Curry Leaves

E Komo Mai! Welcome!

In full disclosure, I am not a chef. Heck, I am not even a good cook. That said, I love tasty dishes!

On the opposite side of the berm as you look mauka (towards the mountain), near the macadamia nut trees, is a curry tree. The picture taken in June shows the teardrop leaves along with the berries it often produces.

Thankfully, the tree grows really well and needs little help from us to stay healthy. I am grateful for both that and for the leaves it produces.

As you may have read in previous blogs, virtually all of the trees and plants at Koili Point are edible. And we don't use pesticides as you know so please avail yourself to the leaves for your dishes.

We planted a curry tree about 4 years ago as we love different types of curry and figured we'd get around to learning how to actually use them in recipes once the tree was big enough to produce.

While I have enjoyed curry leaves in many Indian dishes, I have had little to no idea how to use them in a recipe. Thank you internet.

No doubt there are thousands of sites to visit for curry leaf ideas if you need, but I found one which seemed to be pretty straightforward for a novice cook like myself and it included fish as well. Curry Leaves Fish Fry Recipe (yummytummyaarthi.com).

I would love to hear if you use the curry leaves in a dish.

Finally, I want to leave you with a Hawaiian Place Name and its translation. Today's place name is Nuʻuanu. When we lived for a short time on Oahu, we lived in that town and we were told the royalty would go there to escape the heat from Honolulu area. Thus, and aptly named, Nuʻuanu translates to 'cool height' since "nu'u" means height and 'anu' means cool.

Aloha!

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