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Saturdays with Maggy
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All you need is love...and good food and great art and time to travel and a fulfilling career and...well, actually I don't know. Come along with me as I try to figure out exactly what life is all about. This blog details my obsessions with love, food, and teaching. With, of course, some other fun distractions, like navigating a life in Hawaii. Enjoy!
#107541 in All , #1025 in Food & Drink

Easiest Peanut Butter Candy Ever

My friend Rachel put in a request for a peanut butter cookie recipe just as I was making these candies. Even though its not a cookie, Id call that perfect timing.Time does have a knack for being perf...

2 days ago

Kona: the worlds best coffee

We have a very special Sustainable Sunday post today. Were going to discuss all things coffee, since right here in Kona, Hawaii some of the worlds best is farmed.  Todays adventure was selected ...

6 days ago

5 Reasons to Love Life

Nootropics1. School is out for summer. Today was the last day for students and teachers in Hawaii and we are loving it. Looking forward to a break full of beach days, New York awesomeness, cooking ga...

25 may 12

Sustainable Sunday: Sweet Potato Salad

For those that are new here, every Sunday I post a recipe for a sustainable meal, made from locally sourced ingredients that is. It has been great fun hearing about the Sustainable Sunday meals you a...

20 may 12

Sustainable Sunday: Breakfast for Mom

Mom lives in Washington. Im here in Hawaii. If you were here mom, this Sustainable Sunday breakfast would be all yours. Kau coffee, papaya, soft-boiled egg. This photo does not give the deep magenta ...

13 may 12

Read, Eat, Sip, Repeat

We all have our rituals when were sick. Mine include eating lots of ramen because my body starts craving carbs. Plus the hot broth helps soothe the throat. Right? No. In real life Top Ramen (only the...

12 may 12

Meatballs for New Friends

This is me with my new friend, Kelly. We have a little story to tell you about this small world of ours.Kelly and I both listen to the Joy the Baker podcast. (You should, too by the way). Joy and Tra...

10 may 12

Kau Coffee Brigadeiros (another winning recipe!)

Yesterday was the Triple C Recipe Contest for the Kau Coffee Festival held at the Kau Coffee Mill in Pahala. Participants entered their best recipes for cookies, candy, and crackers inspired by Kau c...

08 may 12

Sustainable Sunday: Liver & Onions

Last week we discussed the powers of vitamin B12. The richest sources of B12 come from meat, eggs, and milk. And the absolute stand-out source is a little something called liver. My local grocery (KT...

06 may 12

Brought to you by...

This blog comes to you out of creative desire, hunger, and daily inspiration. The ideas shared on this blog definitely do not come out of the center of my brain, they are fed by the wonderful work of...

03 may 12

Sustainable Sunday: Smashed Potatoes

This week our Sustainable Sunday recipe comes from Rosanne, a friend and fellow teacher who has a passion for cooking and eating fresh and locally grown food. She so kindly took the time to snap some...

29 apr 12

How To Get More Energy

Fish Chowder (recipe below)Im going to let you in on a little trick. Many of you probably already know about this, but since this was news to me recently, it only felt right to pass the info along.Ea...

28 apr 12

The Picture of Health (Wordless Wednesday)

Weeknight salad:Farm fresh broccoli, sweet potatoes, lettuce and tomatoes with garden asparagus and chard. Topped with a little goat cheese and black pepper. 

25 apr 12

Sustainable Sunday: Veal Sliders with Onion Rings

Happy Earth Day everyone! We celebrated the Earth on this lovely Sustainable Sunday with veal sliders and onion rings.A couple weeks back we made our way up to the Waimea farmers markets where we can...

22 apr 12

Sun-Dried Tomato Pesto with Romanesco Broccoli

Today one of my students was writing a short paragraph about whether or not he agreed with hunting.He firmly believed that hunting and killing animals would "harm nature" because there would ...

20 apr 12

Sustainable Sunday: Turnip Gratin

On this lovely Sustainable Sunday Im watching Harold and Maude, pondering over cooking up a coffee version of these brigadeiros, and making a completely locally sourced meal from the turnips I found ...

16 apr 12

Sausage, Potato & Lima Bean Soup with Dumplings

Dumplings are a source of disagreement in our family. My grandma uses to make flat, noodle like dumplings that we all loved but have not been able to duplicate. My mom made fluffy, biscuit-like dumpl...

13 apr 12

Sustainable Easter Sunday

So this post is coming to you a day late this week, but there was no way I had the energy to post after our family Easter dinner last night.We started things off right with my new signature drink, th...

10 apr 12

Spiked Easter Eggs

This week I started obsessing over making an adult version of easter eggs, sort of like those tiny bottle shaped chocolates with liquor inside.So I rounded up some hollow chocolate eggs. Now, I could...

06 apr 12

Sustainable Sunday - Leek Frittata & Salad with Papaya Dressing

Have you heard of Meatless Monday? A lot of people around the world are dedicated to reducing their meat intake by nixing it one day per week in order to save money, the earth, and their waistlines.E...

02 apr 12

Five Things I Love Right Now

If you listen to the Joy the Baker Podcast (and if youre not, you should) youd know that they assigned some homework for their blogging listeners. Heres mine!1. Breadfruit. Ive cooked with it a few t...

01 apr 12

Coco Banana Cocktails

And now for my husbands favorite funny of all time...Do you know what we call days like this is Hawaii?Thursday.Boom.Coco Banana Cocktailsserves 23 oz (shots) golden rum2 frozen bananas, sliced1/2 cu...

30 mar 12

Ditch the SPAM: Eating Local in Hawaii

Most of the food consumed in Hawaii is shipped in from the US mainland and points beyond. Itsno secret why goods are so expensive on the islands. Buying and eating local can do a lot of good for the ...

26 mar 12 1 person likes this

When Pigs Fly

Bacon. Pancetta. Andouille sausage. Treats Id given up due to a commitment to eat as much locally sourced ingredients as possible.Until now guys, until now.The Big Island officially has charcute...

24 mar 12

Apples and Eggs (wordless Wednesday)

Apples and Eggs recipe by Simply BreakfastThis tasted like French toast without the toast. Ok, no more words.

22 mar 12

Award-winning Shrimp Poke

Im very excited to share with you that my Paniolo Shrimp Poke was the overall amateur winner as well as the cooked category winner in Sam Choys Keauhou Poke Contest. I even got to meet Sam Choy ...

20 mar 12

Fresh Ginger Tea

Yesterday was awkward. I went to the dentist for a cleaning and my hygienist was a nice young lady about my age.Every other hygienist Ive had has been my moms age. So I thought, cool, someone chat wi...

18 mar 12

Award-winning Miso Sesame Dressing

Last weekend I entered a salad dressing contest at the Taste of Kalo in Kapaau. Kapaau is a small town in North Kohala on the island of Hawaii. The Taste of Kalo (kalo = taro) was put on by Community...

15 mar 12

Vote for my recipe on Iron Baker Blog Edition

Aloha! Please take a moment to vote for my Caramel and White Chocolate Sammys over on the 20 Going on 80 blog. Just click on the image above to get there and vote or click here: Iron Baker Challenge....

13 mar 12

Bite Your (Beef) Tongue!

Dont freak out. Just look at these tacos and breathe.First of all, I need you to know that the vegetarian train has officially derailed for now. This is because I keep finding wonderfully fresh and l...

12 mar 12

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