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For weeks I’ve been wanting to make scones. Just plain old, traditional (very proper) scones. You know the kind? You find them in England and Scotland – and sometimes, if you’re lucky, at your local patisserie. We live on a very non-proper island, in the middle of the pacific ocean. Our home rests in the side of a dormant volcano at about 1600 feet from sea level, (though our views of that sea level are quite fantastic). I am always hesitant to try out baking recipes for the first time, in a new oven, unless I have a whole bunch of time and willing victims, of course. This morning was just such a time. We have a houseful of guests and family members – plus, it’s Sunday! What better day to bring something out fresh from the oven?

Most scones in our country, (that’s the US – BTW), are loaded (more…)

We, now, live in a place without a Trader Joe’s. Shocking, isn’t it? Though I know some of my east coast pals feel me and appreciate this factoid. It is truly torturous at times, (especially when I really want their vege-broth bullion packets or crave that soyrizo only they carry). If, like us, you live somewhere off the beaten, (shipping), path and want to try something a bit different – these will fit that regular old Thursday night pasta sit down.

We love to toss these with a simple broccoli, basil, garlic topper – and loads of cheese, of course. Or with langostino, garlic, Italian parsley and cheese.

These gluten-free noodles are super easy to make and they keep for about a week (store em in the fridge).

The best part is, when you’ve finished prepping them, it only takes a few minutes to cook! I love that fresh pasta (more…)

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Coconut milk is not the watery stuff in the coconut- that’s coconut water. Coconut milk, which you could make at home if you were patient and wanted to spend too much money, (because unlike us here in Hawaii, not everyone has access to fresh coconuts), is made by grinding the meat into a slurry with a certain amount of water. Coconut cream is the same with less water. Good coconut milk will separate in the can, just like milk used to. There will be dense cream at the bottom, thick milk for most of the can, and water at the top. You can use each for their own special applications, or mix them together to homogenize. Do not buy coconut milk, or any asian food, in the supermarket, unless you are some kind of butt clown. You will pay ten times as much for crappy stuff. Go find an Asian (more…)

Several of our readers have requested a reprint of this recipe from last year. So here it comes. You know, I never fully believed that you could make a cake without flour until I tried a few that rattled my cake-like cage. So, if you really enjoy a deep, dark, decadent delight, this is the recipe for you. Here we have a yummy grain free/gluten free cake that one of my fellow mama bloggers turned me onto. I’ve made a few, (okay more than a few), changes to make it how we like it, but the concept is the same! Bon Appetit!

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

I use my Kitchen Aid (lilac colored) stand mixer. Mix the below ingredients together, however best suits you.

♦♦ 1/2 cup peanut butter
♦♦ 1/2 cup almond butter
♦♦ 6 Tbsp salted organic butter
♦♦ 1/4 cup honey, more as needed (start with (more…)

Traditional approaches to solving learning problems will take a student who has been in a classroom all day, a fatigued learner, who is not able to learn with methods being taught, and try to teach that student more of what didn’t work all day. This is insane! For progress to be made, the student needs to be taught in a different way.

Have you ever felt like you are ready to EXPLODE inside from the energy you have swirling around? The desire to create something SO BIG, so monumental; something that will manifest into a change for the better? I am there, inside of it right now and having a really hard time focusing this energy. Why are there still hungry people in our world yet our government has silos of foodstuff wasting away… or the government is so busy policing whether or not the Hawaiian people can prepare Taro in their own traditional way that their poorest are going without a decent meal. Food may feed our bodies… but it is the people who feed our souls. Don’t let another person go hungry if you are able to help.

1 out of 6 children worry where their next meal is coming from. That is more than 12 million children in America (more…)

The Buddy Fruits don’t need any type of refrigeration until after you open them….then you would want to keep them refrigerated for up to 24 hours. I think that is just fabulous because it makes them great for diaper bags, school lunch boxes and for snacks while on the go. They do not recommend giving the pouch to your child under age 3, which is sort of funny to me because who else will eat pureed fruit in a bag?

Am I still an ‘Ehh. Pee.’ parent if sometimes I pass out at the wheel and swerve into mainstream parenting? Does it have to be ‘You’re AP.’ or, you’re not?

I know, that on the inside, I consider myself to be a totally AP parent – and believe this issue is certainly illustrative of how one may learn that one’s ‘personal needs’ are not always consistent with societal convictions or of ones personal opinions in a previous incarnation. Opinions vary depending on where one stands. Or strolls.

I am very responsive and attentive to my childrens needs, and have been for many MANY (MANY) moons now. I breastfeed, child-led wean, co-sleep and still pick up the babe often (in spite of the arguing I get from my lower lumbar region! ) plus I carried her in a sling. She got heavy, and I’m old.

Admittedly, there are times when I (more…)