Food truck champion Seoul Sausage makes an appearance Saturday at an Eat the Street block party in Kapolei.
Chef Chris Oh and brothers Yong and Ted Kim, winners of the Food Network’s “The Great Food Truck Race,” Season 3, will be serving their kalbi and spicy pork sausages alongside more than 30 local food trucks.
The block party is sponsored by Kapolei Lofts, to mark the completion of the 400-unit rental complex.
The food-truck dining, kids’ activities, marketplace and entertainment run from 2 to 7 p.m. on Kuou Street between Manawai and Wakea streets, next to Kapolei Lofts.
Among other trucks planning to hit the street: Big Texan BBQ, Hawaiian Twister Tater, Hawaii’s Fried Musubi, Hula Shrimp, Uncle’s Kitchen, Uncle’s Ice Cream Sandwiches, Waimanalo Country Farms and Wild Candy Bacon.
Admission is free; food is pay-as-you-go. Parking is available on surrounding streets, at Kapolei Regional Park and Cole Academy, 1033 Ala Kahawai St.
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Star-Advertiser staff
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Kitchen tips
Speed-ripening works for bananas, avocados
When you want banana bread, you can never find overripe bananas, am I right?
So here’s what you do. Bake your underripe bananas (even tinged with green, as mine were) in a 350-degree oven for five to seven minutes.
I baked mine seven minutes, during which time the peel turned mostly black (upon cooling they were fully black). I peeled them and, voila — they were indeed banana bread-ready.
The same trick works for avocados. Wrap them in foil, place in a 200-degree oven until soft, and then cool in the fridge.
The directions I found said 10 minutes but added that it could take up to 1 hour, depending on how hard the avocado was. Well, my avocado was large and rock hard, so I left it in the oven for an hour. It never felt soft to the squeeze, but I placed it in the fridge as instructed to let it cool.
To my surprise, when I cut into it later, it was soft — though it still had that “green” taste to it, not that rich taste of a counter- ripened fruit. But for a batch of guac, with a multitude of flavors added? Or a salad with other ingredients? This is a viable solution.
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Nancy Stohs, Tribune News Service
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Get the buzz on bees, honey at free forum
The current buzz about bees is not positive. Between the varroa mite, the small hive beetle, pesticides, herbicides and a general decrease in pollen, the tiny bee is considerably outgunned.
Local beekeepers will share their concerns in “How Do You Like Your Honey?” — a free forum on raising bees and local honey production — 6:30 to 8 p.m. Thursday at Kokua Market.
Among the speakers will be Ken Harmeyer of the Hawaii Bee Hotline and Melissa Yee, a backyard beekeeper.
The session is the first in a series on food and health, to continue July 21 on the topic of local egg farming and Aug. 4 on the effect of Roundup weedkiller on health.
Sessions are in the courtyard at the market, 2643 S. King St. Call 292-1179.
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Betty Shimabukuro, Star-Advertiser
