SWEAT: JUMP!

A few Maui jumps. The first one is quick and at the '7 Sacred Pools' which is on the southern tip of Maui after Hana. Lindsey and I jumped about 50 times from various spots out here.
#2 jump/swimming was the highlight of the trip. We found this waterfall after a 30 minute hike and we were the only 2 people here.....not another soul. A little scary to swim in such a remote place but exhilarating as well.
#3 jump----Our friends Jonathon and Lacy took us here in Kapalua. There were a few locals here but definitely no other tourists.

EAT: Great Weekend

With all of our worldly travels we have neglected creating in the kitchen so we decided to get caught up this weekend. We made pizza....from scratch. Bought whole wheat crust from Trader Joe's....basically a pile of dough in a bag. Smoothed it out, added some sauce, cheese, grilled red onion, mushroom, turkey pepperoni, and spinach.

It was good....we'll be doing this again....possible creations:spicy BBQ chicken pizza?.....something with jalapeno's is necessary as well.



On Saturday we went to Costco and came across a lb of lump crab meat so crab cakes became the menu, the only question was how. We came home and started scouring websites looking for a fun new recipe. We decided to combine two favorites from my mom's personal cookbook...Her recipe for actually making the crab cakes and we decided to use her Mango, Avocado, Tomato salsa to top the cakes. "My new favorite recipe," Lindsey was quoted as saying. It really was awesome and will become our new staple for crab cakes. The salsa is delicious any way you eat it so when you top crab cakes with it, you can imagine how good it becomes! The two recipes per my mom and then pics to follow:

Crab Cakes

1 pound super lump crab meat
1 tsp Old Bay seafood seasoning
1 tsp chopped flat leaf parsley
1/4 tsp dry mustard
1/3 cup plain bread crumbs
1- 1/2 tsp Dijon mustard (one and one-half)
1- 1/2 Tablespoons mayonnaise
1 tsp fresh lemon juice
1 tsp Worcestershire sauce
1 egg, beaten with a fork

Mix together lightly and pan fry to brown in 1 tablespoon butter and 1 tablespoon canola oil. Cook about 3 minutes a side over medium-high heat. Can make the patties ahead, cover, and refrigerate. Fry up later, just before serving.

Makes 8 patties to serve 4 people for dinner. Or, can make smaller patties for a party appetizer.

Avocado, Tomato and Mango Salsa

1 mango, peeled, seeded and diced

1 avocado - peeled, pitted and diced

4 medium tomatoes, squeeze juices out, dice

1 jalapeno pepper, (remove seeds from one half only depending on how spicey you like it )- use the whole pepper and mince

½+ cup chopped fresh cilantro

3 cloves garlic, minced

1 teaspoon salt

2 Tablespoons fresh lime juice

1/4 cup chopped red onion

1 Tablespoon olive oil

In a medium bowl, combine the mango, avocado, tomatoes, jalapeno, cilantro and garlic. Stir in the salt, lime juice, red onion, and olive oil. To blend the flavors, refrigerate for about 30 minutes before serving.


Scoop the salsa over the crab cakes and enjoy:) You can see that we also had mounds of zucchini on our plates....our easy veggie fix lately has been cubed zucchini, salt, pepper, Italian seasonings, wrapped in tin foil and dropped on the grill for about 20 minutes.

Maui Video!

I recorded several videos in Maui yet as I watch them now, there is nothing earth shattering captured by me....so don't get too excited. Hopefully this will give you an idea of a few things we saw and also where we stayed.

First up, this was our first full day in Maui and we headed north from Ka'anapali up through Kapalua and around the Northwest "thumb" of Maui. Total trip time was about 5 hours....remember, this was our first day so we stopped just about every 10 minutes to look at everything we saw!
This is a panoramic shot of Honolua Bay about 15 minutes into our journey:


This video is after we climbed down to the Olivine Pools. I was pretty much out of breath after our climb and unfortunately you can't really see how steep and looong our climb was. We climbed down and there were some pools of water that our book said would be cool to swim in. We opted not to....if you look closely at the top pool in the video, you will see a splash from someone jumping in from the rocks.


Lastly for set one, we have a quick shot after we explored the Nakalele Blowhole. It was a good hike down to see a blowhole that the ocean shoots through up to 50 feet in the air. This is tied to the tide, however, so we only saw it shoot once and it was about 4 feet. This video was after we climbed back up and were eating a snack in an area by ourselves. This was right next to the touristy area and for whatever reason, no one climbed the short climb down to this area.


More to Come......