This week was crazy busy at work, the weekend couldn’t come soon enough. I think this is the first weekend in 3 weeks we don’t have to be anywhere. That means one thing, we have a lot of catching up to do on the farm.
David got out on the boat Monday for a solo fishing trip. He launched out of Laupahoehoe. It doesn’t have the best ramp, so conditions have to be pretty perfect to go out, and it was. I helped him launch, but he got in all on his own.
He caught hapu’upu’u (Hawaiian sea bass), opakapaka (pink snapper), and kawakawa (mackerel tuna). He dried the kawakawa, and then we had Chinese style hapu’upu’u and opakapaka. This is my absolute favorite way to have fish.
You steam the fish in ti leaves with ginger and garlic, my husband adds onions too. Then when it’s cooked, you pour hot steaming peanut oil over it, add a little shoyu, and it’s done. Actually it’s perfect. My mouth waters just thinking about it. It’s a really good way to cook white fish. I’ve never done a tuna that way, and am not so sure how that would work.
David finished the dry house this week. That’s where he dried the fish and we have some coffee in there now drying as well. Well almost finished, he needs to add some more screening on the left hand side. He did a great job. It’s going to serve us well.
We had our morning coffee on the porch and then got to picking coffee early before it got too hot. We picked about five gallons in a little over an hour. I processed the coffee, and am super happy to report that we had very little beans damaged by the borer beetle. We’re doing a really good job of staying on top of treatments. It’s only 11:00 a.m. and it’s already super hot, so I took a quick break to jump in the pool, do some laundry, and blog. This afternoon, we’ll be picking bananas and pretty much the last of the dragon fruit for drying. We have a little fish left from Monday so we’ll be having fish for dinner … Chinese stye of course.
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