PUHI — Seth Peterson and Paulette Morrissey are two cooks with a big problem. They don’t have a kitchen. Peterson and Morrissey had samples of doughnuts they created and were met with overwhelming approval for the product they were offering
PUHI — Seth Peterson and Paulette Morrissey are two cooks with a big problem. They don’t have a kitchen.
Peterson and Morrissey had samples of doughnuts they created and were met with overwhelming approval for the product they were offering on Saturday at the Kaua‘i Community Market at Kaua‘i Community College.
“We need to find a kitchen with a fryer,” said Peterson, who had developed his doughnut offering over the past year. “We’ve got the product. We just need to find a kitchen.”
Melissa McFerrin, the coordinator of the Kaua‘i Community Market where the couple had their doughnut samples, said she referred them to a vendor who had plans for a commercial kitchen.
“This is one of the best parts of the community markets,” said McFerrin, who represents the Kaua‘i County Farm Bureau.
“The networking which takes place between vendors and producers is really good. It provides the growers with more venues for the product they produce. And for the producers, it is a means of supporting local,” she said.
John McClure of Moloa‘a Bay Coffee, a regular vendor at the farm bureau-coordinated markets, agreed, cutting into a sample for further tasting.
“Seth buys products from the market and turns them into the glazes for these doughnuts, which are really good,” McClure said. “We need to help them out. This banana sake one is really good. You can barely taste the sake.”
Sake, a Japanese rice wine, is combined with bananas from the local farmers market and was just one of four samples offered by Peterson and Morrissey.
Sandy Poehnelt of The Right Slice, a vendor selling pies, said her favorite was the honey rosemary doughnut.
“We need to help them out,” Poehnelt said. “Remember when we came and how long we were looking before we finally found our kitchen?”
Peterson said they also offered mango mint and tangerine thyme doughnuts. The fruit was purchased at local markets. He said the honey is from Chris Kauwe, another Kaua‘i Community Market vendor.
“The herbs are from our backyard,” Peterson said. “We combine all of these to create the doughnut glazes.”
The doughnuts can be enjoyed with the glaze already placed, or in a separate container for dipping with doughnut holes.
Morrissey said other flavors which were not available Saturday include chocolate butter cream with jalapeno jelly.
She said her favorite is the orange zest with goat cheese filling.
McFerrin said Peterson and Morrissey were going through the process of applying for consideration in the weekly markets, which include sites at the KCC parking lot on Saturdays and The Shops at Kukui‘ula on Wednesday afternoons.
She said interested vendors appear almost weekly and, because of this, each weekly market offers new products.
“They came to drop off their application and had samples. They need to have samples, and now, they need to find a kitchen,” McFerrin said. “A kitchen with a fryer.”
