Submissions sought from young cooks

Aspiring chefs ages 8 to 17 can still submit recipes for the Healthy Lunchtime Challenge for Keiki contest that’s part of this year’s Hawaii Food & Wine Festival. The original July deadline has been extended through Aug. 10.

Participants must submit an original recipe or a creative, healthful twist on an old recipe that has no more than 10 ingredients and takes 10 steps or fewer to prepare. The dish must include at least one fresh, locally grown ingredient.

Contestants with the top three recipes in two age categories — 8 to 12 and 13 to 17 — will prepare their dish Sept. 6 at the Honolulu Zoo to be judged live by celebrity chefs Nobu Matsuhisa (Nobu Waikiki), Jason Fox (Commonwealth in San Francisco) and Iron Chef Hiroyuki Sakai.

Winners will get a "Keiki Night Out" for 10 at Roy’s Restaurant or Alan Wong’s and a two-night stay at the Outrigger Reef on the Beach of the Outrigger Waikiki.

For details, visit hsalinks.com/youngchefcontest.

Make kukui nut relish at Saturday workshop

Sllow Food Oahu and Paepae o He’eia are holding an inamona (kukui nut relish) workshop, 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday at Paepae o He’eia’s site, 46-077 Ipuka St. in Kaneohe.

Learn to select, crack and roast the nut, and get tips on storage and use in dishes such as poke.

Bring a hammer, a pint Mason jar and a potluck dish to share.

Cost is $25. Seating is limited. Reserve a spot at hsalinks.com/ 1nGW1Xd. Call 236-6178.

Bishop Museum to hold celebration-fundraiser

Tickets are still available for Bishop Museum’s 125th-anniversary celebration and fundraiser.

From 5 to 9 p.m. Saturday, the museum’s Great Lawn will be filled with dishes from local restaurants including Roy’s, Sansei Seafood Restaurant & Sushi Bar, 12th Ave Grill, Tango, Nico’s, Prima and more. There will also be a wine bar and live entertainment.

The tax-deductible tickets are $350, available at hsalinks.com/ strollingtickets. Proceeds benefit the museum’s exhibition fund.

Takeout luau dishes offered by local church

Enjoy a luau at home by purchasing an 11-course luau box from the United Church of Christ-Judd Street’s 58th annual Benefit Takeout Luau, 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Aug. 16.

The $25 box includes kalua pork, lomi salmon, chicken long rice, poi, raw fish, opihi, ogo, sweet potato, fresh pineapple, haupia and kulolo.

The fundraiser benefits the Susannah Wesley Community Center, which offers social services to residents in the Kalihi-Palama area; and Adult Friends for Youth, which provides therapeutic prevention and mental health programs for at-risk youth.

On Aug. 16 the church parking lot at 467 N. Judd St. will become a drive-thru pickup station.

For tickets, call the church office 7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Mondays to Fridays at 536-8418. Six dollars of the ticket price is tax deductible.

On Aug. 14 at 4:30 p.m., visitors can watch church members prepare and place the pig in an imu for the luau’s kalua pork dish.