Another Fermentation & Pickling Class

I helped with another Fermentation & Pickling Class that was sponsored by the Kohala ʻOno Food Hui. Sandra was again leading the class, with assistance from Kathy, Michelle, & me. We made the same things we made 2 weeks ago: sweet cucumber pickles, mak kim chee, & sauerkraut. But this time we used what we learned from the 1st class & were able to get out much quicker.

Marian fills her jar with mak kim chee.

My Team - (L to R) Marian, Vanessa, & Delilah filling jars with mak kim chee.

(L to R) Bill, Marian, Vanessa, & Delilah massage cabbage to make sauerkraut.

Most of the class with most of what we made.

After the previous class I had asked Sandra if she had any shiso starts or seeds or knew where I could get some. She did not. But Michelle did! She said it grew like a weed at her place! She brought me 2 small plants today; they are the red variety. As soon as I got home I planted them in the raised planter; I hope they do well there.

Foreground: ʻuala; back right corner: shiso.

The ʻuala in the front of the photo has a purple skin with purple flesh. The leaves & stems have more purple in them than the Okinawan sweet potato which has purple flesh but a beige-colored skin. I think I have the Stokes variety of purple sweet potato. I add the leaves to my smoothies for more fiber; I like that they have a higher anthocyanin content from the purple pigment in the leaves than other ʻuala varieties.

I checked on the kalo this afternoon after I planted the shiso. They are all doing well. But I need to get out there & weed out all the grass. And I also need to move the Palehua so it is easier to tell them apart from their neighbors when they start crowding each other. Right now the planting order of the varieties from the inflow to the end of the trench is: ʻEleʻele, Palehua, Moi, & Bun Long. Both ʻEleʻele & Palehua have purplish coloring on the stems; Moi & Bun Long do not. I want to change the order to ʻEleʻele, Moi, Palehu, & Bun Long so I can tell them apart easier. 

 

The Mandarin lessons on Duolingo have 2 additional lesson types that ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi does not; one is a listening exercise & the other is a speaking exercise. I'm guessing the speaking exercise is so that you pronounce those 5 vowel types correctly! Here's what the listening exercise looks like.

Tropical Storm Amanda has been downgraded to a tropical depression. It has maximum sustained winds of 35 miles per hour. It is moving southwesterly at about 3 mph. 

Episode 49 of the eruption of Kīlauea  is likely to take another 7 to 13 days.

Hauʻoli lā Hānau e Kip, Marcia, Gloria, & Peter!