Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Friday, April 25, 2008
west side story
This week we drove all the way over to the west side of the island. There's a part of Kauai that doesn't have any roads, instead it has big cliffs and hippies living in hovels. Sometimes we see the hippies if they venture far far out of their hovels to say go to walmart and buy water purification tablets or tarps or something. Anyway so in order to get to the west side of the island we have to drive on the small two lane highway all around the island, even though we live on the north shore. It's fine though because the island is beautiful and it's nice to drive and drive on a open, empty highway. 
(shots from the car)
The west side is extremely different from the north shore. The sun is so bright there it shines and shines until everything is bleached and glinty, and it's dry so the red dirt soil covers everything. It kind of feels like you just walked into a soft fire of sorts. The culture is so different too. The west side feels kind of like a mix between Mississippi and the Philippines, lots of agriculture and ranching. We happened upon this idyllic little street (broad tree lined boulevard--from the 50's?) with houses for the sugar can workers (foremen?) and the sugar mill still pouring out sugar and smoke at the end of the road by the ocean.
sugar cane lane...
tennis anyone?
the mill
phoenix
(shots from the car)
The west side is extremely different from the north shore. The sun is so bright there it shines and shines until everything is bleached and glinty, and it's dry so the red dirt soil covers everything. It kind of feels like you just walked into a soft fire of sorts. The culture is so different too. The west side feels kind of like a mix between Mississippi and the Philippines, lots of agriculture and ranching. We happened upon this idyllic little street (broad tree lined boulevard--from the 50's?) with houses for the sugar can workers (foremen?) and the sugar mill still pouring out sugar and smoke at the end of the road by the ocean.
sugar cane lane...
tennis anyone?
the mill
phoenix
eat your vegetables
Let's see... our vegetables.
Our main goal each week is to eat the ridiculously honest and carefully grown (no gmo, no pesticides, none of any of that nonsense that somehow has found it's way into way too much of the food we eat) vegetables we get from our c.s.a. (community supported agriculture)
Just sprout, tend, pluck and we pick them up in a pineapple crate each week. The crate overflows with the brightest, juiciest, most prana filled vegetables I've ever seen... and we try and try to eat them all.
A. heard a nutritionist on the community radio station here, (the community radio station is pretty far out as you might imagine) and her bumper sticker said "eat more kale".
We also got a daikon radish, which I've never seen whole before, it's huge, like bigger than 4 carrots together. I was totally at a loss for what to do with it... but we've pretty much figured out with any vegetable that we can either eat it raw, or put it in a stir fry. I did a little of both with the radish. Here's the chard I stir fried with it.
mmmm... greens.
but potato chips are good too.
Our main goal each week is to eat the ridiculously honest and carefully grown (no gmo, no pesticides, none of any of that nonsense that somehow has found it's way into way too much of the food we eat) vegetables we get from our c.s.a. (community supported agriculture)
Just sprout, tend, pluck and we pick them up in a pineapple crate each week. The crate overflows with the brightest, juiciest, most prana filled vegetables I've ever seen... and we try and try to eat them all.
A. heard a nutritionist on the community radio station here, (the community radio station is pretty far out as you might imagine) and her bumper sticker said "eat more kale".
We also got a daikon radish, which I've never seen whole before, it's huge, like bigger than 4 carrots together. I was totally at a loss for what to do with it... but we've pretty much figured out with any vegetable that we can either eat it raw, or put it in a stir fry. I did a little of both with the radish. Here's the chard I stir fried with it.
mmmm... greens.
but potato chips are good too.
Saturday, April 19, 2008
oh yes, the eggs
The eggs we get from the little farm on the hill are just incredible, they are delicious and a wonderful shade of delicate sea foam greenish blue. We enjoy them with crispy toast and jam.
two by two
Our friend has the world's most amazing little farm on top of a hill in Kilauea, when we went this time he'd gotten two baby goats that were only two weeks old!
they are so sweet and soft.
Love birds from the start! Can you see the baby rooster in the back? They have the most amazing bouffants at this age.
Oh my little loves, how I wish you'd be my friends for life.
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