Holidays are all about home and hearth, which is to say, family and food. Last week, Inkwatu was a post about sharing a morning with my son (the family part of home and hearth) at a dog park in Atlanta. Today’s Inkwatu is a repost of recipe teasers (both family and food) from my sister’s Hawaiian homesteading blog, Lava to Lilikoi. I hope you enjoy her posts–and food!–as much as I do..
Old-Fashioned Pumpkin Pie
In the days and weeks preceding Thanksgiving, every website that features food of any kind has a pumpkin pie recipe on it. The pictures are irresistible, of course. I can put on twenty pounds just looking at the pictures and thinking about how good it would taste!
Like so many of the recipes I post on here, this is my own version of one from an old issue of Better Homes & Gardens. When I say “old”, I mean it came from the fifties when I was first married. The photo above shows what is left of the original page, complete with old cellophane tape!…Read the rest of the recipe at Lucy’s Lava to Lilikoi: Old-Fashioned Pumpkin Pie.
Blackberry Cobbler
When a friend came to visit from Maui this week, I made the soup to eat with homemade cornbread. For dessert, I made this blackberry cobbler from the fresh berries I’d found at Costco. You can use whatever kind of berries you have available.…Read the rest of the story at Lucy’s Lava to Lilikoi: Blackberry Cobbler.
Split Pea Soup With Smoky Pork
When I lived on my sailboat, this soup was a tradition on all homeward bound trips after a week or more at sea. It’s a good thing stoves on a sailboat are gimbaled so that they remain steady and the soup doesn’t slop out when we are heeled over on a good run.…Read the rest of the story at Lucy’s Lava to Lilikoi: Split Pea Soup With Smoky Pork.
Old-Fashioned Bread Pudding
When I was pastoring at a church in Arizona, someone always brought several dozen doughnuts from the local bakery to serve with coffee during a fellowship hour. If some were left over, I took them home and let them get stale for a couple days.
Then I would break them up into bits of about ½ inch to make this bread pudding – regular doughnuts, cake doughnuts, jelly-filled doughnuts, cinnamon twists, and the like. What a delicious and unusual bread pudding!…Read the rest of the story at Lucy’s Lava to Lilikoi: Old-Fashioned Bread Pudding.
Molasses Cookies
There’s nothing better in the middle of the night than a cold glass of milk (non-fat, of course) with a homemade cookie. One of my favorites is a soft molasses cookie. Please don’t count the calories on this one. It’s bound to be healthy with all that molasses. There really isn’t much more I can add to that, so here’s the recipe.…Read the rest of the story at Lucy’s Lava to Lilikoi: Molasses Cookies.
Orange Bread
When I was in high school, I worked as a receptionist for one of the local optometrists who was also a member of my father’s church. His wife was known to be a great cook, so this is the recipe from Bea Henderson of Litchfield, Illinois – one I’ve made for many years.
This recipe became a staple when I was living on my boat. It was not only a delicious and fast bread to whip up in my tiny galley, but it used up the orange peels instead of tossing them somewhere. Jokingly, I called it my “garbage bread,” but it was anything but garbage!…Read the rest of the story at Lucy’s Lava to Lilikoi: Orange Bread.
Lilikoi Butter
First, you need to know that “lilikoi” is our Hawai`ian word for passionfruit, the fruit of the Passion Flower vine. Read the Wikipedia religious explanation of the word “passion.” But I’m passionate about the passionfruit (groan), which I know mostly as lilikoi.…Read the rest of the story at Lucy’s Lava to Lilikoi: Lilikoi Butter.
Thanks, Lucy, for letting me share these recipes with the Inkwatu readers. Hope they keep going to your site for more info about Hawaii and plenty more recipes.
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