Random bits

Another weekend is up me. It's just started to unexpectedly rain. Neat.

There's not a lot going on. Got some sweet food at the farmer's market this morning, including some raw sheeps milk gouda that was pretty tasty when I sampled it, local organic raspberries, and some extremely tasty tomato-basil pasta sauce from a new vendor. This particular fellow had all manner of things, including homemade ravioli and a variety of homemade sauce. I also got some Bolognese which he claimed had almost 3/4lb of meat in the 1lb tub of sauce. We shall see!

Anyway, the real point of this update was to share a couple of photos I snapped this morning. Again, this set is definitely a lot more informational than cool looking. First, my dinner as of 8am:

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This is an excellent crock pot roast I've made a couple of times before. It's super-easy, just chop up some carrots, onions, nd celery, brown a roast, throw it all in the crock pot along with some tomatoes and seasonings, cook for 10-12 hours and you're left with a super-yummy roast that lasts for days on end.

Wow, the sky really just opened up. So much for the sunny day we were promised.

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Anyway, the full recipe for dinner can be found here. I don't think I've made any modifications other than using almost double the amount of veggies to make it feel a bit healthier. I think I'll probably make some rosemary roasted potatoes with fresh rosemary from the deck along with some thyme I got from my wonderful earlier this week. Probably with some Portuguese dinner rolls I picked up at the Fresh Market.

Speaking of the garden, here are some quick snaps from this morning. First off, the might Habanero!

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It's been doing extremely well. I think I picked it up at the farmer's market 2 or 3 weeks ago, and it's thrived on the deck. I'm definitely going to have far more Habaneros than I can use. Next up, Jalapeno #1 and the Poblano:

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The jalapenos aren't performing as well as I might have liked, but I think I'll have at least enough for a batch or two of salsa. Yum!

Finally, a slightly out-of-focus shot of the the banana peppers, green bell #1, red bell, and green bell #2 plants:

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There are quite a few shriveled up buds/flowers on the bell peppers. I suspect I let them go at day too long without watering :( Still, with bell peppers normally at $1.50 each, if I get 2 peppers from each plants I'm ahead of the game. I think that's it for now. Peace.