Aloha Friday Recipe: Spicy Macadamia Noodles

Ingredients:

3/4 cup chopped macadamia nuts, lightly toasted
1/4 cup lightly packed cilantro leaves
3 scallions, chopped
3 tablespoons sugar
2 tablespoons rice vinegar
1 tablespoon sesame oil
1 teaspoon chopped garlic
1 teaspoon chopped fresh ginger
1/2 teaspoon sambal oelek
1/4 cup soy sauce
8 ounces spaghetti, cooked in boiling water until al dente then drained

Directions:
In the bowl of a food processor, combine macadamia nuts, cilantro, scallions, sugar, rice vinegar, sesame oil, garlic, ginger, and sambal oelek and process until smooth. With motor running, add soy sauce and process until thoroughly combined. Pour mixture into a large serving bowl. Add the hot spaghetti and toss well. Serve immediately. Serves 4-6

Recipe courtesy KauaiMenu.com

Wood products abound Friday at Parker Ranch

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Gonna be on the Big Island tomorrow? Swing by the Parker Ranch for this Friday’s special guests!

Friday, May 16th: Park Ranch welcomes Claire from Island Imports for the first time. As one of Hawaii’s finest and oldest import and gift companies, they offer a large selection of products such as: wooden salad bowls, trays, bowls, exotic wood products, wooden dinner plates, serving trays, wooden serving bowls, kitchen accessories, compartment trays, forks and spoons, salad sets, and much more, all at affordable prices. Each elegant piece was designed in Hawaii and selected from the highest quality native hardwoods found only in the Islands of the South Pacific. Come see their wide selection of woods and pick up that perfect gift for someone special. 9am-1pm.

Upcoming May events at the Maui Arts & Cultural Center

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Hundreds of Maui dancers have been pushing their bodies to the limit in preparation for one of the island’s most impressive dance concerts: MAPA’s annual Spring Extravaganza 2009.

Dancers of all ages will present four dance concerts over two days at Maui Arts & Cultural Center’s Castle Theater. On Saturday, May 23, dancers will strut their stuff in the Jazz, Tap & Hip Hop Revue at 3:00 pm. On Sunday, May 24, the ballerinas will present A Midsummer Night’s Dream, a whimsical, enchanting ballet the whole family will love.

New to the line-up this year is MOVES, a dance concert featuring MAPA’s top dancers and performance groups. These dancers will present two extraordinary evening performances of original choreography in the style of MAPA’s Pieces dance concerts. MOVES runs Saturday, May 23 and Sunday, May 24 at 7:30 pm.

Tickets for Jazz, Tap & Hip Hop Revue and A Midsummer Night’s Dream are $12 (plus applicable facility fees). Tickets for MOVES are $15 for adults and $12 for kids 12 and under (plus applicable facility fees). Tickets are available at the MACC box office. Call 242-SHOW or visit www.mauiarts.org.

For more information about MAPA and its programs, visit www.mauiacademy.org

To buy tickets scroll to buy link below.

Jazz, Tap & Hip Hop Revue
Saturday, May 23 Castle Theater, 3:00 pm
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MOVES, Dance Concert
Saturday & Sunday, May 23-24 Castle Theater, 7:30 pm
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Ballet: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Sunday, May 24 Castle Theater, 3:00 pm
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Pre-show food & beverages available starting at 5:30 pm in the courtyard.

For the keiki…

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Looking for some activities to keep the keikis (kids) busy? Here’s a great site to play word games, puzzles, dot to dots, coloring pages, get ecards and such. It’s called OwlKids, so go check it out!

Hawaiian Word of the Week

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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: Lilikoi Party Sheet Cake

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Ingredients:
1 cup butter
2 cups sugar
4 eggs
3 cups flour
1 tsp baking powder
½ tsp cinnamon
1 cup lilikoi pulp (fresh or frozen concentrate)
½ cup lilikoi juice
red coloring to tint the cake pink

Preparation:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Cream butter and sugar together and add eggs one by one, beating well. Stir the baking powder into the flour. Mix the lilikoi pulp and juice. Add flour and liquids in alternate portions to the creamed mixture and stir until blended. Pour into a greased and floured 13 by 9 inch cake pan. Bake for 30 minutes or until top of cake spring back when lightly pressed with finger. Frost with a butter cream frosting: Mix 1 cup softened butter, 2-½ cups powdered sugar, and just enough milk to make a creamy consistency.

Recipe courtesy of KauaiGoods.com

Four Foods on Friday #75

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Looking for a fun meme to participate in? Stop on by Val’s place and join the fun! There’s still time before tomorrow’s deadline!

#1. blueyes’ question. What’s your favorite seafood recipe?
I just like a good, simple dish like steamed Mahi Mahi. Get some foil, put a little cooking spray on it, squeeze on some lemon juice and fresh cracked pepper and maybe a little parsley and make a foil pocket. Cook it for 20 minutes on 400 and it’s meaty but falls apart with a fork. Excellent. A good seared scallop is always nice too when done correctly. Ooh and stuffed flounder! Who can forget shrimp of every kind! Oh and…

#2. Italian Ice. Like it, love it or leave it?
I can take it or leave it.

#3. What’s your favorite crunchy food? (anything – pickles, chips, fruit, etc.)
Island Princess Mac Nut Toffee Popcorn. OMG…sooooo good. I also like Claussen dill pickles now that you mention pickles!

#4. Have you ever eaten so much of something that you felt or got sick?
Who hasn’t?! We all overindulge from time to time. I’ve always felt sick but never actually urped. (Unless acid reflux counts) Now I have some friends that have gone on horrific binges and spent most of the night praying to the porcelain gods. I could never do that. I’m petrified of yakking!

Newest Hawaii caches (5/6)

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Looking to get in some geocaching in the islands? Here are some of the newest.

Wailua Falls (Erosional/Depositional Geology) (Kauai)

Black Sand Beach at Red Hill (Maui)

Kayakaholic (Big Island)

Snorkeling in a Volcano (Molokini) (Maui)

‘Iao Needle (Volcanic/Basalt & Erosion) (Maui)

Blue Light Special II (Oahu)

Ka’ala Kache (Oahu)

Save Lanai City!

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I was shocked to read that despite the beautiful old plantation town being on the National Trust for Historic Preservation that Castle & Cooke “submitted a three-part plan calling for the demolition or alteration of 15-20 historic buildings in Lanai City to make way for large-scale commercial development. The new development proposal includes an oversized, out-of-scale grocery store, dramatically incompatible with the historic downtown. The grocery store’s parking lot alone would consume an entire city block.” By the way an entire city block is HALF of the size of the city! Imagine half of the city you live in being a parking lot! That is why it is listed on the 11 Most Historic Places Endangered list. To see more about it, click here for video of the city and leave your feedback of your favorite memories from Lanai. To read more about where I saw this, you can click here.

If you have ever been to Lanai, you know the biggest draw to this quaint island is the fact that it is a sleepy town and not at all developed except for the resorts and gee, guess who owns those? If you’d like to let Castle and Cooke know how you feel, here’s their contact information:

Castle & Cooke Hawaii
E-mail: info@castlecookehawaii.com