My Favorite Recipes

Cacao trees with green and ripe cacao pods at the Original Hawaiian Chocolate Factory.

Tropical Treats from Hawaii

Foodies look for unique, delicious or locally sourced food, or best of all, all three characteristics in one. If this sounds good to you, you probably love the heritage tomatoes at the Saturday Marketplace in Moscow, sweet corn from your neighbor and zucchini from your own garden. You would also love the big island of Hawaii.

Plants that grow here have to like temperatures that vary from 60 on “cold” winter nights to 80 during the day, although temps drop lower at higher altitudes...