If you love ice-cream but want a healthy alternative, you can turn to bananas! It turns out that frozen bananas can easily replicate the texture and flavor of traditional ice-cream. Banana ice-cream is so delicious that my kids ask me to make it all the time! In order to make banana ice-cream, you only need […]

We visited Maui in 2013, and it was an amazing trip for so many reasons. I walked out of our hotel, strapped on my GoPro, and walked into the water. One day, we randomly passed a farmer’s market, and found a treasure we were completely unaware existed – lilikoi butter, also known as passion fruit […]

We almost always have bananas in our house. My kids love bananas and eat them almost every day, so it’s not all that often that we have bananas turning brown on the counter; however, sometimes I buy extra bananas and set them aside just to make sure I’ll have enough left over to make my […]

What if I told you that you could make whipped cream in just about 2 minutes? It’s true because I’ve done it, and you only need three ingredients. You might even already have them on hand. I used to buy store bought whipped cream like Cool Whip, but homemade whipped cream tastes better and doesn’t […]

Baking doesn’t have to be complicated. It can actually be really easy. It also doesn’t have to involve fancy ingredients. This cake recipe is actually even easier to make than the directions on the back of a box of cake mix. I’ve been making this easy 2-ingredient cake since I was a teenager. I’ve even […]

When my family is hungry for something warm, savory and delicious but I don’t want to spend a lot of time in the kitchen, I often make this easy recipe that only has 3 ingredients. I call it “tuna dip,” but we often eat it as a sandwich. My tuna dip recipe can also easily […]

Sourdough was my pandemic hobby, but I’ve been making it ever since. In 2020, a friend gave me some sourdough starter, and I quickly started realizing how easy it is to make delicious sourdough bread for my family. Since then, I’ve made countless loaves of sourdough sandwich bread, and I’ve been discovered a quick and […]

The saying goes that when you have lemons, you should make lemonade. We have a lemon tree in our backyard, so we decided we would literally make lemonade. The result was this easy lemonade recipe. Then we came up with an easy upgrade to also make Cherry Heart Lemonade. Before we made our own lemonade […]

My go-to tropical cocktail used to be a Pina Colada, but when my husband and I visited Maui, I decided to try something else. That was my first time drinking a Mai Tai, and it soon became my new favorite cocktail. I had one at the luau we went to. I had one at various […]

Luau Essentials When most people visit Hawaii, they go to at least one luau.  My husband and I went to Oahu for our honeymoon, and we loved the Kalua Pork at the Ali’i Luau we attended at the Polynesian Cultural Center.  A few years later, we visited Maui and attended the Royal Lahaina Luau where […]