Thursday, July 24, 2008

Blogfade?

I know we haven't been very good about updating here, but the past 6 months has been pretty hectic for both of us. We haven't given up on new food and recipes and several times have said, "We should put this in the blog!". Obviously, though, it's easier to say that than sit down and type it out (not much easier, but apparently there is significant enough activation energy that we aren't getting to it).

That all said, I am planning to get in here and add some updates to the food we've been experimenting with. For instance, we have made Jerk Chicken several times, recently. Jerk Chicken is an attractive recipe for us because it uses Habanero peppers. Currently we have 4 large Habanero plants producing, along with 2 Cayenne and 3 Jalapeno plants. Unfortunately, these are our seemingly only successful gardening this year.

We did get one of our tomatoes, beating last year's total by one. We have discovered that green tomatoes are a delicacy to the colony of groundhogs that live in the woods behind our house. Our landlords are trying an organic animal repellent that seems to be having some success as the predation has dropped off. Hopefully, now we'll see some tomatoes ripening. Emma (our little black kitty) would really appreciate this, as she has a connoisseur's taste for heirloom tomatoes.

Anyway, like I said, I plan on getting some more updates here. I'll get the Jerk Chicken recipe up soon, hopefully, and then move into some of the other neat foods we've been trying.

-Nick