1. Lately, I've been on a salsa making kick. I bought a book from the Santa Fe School of cooking with nothing but recipes for tacos and salsas. I've made salsa verde, roasted tomato salsa, red chili salsa, chipotle salsa, roasted pineapple salsa and orange & grapefruit salsa. Some have been great, other kind of sucky. I usually take them to work and let the staff assess how well they turn out. So far they've been pretty impressed.
Today, we had some company for dinner, so I decided to make a new salsa to go along with fish tacos. But, there was one problem. I couldn't find any prickly pears at the grocery store. Fortunately, we have plenty of cactus and prickly pears around here. It was actually kind of exciting to reap part of dinner from the yard. I don't think I've ever done that. (we don't do gardens).
The recipe looked like this:
As it turned out, cutting the spines off this particular pear was really tough. I ended up getting little spines all over the counter and in my hands.
2. Many people don't like snakes, but little boys almost always do. My dad would have never pulled over to take a picture of this beauty and it was particularly ironic because I was driving his car.
3. We have great biking trails all over the neighborhood. Max and I went on a little ride this weekend and did this:
5 comments:
A lovely piece of sharing, my dear. An airstream at sunset is a truly affecting thing. I think I might have stayed pretty clear of the striped beasty, and I'd have been worried about the spines too - did you eat any in the end? How come you didn't make any salsa so I could have it for breakfast last week?
Pretty brave harvesting the prickly pear
Very cool snake---I think it's a bull snake.
And way to go Max rolling out of the tunnel.
Love to all
Grampa Guy
That snake alone would have me never leaving the house. The gardener snakes around here are bad enough for me!!!
Well done Maxx on riding down the ramp!! Done like a professional!
Very cool Airstream at dusk. That thing is huge!
Have you guys tried prickly pear fruit jelly yet? Believe it or not, that's what they served on the PB&J sandwiches in my elementary school cafeteria in Tucson. I bet when your prickly pears fruit, you could make your own, and the fruit has the bonus of not having spines!
The salsa looks really good. I can't wait to try some you make but maybe not the prickly pear one. Good try though.
Airstream looks great and Max did an awesome job of taking on the ramp. He looks great in his bike riding gear.
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