Recipes

Wet

1½  cups overripe bananas (375g)

1 1⁄4  cups brown sugar  (225g)

2 tsp vanilla paste (12g extract may be substituted)

2 large eggs

½ cup fed sourdough starter (100g)

1⁄4 cup milk 

1 packet dry yeast (7g)

 ⅓ cup canola oil, melted butter, etc (100g)

Dry

2 cups AP flour (250g)

1⁄4 tsp fine salt (plus coarse salt for top)

1 cup macadamia nuts, chopped (130g)

1) Heat milk to lukewarm. Add yeast and a pinch of sugar. Add sourdough starter. Allow to bloom.

2) Once yeast has bloomed, Bananas, sugar, vanilla into mixer 

3) Add eggs one at a time until incorporated

4) Slowly incorporate the dry ingredients and half the nuts. Add one-third of the oil each time you add flour.

5) Let batter rise.  (Yeast strength dependent)

6) Pour batter into parchment-lined loaf pan. Top with remaining nuts. Bake 30-40 minutes. Test with toothpick.

1 whole chicken, cleaned and patted dry

2-4 tablespoons of Monkey King Coffee Huli Huli Chicken rub

If oven roasting, pre-heat oven to 350f

If grilling, cook on indirect heat

If smoking, heat smoker to 225f (best method -- use coffee wood for ultimate flavor)

Clean a whole chicken, remove giblets (if necessary) and pat dry. 

Sprinkle Monkey King Huli Rub liberally inside and out.

If you have a meat injecting syringe, inject a huli "tea."

If roasting or grilling, a vertical "beer can" stand is ideal. 

Cook chicken to an internal temperature of 165f

1 Beef roast -- tri-tip, prime rib, rib roast are ideal

Monkey King Coffee coffee rub for beef

* Clean and trim roast, allow to come to room temperature

* Liberally salt beef and sear in a hot cast iron pan, hot grill, or even a broiler

* Once a good, even color is obtained, rest beef for five minutes

* Cover beef liberally with Monkey King coffee rub -- work rub into beef

* Finish beef in a low oven, smoker, indirect heat on a grill or vacuum seal and cook in an immersion bath

* Cook to an internal temperature of 120f and rest for 15 to 30 minutes depending on the size of the roast