Local Writers Love LeiHut!

Posted on February 13, 2012 by alyssa

LeiHut is feeling the love on this sunny Hawaiian Valentine’s Day! Over the past few days we’ve gotten some fantastic write-ups. Check out what these writers had to say:

Erika Engle - “TheBuzz” columnist for the Business section of the Honolulu Star-Advertiser had a great article featuring LeiHut in the 2/13/12 edition of the paper. Subscribers can view an online version of the article here.

Lindsey Muraoka - a bloger for the “Food La La” of the Honolulu Pulse featured the LeiHut Valentine’s Spam Musubis in her recent post and even tried the recipe herself!

ING Direct Cafe Hawai‘i – helping entrepreneurs of all ages!

Posted on February 13, 2012 by alyssa

LeiHut Care Packs at ING Direct Cafe Waikiki

LeiHut care packages on display

The energetic orange folks at ING Direct Café Hawai‘i are supporting kid-biz and local small businesses by lending some shelf space to some of our awesome care packages! The LeiHut Island Fruits Care Package, Spam Musubi Care Package, and 100% Kona Coffee Care Package are on display and ready to be taken home today!

ING Direct Café cares about their community, with a special focus on kids. Ten percent of net proceeds from LeiHut care packages go to the non-profit Lemonade Alley, an organization that promotes business and financial literacy for children. ING Direct has partnered with Lemonade Alley to bring the competition from Hawai‘i to 7 other cities across the mainland U.S. this summer!

LeiHut Products for Charity at ING Direct

LeiHut 100% Kona Coffee Care Pack on display

For all you islanders who’d like to pick up a care package instead of having it shipped, be sure to stop by the café! You’ll be supporting a great cause and local Hawaiian businesses!

A Real Heart Stopper: Valentine’s Spam Musubi!

Posted on February 2, 2012 by alyssa

Want to make your valentine’s heart skip a beat? We’ve got a Hawaiian-style snack that’s sure to win their affection: Heart-Shaped Spam Musubi!

Spam musubi is one of the most popular snacks in Hawai‘i. Locals love them, and tourists who try them can’t get enough. We’ve made these onolicious treats available through a care package with all the ingredients and tools needed in a Deluxe Valentine’s Heart Musubi Care Package.

Start by getting that rice cooking and making heart-shaped Spam cutouts. You can also make toppings from scrambled eggs to add another fancy layer.

Cut Spam

If you’ve got a dog, they’re totally down for helping clean up the scraps!

Next, it’s time to fry… Get those hearts good and crispy!

To caramelize the Spam, mix 4 tbsp sugar with soy sauce. Place the mixture on medium-high heat and cook Spam until they get a nice glaze.

Caramelize Spam in Soy Sauce

Prep nori (seaweed) strips by cutting them into thin pieces, about a quarter inch thick. Then mold the rice using either the heart shape mold or the rectangle rice molder. Hint: wet the mold first to keep rice from sticking.

We sprinkled furikake (rice seasoning) to make our rice extra awesome.

To finish, stack spam and eggs on the rice and wrap with a nori (seaweed) strip.

Remember your presentation! We plated this heart-stopper with some rosey romance.

Last but not least, feed dem hungry dawgs!

NOTE: No animals were harmed or ate Spam in the making of this blog post!

Ready to make your own? Get your Valentine’s Spam Musubi Gift Pack. And be sure to LIKE US on Facebook and post an awesome Spam Pic on our Wall to be eligible to win a FREE Valentine’s Musubi Pack!

LeiHut is Proud to Sponsor Lemonade Alley!

Posted on August 21, 2011 by steve

LeiHut is amped to be part of the hugest lemonade stand competition ever! Coming in November, 12, 2011 at ‘Iolani School, Honolulu, 32 lucky finalist teams will build lemonade stands and sell lemonade for charity. Kid teams from Hawai‘i can win $1,000 in cash plus massive bragging rights.

But there’s More! Yep, 90+ vendor booths of Hawai‘i food, crafts and fun! Vendors, it’s not only craft season, it’s also being held during APEC Leaders Week, so we’re hoping to get at least one of the Obamas – or at least a few of the 20,000 international press people and 1,400 CEOs that’ll be in town. This may be your chance to be seen by the world!

Booths start at $100 – cheap no? So what are you waiting for? Our goal is to tip the island toward Diamond Head and lift Kaneohe out of the water – just a skochi anyways. So get hooked up for the biggest block party this island has ever seen! See Lemonade Alley Vendor Info

OH! And you all should know that this will be the first ever truly ECO-FRIENDLY Business Competition! Yep, the gang at BizGym.com has wired-up for all competition submissions to be submitted (a 1-page business plan is required to enter) electronically so we’re going paperless unlike the typical biz plan competition that prints reams of report documents! Come be part of a sustainable future!

Madre Hawaiian Chocolate. WOW!

Posted on August 18, 2011 by steve

OK, here’s what we have to say about Madre Chocolate, “Yikers wow!!!” Holy smokes, big, real-chocolate flavor, pure. A chocolate lover’s dream. And it’s grown and produced right here in Hawaii! Need more convincing? Check out this awesome video our friends Shirley and Stan from Chop Chop Media did on Madre:

Robert’s Ukeleles: Our First Photoshoot

Posted on August 17, 2011 by steve

A huge shout out and mahalo to Robert’s Ukeleles for being the first guinea pig photo subject for LeiHut! Thanks Robert for trusting us with armfuls of ukeleles in our pilgrimage to the little landscape strip of grass on the Kalakaua Street sidewalk.

The tourists thought we were nuts bending over ukeleles on that little piece of grass and quite a few of them took pictures of us taking pictures, but it was a beautiful sunset with beautiful instruments… and really ugly photographers. Hey, I’m talkin’ ’bout YOU Josh Friberg! Ahhahahahaaahahhaha!

LeiHut Goes Live!

Posted on August 16, 2011 by steve

We’ve been trolling around Hawai‘i hooking up vendors for a while now and the skipper says, “You guys need to fish or cut bait!” We’re like, “Huh?” So apparently he wants all that tasty stuff cut, and strung and SOLD!

So today we’re sailing into port to see if anyone wants the cool stuff we’ve dredged up. But since this is our first time ever, we know that some things may have slipped through the cracks so if anything stinks, please holler at us and we’ll hop to it right away to make things ship-shape. aloha!