Farmer's Market

One of my favorite things to do in Hilo, Hawaii is to go to the farmers market. There are so many interesting things to look at and eat. Many vendors sell home-made and home-grown products. I love looking at all kinds of different fruit and vegetables that I would not normally notice in MI: star fruit, papaya and mangoes to name a few. I never knew there where so many varieties of bananas. Ice cream banana, Apple banana, I think there is even a Strawberry banana. There are also people selling meals that you can tell they cooked in their kitchen - not mass produced - Peruvian style tamales, Thai spring rolls, Musubi wraps (Nik's favorite!), banana coconut wraps, home-made passion fruit butter, home-made purple sweet potato salsa , home-made bread and herb goat cheese spreads. YUMMY !!! About once a week we pick something new we have never tried and eat it. Lauchlan and Nik are real good sports, but Izzy, on the other hand, not so much. She does like the baby bananas though. Today Lauchlan ate half the bowl of purple sweet potato salsa. I was surprised he really enjoyed something that is quite healthy for you:) Woo Woo! I love it when I can get them to enjoy healthy food!

Starfruit sliced and ready to enjoy

That banana-stuff that we love- what is it called?

Izzy has a birthday coming up so I sent dad with all the kids to the local army surplus store up the street and I went to the forbidden side of the farmers market :-). I can get myself in to a lot of trouble over there with all the beautiful dresses and unique styles that I adore. Though today I was good, I only bought the things I had in mind to get. I will post what she got after her birthday. I hope I can figure out how to post pictures from my facebook account on to this blog. I have a lot of fun pix I would like to share with my friends and family that are not fans of facebook. The next time I go to the farmers market I will try to take pictures of the food and fun that goes on there. I just don't like to look like a tourist. I guess I gotta do what I gotta do to for the sake of having an interesting blog.