Tacos are a terrific midweek meal because they cook up fast and don’t require a lot of preparation, other than some chopping and dicing of ingredients. This super-easy steak taco recipe hits all the right notes with its flavorful chili-lime marinade and array of colorful toppings, many of them in bountiful supply at local farmers markets and roadside farm stands.

Sometimes the best way to change the way you cook is to not cook at all.

An amakihi enjoys a bite at Hawaii Volcanoes National Park.

A cactus orchid — Epiphyllum — called “Miss America” blooms in Kailua-Kona.

Setting sunlight creates golden hues at Koloko-Honokohau National Historical Park in Kailua-Kona.

Maui wears her cloud lei as seen from Kona.Maui wears her cloud lei as seen from Kona.

In New Traditional style, there is room for both the new and the traditional. While we draw upon tried-and-true traditional elements, we always leave room for the new, and often that means looking to trends to spice things up. One color we couldn’t be more excited about right now? Brown!

A plant shows of its gorgeous purple blooms.

A zig-zag heliconia blooms in Kona.

Juvenile Eagle rays or yihimanu take buddy system in Keauhou Bay.

A royal poinsettia shows off its colors.

It’s peach season. Time to pull out your rolling pin and celebrate the juicy stone fruit with the free-form pastry known as a crostata.

MINNEAPOLIS — The Guam-born siblings behind the vegan “meat” shop Herbivorous Butcher have a new cookbook that guides and encourages readers to make their own plant-based meat substitutes and offers a variety of recipes built upon proteins like “faux gras,” carrot lox and even a vegan porterhouse steak.

You don’t often get a chance to admire a rainbow shower tree from this close up. It’s lovely but has no fragrance.

A red hibiscus blooms in Kona.