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Food, Drink & Restaurants

Blogging from my new apple iPad

July 11, 2010

Just set up my iPad with the Wordpress app on the iPad and pretty excited about the possibilities of blogging without having to sit in front of my iMac!
To fully enable it, you have to go into your Writing options under Settings and click the box under Remote Publishing for XML-RPC for “Enable the [...]

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Blogging from my new apple iPad

July 11, 2010

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Betsy Curtis at Boston Basils in Kona

June 16, 2010

We enjoyed some great entertainment this week at Boston Basil’s in Kailua-Kona when we went to listen to the jazz-stylings of Betsy Curtis. She was a famous singer in the late sixties, part of Betsy and Chris—think Marcia and Jan Brady singing folk songs in Japan—who were so popular they made lunchboxes and stockings with [...]

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Our Honorary CEO

June 4, 2010

A week ago today we had a visitor to our home. His name, we soon decided, was Jack (we were big Lost fans and since the season just ended, this influenced our decision). Then a few days later upon closer inspection we realized that Jack was actually a Jill. We were devastated as were already [...]

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Hale Kai at the Fairmont Orchid

February 19, 2010

Tonight we toasted to new beginnings for our business at the Hale Kai Restaurant, located at the Fairmont Orchid Resort on the Kohala Coast. The Hale Kai, or House by the Ocean, has a primo location right next to the beach and the pool. The “floor” of the restaurant is actually sand (although they still [...]

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Greenwell Farms Coffee Tour

October 10, 2009

As part of our anniversary getaway to the south of Kona, we decided to tour a coffee farm. It was time to fuel my coffee addiction a little more by gaining a true appreciation of how that little bean gets into my cup every morning. We chose Greenwell Farms, because our trusty travel bible The [...]

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Honolulu Coffee Company

September 15, 2009

Years before we moved to Hawaii we heard about the Honolulu Coffee Company from our friend Rick. “They serve your coffee in a real mug!” he would always tell us. And they certainly do. Look at this beauty of a presentation for my breve latte.
I don’t know what it is about their coffee, but [...]

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30 Day Challenge Completed

September 2, 2009

We’d have to say that our 30 Day Challenge to have a little bit more fun was successful. We tried over 75 new things in 30 days! Where to go from here? Think I’ll put my feet up, watch the sunset, and give it a little thought…

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A True Hawaiian Lu’au Pizza at Kona Brewery

September 1, 2009

We didn’t try a new restaurant tonight, but tried four different things that we’d never ordered before from one of our favorite pizza places on the island, the Kona Brewery.
We were stoked to learn that you can mix two specialty pizzas on the same pie. Half and half, no extra cost. So we tried Kaloko [...]

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Pear in a Taco Salad?

August 27, 2009

Maybe we were just trying to get rid of our expired fruit or maybe it was a stroke of genius.. We’ll never truly know, but today Jim added pear to our taco salad. Yes, pear.
I came running downstairs excited about the salad he was making, then he said “I added pear as our new thing [...]

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