KitchCraft

24/07/2024

Southern 🍑🍑🍑🍑Cobbler recipe
From South Carolina
Peaches from Langdon Day farm
Mendocino Co

04/07/2024

Available for catering NOW🍑🍑

Some recent culinary experiences here at Ridgewood Ranch cooking for the community, catering in Aptos for a wedding, and a weeklong retreat on Maui.
I am available for cooking gigs- events,
classes, personal chef. Contact me.

19/03/2024

Retreat dinner March 10th
Teaching guests how to make lau lau
Collecting Ti
Assembling lau
sharing a beautiful meal together

17/03/2024

Back in California
Baking with Mendocino Grain Project
Flours and grains
Sourdough Bread with Einkorn and Sonora wheats
Cookies with Raw rolled fresh oats.
The best oats ever - friends say -creamiest
I also make oatcakes with them.

03/03/2024

Preparing for upcoming retreat. Visiting Saturday Farmer's Market, Upcountry Maui. Here are some of my favorite farmers and food producers I source my goodness from.... I also purchase from Maui Food Hub, Pukalani Superette aka PukSup, Mana Foods and Island Grocery.

05/01/2024

I am back! 🎶🌺🌺🎶🦋🥗🌮🍱🥟🍆🍑
Living/cooking in Mendocino on a beautiful ranch 🌲🌲🌲🐄
where, this event is being hosted-
Ridgewood Ranch.
Im helping cater the weekend.

Jan 5 to Jan 7 Winter BDANC Meeting Fri, Jan 5, 2024 4:00 PM 16:00 Sun, Jan 7, 2024 12:30 PM 12:30 The Golden Rule Community at Ridgewood Ranch , (map) Google Calendar ICS BDANC WINTER GATHERING 2024Sowing Seeds for the Futurein Celebration of the 100th Anniversary of Biodynamicshosted by The Golden...

10/11/2022

Democracy is on my mind today after the election and how my food business is integrated into my political activism.

As I prepare my locavore canoe plant cuisine for a weeklong catering gig,
I reflect on all the work done by so many to fight for our democracy. Our voting rights, our rights as women to control our bodies. For the protection of waters, lands, air, displaced peoples, indigenous landback
movement; communities are organizing.

Here on Maui we are organizing. Working arduously to bring progressive change.

I thank each person for their participation, for my friends who won their elections; I offer my great gratitude.

I am blessed to feel my purpose served.
I am a community and a culinary activist.
Healing/ helping through food
Food sovereignty practices
And Talking story about true history.

So, I offer this poem today not written by me, but her voice is my voice.
Our measurements, the same.

November 9, 2022

So,
I will measure
one-and-a-half cups of water,
pour it into the cylinder pot, add a pinch of salt
and wait
for it to boil. Spill a half cup of sprouted steel cut oats into the tiny bubbles,
stir with the red silicone spatula,
lower the flame
to simmer,
set the timer for 15 minutes.
And wait.

Fill the kettle,
click the temperature button to white tea.
And wait.
When the red light turns blue, I’ll pour water
into the delicate blue and white tea pot with a wooden handle - the one that Jim gave to me,
heat the porcelain bowl, then transfer the water to the small dark green mottled cup – that someone’s hands shaped 25 years ago.
I’ll shake woody tea leaves into the empty tea strainer and steam them with 160 degree water.
And wait.

When the timer unsettles the quiet, I’ll nudge the thickened oats over fresh blueberries, walnuts and ground flax seeds in the chipped blue and off-white Vietri bowl – the one
I bought when Jimmy Carter was president,
stir it gently, slide the over-easy egg onto the mixture,
puncture the yolk to spread the deep orange-yellow through it.

I will empty the hot water from the cup, fill it with the fragrant tea,
transport it, the bowl, and a tablespoon to the dining room table,
spread the cyanotype napkin on my lap – the one my daughter made with images of specimens from Walden’s woods,
now extinct because of climate change.

I will give thanks for the breakfast, then,
open the laptop to see if my grandchildren
still
live in a Democracy.
– Linda Belans

24/10/2022

Preparing my elderflower champagne
Lilikoi for limonada
Drinks for Upcoming Nov retreat with Dragonfly Yoga

Loaves of Tassajara's Nut Mushroom savory Goodness
Just because

21/10/2022

Breadfruit Ice cream makes a hit in Jamaica.

27/09/2022

Reminder:
Organic whole food is your medicine.
Calcium rich foods are always present in my meals. 100%

10/08/2022

Ulu is in season and a wonderful food source. I just roasted three today. This recipe sounds delicious.

Try this crispy & savory recipe for ‘Ulu Korean Pajeon (pancakes) from . Recently shared on on Ikaika’s Kitchen. For a vegetarian option, you can use mushrooms instead of shrimp!
Ingredients
1 lb of ‘ulu (fully cooked & peeled)
¼ cup coconut milk
½ cup peeled & cleaned shrimp, or ½ cup mushroom (marinated in shoyu 30 min)
½ cup green pepper
1 cup chopped green onion
1 Tbsp garlic chili sauce
2 beaten eggs
1-3 Tbsp GF All-Purpose or Wheat Flour
Oil for frying
Pajeon Sauce ingredients
2 Tbsp shoyu
1 Tbsp rice wine vinegar
1 Tbsp green onion
1 tsp sugar
Directions
Cut ‘ulu into ½ inch cubes.
Add coconut milk to ʻulu and mash with a potato masher until desired consistency is achieved.
Sauté green pepper and shrimp (or mushroom).
Add sautéed green pepper, shrimp (or mushroom), and freshly chopped green onion to ʻulu mix.
Mix ingredients, then add eggs and flour.
Make 3-inch patties and fry with canola or coconut oil until golden brown.
For sauce, mix all ingredients together in a small sauce bowl.
📷

18/07/2022

Be happy
Enchant Your Tastebuds

Ordering Menu for July 21st-23rd.
Pick up after 3:00 in Kula

Kitchari - mung bean and basmati rice cooked with ghee and warming spices to balance the doshas, very healing to the digestive system. $25/ Quart
Guyanese Madras Curry w coconut milk - seasonal vegetables from local farms - broccoli, green beans, squash, onions, fennel, eggplant $25/ Quart - Basmati rice $10
Raita- cucumbers and radish/ flavored with cumin/ cilantro and mint $15/Pt $25/ Qt
Collard wraps with nut spread, avo, sprouts with raw veggies $10 w turkey $12
Chai with local cardamon and ginger - add own milk $15/pt.
Cocoa Avo Mousse $10/pt
Whole menu $120
Favorite farms I source from are Lokahi Farms and Pono Grown, both Upcountry family farms. Contact me soon to order.

12/07/2022

This is my Mexican inspired menu for this week.
If you are interested, please message me for prices.
Friday is pick up day in Kula. Vegan option available

I make all my salsas with traditional recipes and
food is made from scratch to enchant your taste buds.

Soups
• Gazpacho- wonderfully refreshing with veggies, avo and cilantro sprouts
• Pinto beans- whole or refried
Sides
• Pico de Gallo - tomato, chiles, cilantro and onion
• Roasted Tomatillo salsa w/ serrano chiles
• Guacamole
• Nut spread- spicy green chile or mild roasted red pepper
Mains
Tempeh fajitas w/ Mung Bean tempeh, or chicken w/ peppers and onion.
Vegetarian Burritos- beans, rice, guac, salsa
Enchiladas Rojas - cheese, onion olive
Calabacitas. -corn, squash, mild chiles w/ queso fresco

Teff Flour tortillas for burritos
Taco, enchilida and tostado are organic corn tortillas

Sweet
Pineapple upside down cake GF

My website
kitchcraftcatering.com

22/04/2022

Pupu platter as a starter for dinner tonight.

16/04/2022

Saturday AprIl 16th
I just made mango lassi. $25/qt
Fresh goats milk and yogurt, mangoes and rose water. Pick up in Kula.

I might have cajeta also. Stirring...

11/04/2022

A Sago Palm Pearl Pilaf
First time using this starch made from the center, the pith of the trunk of the Sago Palm. In Ayurvedic medicine this is said to be good to get rid of excess heat in the body.
Made with green chiles, cumin seeds, turmeric, potatoes, peanuts and coconut. The pearls are soaked for hours then cooked together with all the other ingredients.

A new salad in my lunch service this week.

10/04/2022

Disclaimer: It is soy which in the 70ʻs was great for vegetarians we thought. Soy has been corrupted by GMO technology and big Ag. There is organic soy supposedly. I have not tried another plant to make this. I want to try a combination of kalo and ulu.
I need to create a new version.
It is one of my nostalgic, early days of vegetarian cooking favorites- the flavors, texture and versatility of this ʻYogi Loafʻ SOYSAUSAGE are really great. Plus, it reminds me of my time at Mt Madonna.

I am making soy sausage 'Yogi Loaf' from a recipe I have had since 1978 from a retreat center called Mt Madonna in Santa Cruz. It is a vegan sausage style food, perfect for biscuits and gravy, spaghetti sauce or by itself for breakfast. If you are interested in buying some let me know. I will have some tomorrow for sale. $8 or trade

06/04/2022

Locavores-
Two ingredients synchronized in season to create Mango Lassi !!! Freshest goat milk and sweetest mangoes $25/qt

03/04/2022

Love this tree and the fruit it so abundantly produces. See details below. By sponsoring a tree, you can help steward food sovereignty for the islands.

Our 116 farmer-members currently steward 5,300 ʻulu trees, with nearly 3,000 trees planted since the co-op was established in summer 2016. As one of the only starch crops on Earth to grow on a tree, ʻulu sequesters and stores carbon while it grows and feeds us.

As the trees that our farmers have planted over the past few years reach maturity and start to produce fruit, we anticipate ʻulu production increasing tenfold to reach 1 million pounds per year by 2030 - that's a lot of ʻulu!

You can help sustain this growth by sponsoring your own ʻulu tree via our online store: in partnership with Project Kanu and Hawaiʻi Farm Trails, we now help to provide ʻulu trees to farmers who are best positioned to put the harvests back into our local food system. Learn more by checking out the link in the comments below!

23/03/2022

From a happy client enjoying Mexican Feast Week. A presentation of some of the offering. There are so many possibilities. Those colors!! Textures ! Flavors!
Another client this week remarked she likes my food because she can feel how relaxed I am when I prepare it.
That is true. I am. I enjoy the process.

10/03/2022

Mexican Week Coming Soon..
March 21st the feast begins
Plates $35
Tamales- Enchiladas- Beans- Rice -Guac
Green chile salsa/ Pico de gallo
Garnishes- cabbage- cilantro

Order yours today

Tamales- Cheese Green Chile or Chicken
Enchiladas Verdes w/ carrot, potato cheese filling
Enchiladas Rojas w/ Cheese- olive

26/02/2022

I will have Leek Quiche with the kalo, carrot, ulu flour crust. Dairy, egg but non gluten for purchase.
2/ $25
Let me know if you want to order for next week.
They will be available Tuesday. March 1st

21/02/2022

Update: This week I have quarts of miso greens soup and tortilla- chicken soup. I will also have a qt of venison spagetti sauce. LMK if you are interested...

Part of my offerings for tomorrow's Haiku lunch service.
Leek Quiche with kalo, carrot and ulu flour crust all sourced locally
Roasted beets with cherry vinegar to be added to goat cheese topped with curried salty sweet walnuts
Carrot and pineapple salad with lemon olive oil
Chicken Tortilla Soup
And there is more in each weekly delivery....


Starting in March, I have space for one more family.

15/01/2022

My Hawaiian inspired vegan cuisine. Order yours through my Personal chef services..
Pupu platter, pahole salad, lau lau, tempeh skewers, pineapple rice, dessert plate.

01/09/2021

Check out my new offerings!! This was geared for BnB guests Upcountry but is open to others as well.
Lots to offer. I am available to private chef for locals. Hire me for your party or special dinner. I also cater events. I am beginning a lunch service. in Haiku this month. Contact me for details.

In December I began to send gift baskets off island, full of Maui goodness. Get one to send to someone you love or if you are missing the unique flavors of Maui, this basket is for you.

Valentine's Day is coming up... Be a sweetheart and give someone you love a taste of Maui.

Contact me for prices and availability

24/08/2021

My salad bar tonight: local organic glory

Caprese Salad with heirloom tomatoes and my fresh picked basil with a good balsamic

Green beans with a macademia -green chile 'cheese' sauce

Blue cheese -Broccoli - smoked tempeh with roasted walnuts on a bed of sprouts- fenugreek and sunnies

Salads are an opportunity to showcase all the abundance of this summer season.
Colors textures tastes all so varied and delicious

29/07/2021

Okra for dehydrating - good medicine for controlling blood sugar - who knew okra is medicinal?
My body told me I needed it, so then I asked why? Research shows seeds and pods have the ability to regulare healthy blood sugar levels. My body knows what I need.

28/07/2021

Gazpacho 100% local grown
My roasted heirloom tomatoes with homegrown basil and gr onion
Madhatter pepper, sharwil avo, carrots, calamansi lime, from food exchange and Pono Grown Farm CSA and cilantro sprouts from Wed market
Only the best!

18/07/2021

Refrigerator dill pickles
It is Summer !!