Margaritas! Taco's! Ohana!

Cinco de Mayo!
Fiesta feast with the ohana! This is how to celebrate a holiday.

History says, Cinco de Mayo commemorates the Mexican army's 1862 victory over France at the Battle of Puebla during the Franco-Mexican War (1861-1867). A relatively minor holiday in Mexico, in the United States Cinco de Mayo has evolved into a celebration of Mexican culture and heritage.

Although I may have French ancestry, supposedly all the way to Napoleon, who in fact, history says caused this war...ummmm, I don't know any of my French relatives and I like a party! I do love Mexican food, which Napoleon may have as well :) maybe it's why he wanted his own piece of Mexico.

Taco's are so easy to make and yummy! Customize your own fillings on a good tortilla just the way you like it.

You can make it as healthy as you want, or really naughty! Must watch my boys, so they don't get carried away with the toppings.

This will feed my whole family plus leftovers for the week! Who doesn't love Mexican food?

For my Portuguese boys, I made a small batch of malasada's and tried to fill them with good vanilla bean ice cream. Sort of...the malasada batter melted off and I ended up making flat pancakes and scooping the ice cream on top.

The attempt to deep fry the ice cream was still yummy, just not pretty. Need more practice and an hour long hula practice session before bed to burn it off 0.0

Happy Healthy Eating!
Love Always,
Maile
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Eggs, Eggs, and more Eggs!

Eggs are delicious and super healthy. Also very useful. A healthy serving of protein and so very delicious. I already mentioned the egg yolk hair mask, but I am always throwing my egg shells in the compost planters outside to. I think my plants like them. They are still growing, and look great, just like my hair ;) lol.

My mom is always boiling eggs and my children are always stealing them from her fridge. I love my egg white omelets and also over easy, running gooey all over any hot veggie, or brown rice with kim chee.

We shouldn't have too many leftover this year, as my favorite nephews hunt down the plastic eggs. Less smelly if you can't find it again and a treasure to find later.

Happy Easter Celebrations! A lovely family holiday, no matter what your faith. Wishing you many blessings.
Love and Aloha,
Maile
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Party Weekend!

Xin nian kaui le! (Happy New Year!)

I have truly enjoyed my weekend celebrating my nephew's first birthday! So nice to see everyone and although it was a lot of work, everyone enjoyed themselves and the food was delicious!

I was so naughty and didn't count one calorie or track any of the tempting treats I enjoyed. I did try to journal it, ended up taking a photo of my plate, but I couldn't even guess the amounts.

I'm not worried about it really. Life is filled with parties, and at the end of the day filled with furniture moving, decorating, food, and helping anywhere I could (all in my cute, not broken in yet, heels) I kicked off my shoes and enjoyed a delicious sample of the fancy buffet. Sam Choy's BBQ ribs, chicken, noodles, crab dip on fancy garlic buttered toast, and homemade from the Big Island, Tab's sister Michelle's Rainbow birthday cake! She also made delicious almond cookies! Yum!

The next day, with so many leftovers, we had to have another party just to get it out of the fridge. I still couldn't count calories, and I forgot to take a photo. Too busy playing with my adorable nephews ;)

Tomorrow, I will get myself back on track. I promise to journal, track, measure everything. The weekend was wonderful and a perfect way to celebrate this new year!

Happy Lunar New Year!
Kung hee fat choy!

Love and Aloha,
Maile

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