my akamai cousin

been working hard to create a series of lessons about hawaii to teach the last 2 weeks of school. got a box of goodies from my cousin kris this afternoon to help teach the unit. i was trying to think of food to share at the mini luau that i was going to do the last day of the unit...it's hard to do all the authentic foods because: 1) many ingredients are not available to me here in texas 2) the cost of buying the ingredients that are available to me would be too much to spend out of my own pocket 3) rules about bringing food to school (store bought items only-although i'll bend the rules by making and bringing the haupia!). as you can see, kris came up with some great alternatives to share that will be easy to serve and/or have little preparation! so akamai (for my haole friends, akamai means smart), you are kris!!! mahalo for helping out!!!