Aloha Bread Lovers

Aloha Bread Lovers – this Sunday we will be serving a tangy and rain-worthy Shakshuka. For those who still don’t know what Shakshuka is: tomatoes (lots and lots), onions, garlic, olive oil and plenty of great spices all slow-cook overnight. When you order it, we crack either one egg or two into it (your choice) and then put in the oven for 10 minutes. It is served with a roll baked fresh to mop it all up. It’s good. AND, we will of course have our very favorite Uke Jammer’s playing music. All are encouraged to sing with them if the muse strikes. It’s all that I can do to keep Yael focused in preparing the Shakshuka as every song is always “my favorite…I need to go sing”.

Here’s a sweet thing. It all started with Margret. Margret is a regular at Motek. She came in one day with what looked like a canvas bag that she wanted to show me. This was no ordinary bag – the material was impregnated with beeswax and it was meant for bread such as ours. She swore by it – it kept her bread fresh far longer than without the bag. Well, that’s all we needed to hear. The next day another one of our regulars came in – Amanda the seamstress. We know Amanda from the early days when we had a stall at the Pukalani Stables Farmers Market in Waimea where Amanda has a stall to this day. So I show Amanda the bread bag (online version) that Margret showed me and asked if she could make them for us. Amanda, being Amanda, jumped right in. She then connected with Kaisa, aka “Honey Girl”. Kaisa and her partner Jerimiah are beekeepers (apiarists to be more precise) here in Kapaau. As it turns out, Honey Girl was already selling swaths of cloth impregnated with beeswax which is used to keep food fresh. So now Malama-Ki Honey Bees is going to work with Stitch-In-Time Amanda to produce special bags for Motek (with our logo of course) that will keep you bread fresher, longer. This is all just a promo as they are still figuring it out – but it will happen. In the meantime, we have begun stocking some of Malama-Ki Honey Bees honey which is absolutely amazing as far as honey goes. They have 2 varieties – one produced from hives placed along the rim of the Pololu Valley, producing a dark, syrupy honey and the other from hives place in Puako producing a thicker, golden honey. We are thrilled to be selling their honey and very excited about this hyper-local venture to produce bread bags to keep you bread – locally and freshly baked at Motek – fresher, longer. Also, tomorrow (Saturday) we will be baking a special sourdough loaf with oatmeal and honey.

Mahalo – David and Yael

P.S. – A Joke: WARNING – CLICK ON THIS LINK AT YOUR OWN PERIL (you might laugh): https://www.oldjewstellingjokes.com/2018/11/13/neil-elliot-a-divorce-360/