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Our food and culture blog articles from our travels around the United States.

I’m Letting Them Bleed Out In the Jungle

June 16, 2014 by Nat & Tim 24 Comments

bananas

Bleed Out In The Jungle “I’m letting them bleed out in the jungle”, I never thought I’d hear Tim utter those words but there he was, sitting on a tractor with a saws-all in one hand and a smile on his face. He had just cut down a few stalks of bananas and was letting […]

Filed Under: Hawaii, Maui, United States, US, USA Tagged With: bananas, Hawaii, Maui

SOM TOM aka GREEN PAPAYA SALAD

June 10, 2014 by Tim 7 Comments

Som Tom

Weird and gangly All over the island of Maui you will spot trees loaded with papaya. A weird and gangly looking tree capable of growing tall to reach the sun and producing large clusters of fruit, papaya grows effortlessly in the tropics. Modest fruit It is modest in flavour but has lots of hidden uses and […]

Filed Under: #honestfoodtales, Hawaii, recipe, recipes, Thailand, United States, US, USA Tagged With: food, green papaya salad, som tom, Soups and Salads

CHEESE-LESS CHEESECAKE and MACADAMIA CRUMBLE

June 6, 2014 by Nat & Tim 4 Comments

cheese-less avocado cheesecake

So much guacamole We’ve been on Maui for over a month now, taking care of our friends’ two properties, animals and fruit trees.  We’ve been dealing with a surplus of bananas and avocados.  Needless to say, we’re trying to use as much as we can but there is so much guacamole and banana bread a […]

Filed Under: Hawaii, recipe, recipes Tagged With: avocado cheesecake, cheese-less cheesecake, Sweets

SWEET AND SPICY MACADAMIA NUTS

June 3, 2014 by Tim 5 Comments

Enjoy our nuts If you’re like us, you might enjoy a beer or two once in a while, especially during the summer. And what goes better with a good beer than nuts? Our nuts are sweet and spicy and they go down as easily as a cold pint on a sweltering hot day. We hope you […]

Filed Under: Hawaii, recipe, recipes Tagged With: beer nuts, Hawaii, macadamia nuts, Starters and Mains, sweet and spicy

Only In New York

October 14, 2013 by Nat & Tim 2 Comments

naked cowboy, new york, manhattan

No, we’re not in New York.  Earlier this week someone sent me a link to a video of an ad campaign put on by Virgin Atlantic.  Virgin Atlantic set up a luxury bench on Broadway in the Flatiron district, treating people who sat on it to first class service (watch the video below to see people’s reactions), […]

Filed Under: New York, United States, US, USA

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