Hawaii 50

In 1959, President Dwight Eisenhower signed a bill making Hawaii the 50th state in the Union. That same year, James Michener's historical epic, Hawaii, was published after seven years of research. Extraordinary timing. Fifteen years later, we, the Powers Family, experiencing a relentless season of rain and cold in Seattle, joggled our webbed feet and flew to Hawaii to dry off. Destination was Oahu, one of the eight main islands that make up the state of Hawaii. Oahu, the third largest and most populous of the islands, is home to the capital, Honolulu, Pearl Harbor, and the tourist Mecca, Waikiki Beach.

Oahu is beaming with life, yet a couple blocks off Kamehameha Highway, the main road in Oahu, we experienced the graciousness and charm of island hospitality. In a small sandwich shop a few minutes from Waikiki Beach, we had a plate lunch served with delicious pineapple bread. (Not surprising since Hawaii is home to the Dole Pineapple Plantations.) The amiable proprietor of the shop kindly gave me the recipe.

Bread Pan

Pineapple Bread

Olive oil cooking spray
2 eggs
½ cup extra light olive oil
¾ cup sugar
1 teaspoon pure vanilla
3 tablespoons orange juice
1 ½ cups pineapple chunks, drained
2 ½ cups flour
3 teaspoons baking powder
½ teaspoon baking soda
½ teaspoon sea salt
1 teaspoon cinnamon
½ cup walnuts, chopped

Spray bread pan. Beat eggs, oil, sugar, vanilla, and orange juice together. Stir in pineapple chunks. In separate bowl, mix together flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, and cinnamon. Add dry ingredients to pineapple mixture. Mix well. Fold in walnuts. Pour into sprayed pan. Bake at 350 degrees. Check at 50 minutes. Test to see if toothpick comes out clean. If not, check every 5 minutes until done. Cool in loaf pan for 15 minutes and then remove to rack to finish cooling. Store in refrigerator.

Recipe from the book, Organic for Health, by Sandy Powers

Hawaii 50

A breast cancer survivor who also battled liver disease, Sandy Powers turned to organic foods after her mastectomy to heal her liver and fight cancer recurrence. Her research and amazing results she shares in her recently published book "Organic For Health." Visit Sandy at http://www.organicforhealthsite.com

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Banana Bread Is So Easy See Amaryllis Of Hawaii Loves To Cook By Marilyn Jansen

Amaryllis starts with seven ripe bananas mashed into a bowl. She sifts flour, baking soda, cinnamon and salt into a bowl. She creams together butter and sugar, adds a 1/4 cup of honey and a tsp. of vanilla to the butter mixture, then adds the lightly beaten eggs. She combines the wet and dry ingredients and adds a cup of chopped walnuts, a cup of raisins stirred in at the end, and pours the batter into 2 oiled loaf pans, or several mini loaf pans to bake at 350 degrees 45-60 minutes until done! Sometimes she adds yogurt or 1/2 cup sour cream to the mixture. Many quick breads, like pumpkin bread and zucchini bread, are done this way. It's so easy!

7 ripe mashed bananas

2 & 1/2 cups flour

2 tsp. baking soda

1 tsp. salt

1 tsp. cinnamon

2 sticks butter at room temperature

1 & 1/2 cups sugar

1/4 cup honey

4 eggs, lightly beaten

1 tsp. vanilla

1 cup crushed walnuts

1 cup raisins

Banana Pancakes

Anyone can make beautiful banana pancakes.

Use fresh flour and baking powder. Sift dry ingredients.

1 & 1/2 cups flour

1 cup milk

3 tbsp. sugar

1 tsp. vanilla

2 tsp. baking powder

2 bananas, sliced

1 tsp. salt

2 eggs

Mix wet into dry ingredients just until blended. Add bananas and ladle onto a hot oiled griddle or pan. You know it's hot enough when a drop of water bounces off the pan.
Let bubbles appear on the pancakes before you flip them.
Drizzle with syrup and dust with powdered sugar.
Try blueberries, apples, peaches, or mango in pancakes or wrapped in crepes!

Basic crepe batter
2 eggs

1/2 cup flour

2/3 cup milk

1/4 tsp. salt

1 tbsp. oil

Lightly beat the eggs, stir in milk & oil, gradually stir in flour and salt. Beat until smooth. Cover and refrigerate 2 hours.
Brush a 7-inch crepe pan with oil and heat until hot. Stir batter, add scant 2 tbsp. batter to pan & quickly tilt to cover bottom of pan. Cook crepe, turning over until lightly browned on both sides. Makes 12

Have Fun and enjoy the fresh wonderful fruits.

My name is Marilyn Jansen.
I live on the island of Maui pursuing life as a writer and budding artist. I worked as a registered nurse for 14 years until I began to follow my true dream of expressing myself creatively through drawing, painting, writing, designing books, creating jewelry, and fashion designs and developing a line of food products to go with my cookbook. It is so fulfilling to pursue a dream with a passion!

I love to do Hawaiian Quilting, & Hand-painting on t-shirts. I plan to create DVDs of a craft series to go with small books. I have painted on tees for over 25 years and have taught teens and adults how to paint. They love it! It is fun and healing for the body, mind, soul & spirit. When creativity flows we feel alive, energized by the excitement overflowing from us. We also experience relaxation because we let ourselves go! It is my goal to get people interested in gardening, cooking, sewing and art, so they can develop passions of their own. Life is great when we slow down and enjoy the simple things and find beauty in everyday life. See http://www.amaryllisofhawaii.com

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