Hawaii Food and Recipe Blog

In honor of spring, I’ve been in a very milkshake frame of mind. So today I give you the tropical pineapple/coconut shake! Tastes yummy even if you don’t have coconut syrup on hand (but it’s not hard to find)

• 1/4 cup cold milk
• 2 scoops vanilla ice cream
• 1 5 1/4 oz can of pineapple chunks, and don’t drain it!
• 1 TBSP coconut syrup

Place them all in a blender, then mix until nice and smooth. Pour into a tall glass (with a little paper umbrella if you have one) and enjoy! Makes a very nice change from chocolate. Also works great with coconut sorbet (if you can find it) in which case drop the coconut syrup… although it isn’t quite as creamy.

I saw so many gorgeous tropical flowers and scenes on my trip, and the pictures turned out really gorgeous… so I decided to make some wallpapers out of them! Feel free to download them as I post, and yes you can share with your friends

Today’s shot is of the yellow hibiscus - how beautiful!

One thing that I really enjoyed while I was in Hawaii was shave ice. Now, a common misconception is that a shave ice is like a slushy here on the mainland. But nothing could be further from the truth! There’s a reason for the name - “shave ice” is literally shaved by a sharp blade off of a rotating block of ice, making something which is much closer to snow than slush. It’s packed tightly into a BIG dish, and then sprayed with one or more great flavors. I had coconut and it was mouth watering! You can also get a scoop of ice cream inside, or sweet bean paste. Whatever you choose, it’s tasty and cools you down in that hot Hawaiian sun!