Ye Ole Leather Smith at the Farmer's Market

Here is Wolf Daniel Braun, the leathersmith at our local farmer's market in Sea View.He is seen here holding a goat leather bag with Celtic designs, and an antler horn button. It was lovely to meet Mr. Braun, who is originally from Chicago. He has been working with leather since 1977. Braun custom makes shoes,boots,sandals,purses,briefcases, and amazing feather masks. If you would like to purchase one of his hand made leather items, call (808)895-4383 or write to: Wolf Daniel Braun
P.O. Box 1273
Pahoa,Hawaii 96778

Kimchi

I just read that Kimchi is listed as one of the top five healthiest foods in the world! Here is some Kimchi I picked up at our local farmer's market.

I love Kimchi, and have been eating it since I was a child when my mom made Kimchi. My favorite way to eat it was actually with grilled cheese sandwiches.

I might add that although I love Korean food, I am really bad at remembering the names of the foods I like. You know that yummy beef stuff that is coated with egg, and then you dip it in a delicious sauce that has soy sauce, carrots and chili pepper in it? I love it. I love all the different kinds of kimchi, that daicon one, and the cucumber one and especially the one that is made from cabbage.

I would never have imagined, when I was a child slurping up kimchi, that it would someday be considered a super food.
There is a kimchi pancake, kimchi space food, kimchi air conditioners, and even kimchi clothing.

At the Sea View Farmers Market

For four weeks now, I have been selling bread, and Kealani's Kona Coffee at the Sea View Farmer's market.
My friend Noelle,seen here with Kealani, is baking multi grain bread with flax,mini sweet potato pies,freshly ground peanut butter,cashew butter, and whole grain English muffins. Sometimes Noelle makes cashew lime bon bons, and cashew chocolate bon bons.I must say that Noelle is a lovely lovely young lady, who is beautiful in every way, but the only two pictures I took of her, her eyes were almost closed. So, this was the most bright eyed of the two pictures.We love you Noelle! I love selling bread with you!

I have been making sourdough bread, French bread with garlic and basil,olive and feta,rosemary, and oatmeal. I have also started making rye bread,Peruvian Chili pepper bread, and hamburger buns with sprouted wheat.We serve a "Greek" breakfast plate too.

Anyone have a good recipe for sprouted wheat bread? I think the buns were good, but the wheat berries were a little too crunchy.

Kealani versus the volcano

On Saturday, we went to the Seaview Farmer's Market to sell Kealani's Kona Coffee, and on the way home we stopped to eat a little lunch and watch the volcanic cloud. The cloud you see is created by hot 2000 degree lava flowing into the cool pacific ocean.

The Farmer's Market was really interesting. I got some soap from the Filthy Farm Girl, some lovely fresh spinach, really red ripe tomatoes,fresh bread from my friend Noelle, and some of Breezes'Balm, a organic herb filled butter with a coconut lavender base for cuts, bites,bruises,rashes,sunburn,etc,and some really good chocolate chip,breadfruit scones, also from Noelle. Noelle's scones were very delicious, I could not taste the breadfruit, but it gave the scones a nice texture.

I was surprised at how busy this little farmer's market got. The market only allows organic produce,baked goods,food,and hand crafted items. There was fresh brewed coffee, sourdough pancakes,tofu scramble,chili,papaya salsa,cookies,cinnamon rolls, handcrafted jewelry,pedicures,haircuts,free bike repair,fresh carrot juice,wheat grass shots,miracle berries with unsweetened lemon juice,and unsweetened passion fruit juice. I tried a miracle berry and it actually worked. I did not believe it so I drank the lemon juice first. Then I ate one berry, and sipped the juice. It was a miracle, the lemon juice tasted very sweet.

I think I ate enough on Saturday morning to last me the rest of the week. I tried the Filthy Farm Girl Cardamom Rose soap today and now my whole bathroom smells like roses.