Aloha Friday Recipe: Watermelon Salad

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Ingredients

Salad
6 cups mixed field greens
1/2 cup thinly-sliced red onion
1/2 cup carrot curls (or shreds)
1/4 cup diced, toasted macadamia nuts
1/2 cup crumbled gorgonzola cheese
seedless watermelon

Raspberry Vinaigrette
1/4 cup seedless raspberry jam
1/4 cup strawberry purée (fresh or frozen)
1/4 cup apple cider vinegar
1/4 cup balsamic vinegar
1-1/4 cups salad oil (canola or vegetable)
salt and pepper to taste

In a small bowl, whisk all ingredients. Set aside. Yield: 2 -1/4 cups.

Preparation

Salad Greens
Toss greens in large bowl with just enough raspberry vinaigrette to coat the greens.
(Store leftover vinaigrette in refrigerator.) Divide greens into liberal portions on 4 plates.
Garnish greens with gorgonzola cheese, toasted macadamia nuts, red onion & carrot curls.
Remove rind from watermelon, cut into wedges and arrange around greens.

Recipe courtesy The Beach House Restaurant.

Four Foods on Friday 77

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Looking for a fun foodie meme to participate in for your blog? Stop over by Val’s place, there’s still time to play for tomorrow’s deadline!

#1. Anele’s question. Do you have a natural ability to cook or do you feel you just “get by?”
I have a natural ability according to everyone I cook for. One of my friends constantly gets on me as to why I’m not a caterer but who needs that stress? LOL But I do love to cook and do stuff from the very basic to somewhat elaborate. I have an entire cupboard dedicated to spices.

#2. Why do you buy the size eggs that you buy?
Large. I usually buy the 18 pack.

#3. Do you have any cooking “rules”?
I guess use and/or freeze any leftovers. I don’t believe in wasting food especially since it costs so much. You take something like burgers and brats cooked on the grill, food save those bad boys and you’ve got that great taste any ol’ time! (Note how I made “food save” a verb?)

#4. Fresh corn. Yellow, white or bicolored?
Yellow is usually what is most widely available here.

Sweet organic treats at Parker Ranch this Friday

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Friday, May 29th: By popular demand, Volcano Island Honey Company, LLC presents their certified 100% organic honey! Parker Ranch is pleased to have this unique product available for purchase at the Parker Ranch Store. There is a very short window of time to harvest this delectable honey, and also a limited number of kiawe trees, which creates the necessity of exact timing in collecting this very rare honey. They have two flavors to choose from, Lehua Honey and White Honey. Volcano Island Honey Company offers all of their honeys in their pure, natural form, unheated and unfiltered. Join them from 9am-1pm, to sample a little taste of heaven.

Celebrate the first annual Maui Brewers Festival!

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FIRST ANNUAL MAUI BREWERS FESTIVAL
Saturday, May 30 Events Lawn 2:30- 6:30 pm
Presented by Kona Brewing Company, a new event to highlight the food n’ brews of the Pacific.
Be a part of this inaugural fun event to help the MACC celebrate its 15th Birthday! Get your tickets Early!

With (20) Brewers serving (40) Brews from Hawaii and around the globeEntertainment includes:
Island Rumours Band featuring Rick Veto!
Erin Smith & the Throwdowns
Off Tomorrow
and Celtic Tigers

For a complete listing of brews and food vendors click here

Tickets: General Audience $50 advance. ($75 day-of-event) Includes 8-4 oz. pours in a keepsake commemorative mug, and grazing freely among the numerous pupu offerings. General admission attendees are welcome to bring lawn chairs or mats, and enjoy the music as they would for The MACC’s annual Ki Ho‘alu (Slack Key) and Ukulele Festivals.

Premium $150 ticket ($175 day-of) which allows access to the Kona Brewing Company VIP Liquid Aloha Lounge, featuring wait service in shaded seating, complimentary parking, and commemorative T-shirt and mug. BUY TICKETS

Hawaiian Word of the Week

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Black- ‘Ele’ele

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”.

Aloha Friday Recipe: Hoisin Sesame Dressing

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Servings: 1

Ingredients:
1/2 cup hoisin sauce
1/2 tsp. dry mustard
1 tsp. fresh garlic
1-1/2 tsp. sambal paste
2-1/4 tbsp. white vinegar
1 tbsp. fresh ginger root, minced
1/2 cup salad oil
1 tbsp. sesame oil

Instructions:
In a food processor put all ingredients except oils and blend for 2 minutes. Slowly add sesame oil and salad oils, blend for one minute.

Recipe courtesy Gaylords Kilohana.

Four Foods on Friday #76

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In the mood to participate in a fun food meme? Stop over to Val’s place and post your answers on your blog if you’ve got one! Happy Memorial Day weekend everyone!

#1. Do you celebrate Memorial Day with a picnic, cookout, road trip or some other way?
We used to do a family cookout but have kind of gotten away from those. Now it’s usually just the hubby and I breaking in the grill for the season.

#2. What are staples at your summer time cookouts?
Always burgers, baked beans and BBQ chips with Kroger dip. It’s what I grew up on. We usually have turkey brats too. Luckily I have that Food Saver so whatever leftovers we have I can throw into the microwave at a later date to get the same grilled taste without having to fire it up.

#3. What drink do you find most refreshing on a hot summer day?
Lemonade always tastes best during the summer even though I don’t drink it often. Usually Country Time but Simply Lemonade is really good, it’s got massive pucker power! Just can’t do pulpy lemonade though. YUCK!

#4. Share a recipe for a picnic side dish.
One of my favorite things and most complimented sides at a cookout here is my grilled corn. It’s really super simple. Take the corn still in the husk and soak it in water for about 20-30 minutes. Wrap each ear in foil and put them on the upper part/warming rack of your grill while you cook everything. When you undo the husks, the corn is perfectly steamed and sugary sweet. My uncle was amazed at them and ate 2 or 3 ears one year! LOL You can also get some butter, parmesan cheese, a little Italian seasoning and coarse pepper and mash it all together, rub them on the ears and close the husks back up and cover with foil for a more “gourmet” touch! YUM!

Latest Hawaii Geocaches (5/20)

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Looking for some fun caches to get this Memorial Day weekend? Here are a few to program into your GPS including a rare Molokai cache! To find out more about Geocaching and how to get started, click here.

Ka makana i Po’olau (Molokai)

Kupukupu Hakahaka Iki (Big Island)

Mothers Day Re-Opened (Big Island)

CS Was Here (Oahu)

Welcome to … Wa’ahila Ridge (Oahu)

New security regulations for your flight

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A new security regulation just went into effect this week where part of the security screening process involves making sure that the name on your airline ticket matches EXACTLY to that on your government issued photo id (drivers license/state ID). This is to compare the info to their no fly list. While they say that the use of a middle initial/name that appears on your ID but not on your ticket won’t effect the process, I would suggest in any future reservations you make the reservation under the name as it appears on your drivers license, middle initial/name and all to avoid any confusion and possible delays. In August, the 2nd part of this new security measure will go into effect where you will need to enter your birthday and gender when booking your flight.

To read more about this in detail, click here.