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The Perfect Turkey

11/29/2013

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This is how we do it on Akua Lani LLC.

 Organic Turkey & 3 Day Herb Brine Soak is the Key

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Yumm. 
Things You'll need.   Organic Turkey,  Herbs,  Bread,  Butter,  Carrots, Onion,  Garlic,  Sea Salt,  Large canning Pot to Brine the Turkey, Turkey Tin  and  *Turkey Bag.
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Make your herb salt brine mix.  I used Garlic, Rosemary, Basil, Hawaiian Sea Salt, and one bottle of Akua Lani LLC Hawaiian Lava H20 TM.

Brine Your Organic Turkey for Thee Days

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I put my Frozen Organic Turkey in this Canning Pot and let it unthaw in the Herb Brine Water for thee days in the refrigerator.
Three days are up and now it time to take the brining turkey out and let it get to room temperature.  About the same time you are done making stuffing from scratch, the turkey should be ready to stuff.
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Take The bird out its stuffing time

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Turkey stuffed and stitched closed in a heart shape with Lemon Grass.
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Turkeys in the bag decorated with Kefir Lime Leaves, Rosemary, Garlic, Butter and a Sprinkle of Cane Sugar.  Also Cloves of Garlic, Ginger wedges and a few hot peppers have been inserted under the skin.

                      Oven Time

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 Fires going for the rest of the cooking.  

Potatoes cooking and turkey neck gravy in the works.
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    Brining takes away about an hour off of oven use

Feast Time

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Hope you enjoy :)
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Happy  Thanksgiving     Keep on thanks Living

*Turkey Bag.  Not the greenest thing to use.  You can achieve the same results with foil on top with a few holes. You have to baste it several times during the cooking.  We use the turkey bag because our oven isn't the best. The propane runs hot and the handle is missing on the oven, we have to use needle nose pliers to turn it and guess the temperature. The bag makes it so I don't have to keep my eye on the bird as much and from opening the oven a lot.  When I get an oven upgrade, I will end the bag.
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Play with your food

11/11/2013

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A fun way for kids to eat veggies

Edible Art soup 
& smootie mix 

  sustainable &  Edible

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This is a great project for Homeschoolers, Community Garden Teachers and Anyone who loves, art, kids and good food.

  what you'll need 
      for art food

Organic Bright Colored Vegetables,  Organic Bright Colored Fruit, Organic Milk or Milk substitute, Dehydrator with fine mesh screens, cooking pots, blender, coffee grinder, small jelly jars, small glass bottles with corks and skewer sticks.

Organic Pumpkin  organic Beet are a must for soups

Organic blueberries art a must for smoothies

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Start by making your soups or smoothies. Don't add salt or sugar! You might have to use some at the end when you are using the coffee grinder.
I make the strong, bright batch 1st. This is organic Kobocha pumpkin we grew here on Akua Lani LLC.  Make a large batch of this soup for your base color, save some to dehydrate.  Then you add some Organic Milk or Organic Milk Substitute. Don't add to much. Save some of this batch for the dehydrator. You'll need to do this at least one more time.
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After you have your at least 3 different shades of the same color, its time to Dehydrate! 
Make sure your soup and smoothie mix is thick enough to not pour over the sides of your fine mesh dehydration sheets.  Start prepping more color soups and store them in the fridge or freezer. Dehydrating takes a while.  Nice to have the next batch ready, prepping a bunch of soups takes time too.

Getting closer to   goodness  : )
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Now You have a nice collection of Dehydrated flavor colors! Next You'll want to get a clean coffee grinder. Make sure your colors are really dry. Grind away! Turn it into power or sand. This is when you can add a little sugar or salt to help with grinding.
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Get your jelly jars and fill them with the colors. Keep them dry.  Next get your food art bottles and skewer sticks. Same Idea as sand art at the fair. Now Bring the Kids and play with your food!! Cork the bottles, best stored in the fridge.  Take them out and admire your colorful food art! Rehydrate and enjoy your flavor art meal or snack!
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 Try   making   these   organic  soups   and   smooties

soup Flavor colors

Organic Beet: 
Makes deep Fuchsia.  Add Organic Milk or Milk Sub. to get different shades of pink.

Organic Tomato: 
Dark Red.

Organic Pumpkin: 
Bright Orange.  Add Organic Milk or Milk Sub. to get different shades of Yellow.

Organic Leafy Greens:
Makes Green. Lol. Add Organic Milk or Milk Sub. to get different shades of light green.

Organic Blueberries: Make a savory Organic Cream sauce, add a few Blueberries and Dehydrate for a light sky blue.

Smootie Flavor Colors

Organic Raspberries:
Dark Red.  Add Organic Milk or Milk Substitute, protein powder or bananas to get different shades of pink.

Organic Mangos:
Bright Yellow.  Add Organic Milk or Milk Substitute, protein powder or bananas to get different shades of yellow.

Organic Spirulina Powder:
Dark Green.  Add Organic Powdered Milk or Milk Substitute or protein powder to get different shades of green.

Organic Blueberries:Dark Blue. Add Organic Milk or Milk Substitute, protein powder or bananas to get different shades of blue.
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These are the ingredients I used for the photo above above. 

Organic Kabocha Pumpkin, Beet and Vegetable Soup Mix.
Edible Colors grown on Akua Lani Farm.
These one of a kind salt art soup mixes are made with Aloha from the finest organic vegetables grown and dehydrated here at Akua Lani LLC, Farm and Sustainable Sanctuary.

Landscape ingredients:

Hawaiian Sea Salt, *Kabocha Pumpkin, *Beet, *Kale, *Collards, *Chard, *Leeks, and......

"Hawaiian Grown Gourmet Herbs & Tropical Fruit, Spicy With Sea Salt"
Ingredients: Dehydrated GMO free *MANGO, *FIG, *ROSE APPLE, *ROSEMARY, *CELERY, *HOLY BASIL, *THAI BASIL, *MINT, *GREEN ONION, *KEFIR LIME LEAVES, *CAYENNE PEPPER, HAWAIIAN SEA SALT & *ALOHA 
Mixed with 
AKUA LANI VEGGY CHIPS: ORGANIC *KALE, *CHARD, *COLLARDS, RUBBED AND DEHYDRATED WITH AKUA LANI ORIGINAL HAWAIIAN LAVA SAUCE TM. : *HAWAIIAN CHILI PEPPERS, APPLE CIDER VINEGAR, *SOLAR STEAM DISTILLED HAWAIIAN RAIN WATER, GARLIC, GINGER, *GREEN ONION, HAWAIIAN CANE SUGAR, HAWAIIAN SEA SALT, *ALOHA AND XANTHAN GUM

* Ingredients GROWN on SUSTAINABLE FARM & SANCTUARY, AKUA LANI LLC

We use no Chemicals, only the best organic fertilizers and collected rainwater.
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    Author:  Carmen,  Artist  Farmer and owner of Akua Lani LLC.
     
    Sustainable Living, Gardening and  Art have been my passion as long as I can remember.
    Before moving to Hawaii in 2002 to live on a sustainable farm.  I was part of several non profit groups, such as   The Sofia Quintero Art and Cultural Center and Toledo Grows. These Groups have created many beautiful community gardens and have amazing volunteers flourishing today!
    Be prepared for some interesting Blog topics.  From Solar Power,  Organic Gardening,  Art,  what to do when your goat is sick and more.

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