1Tbsp Fresh lemon juice

1 C All purpose flour
2 C Panko
4 Eggs, beaten until smooth

Mix first 8 ingredients in a bowl. Form mixture into cakes approx 2 inches in diameter. Place flour, eggs and Panko into 3 separate bowls. To bread, place each cake one at a time first into the flour then the egg and finally the Panko. Heat a non-stick pan over medium heat. Cook the cakes for 3 minutes on each side or until hot all the way through. Serve with your favorite sauce.

Recipe courtesy SureSave.com

Four Foods on Friday #30

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Here’s this week’s Four Foods on Friday:

#1. What’s your favorite white beverage? Milk…skim please. Whole is like drinking cottage cheese slightly less chunky.

#2. What’s your favorite white gravy, sauce, condiment, dressing or topping? I suppose parmesan peppercorn ranch dressing and mozzarella cheese as a topping.

#3. What’s your favorite white item from the refrigerated section? French onion dip from Kroger and you dip some cauliflower in it and you’ve got a white summertime delight!

#4. Share a recipe for something white.

It’s not my recipe but so I’m contributing A recipe, here’s one for White Chocolate Chip Macadamia Nut Cookies. Add a scoop of vanilla ice cream and cool whip for a white dessert.

Man made “lava” gives homeowners a creative option

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In looking for different, unique things we wanted to “bookmark” for our future home on the Big Island, I came across Pacific Gunite’s website. While they specialize in swimming pools and water tanks, they also specialize in a really cool process which allows you to be able to have the look and feel of real hardened lava which they call “lava-crete.” They take molds from actual lava flows and use it to make anything from patio pavers to pool surrounds to fireplace facades. I haven’t used them or anything so if you have and would like to leave your experience here, feel free. But I thought their work was too unique not to share!