Wednesday, November 01, 2006

Keeping Warm in Winter


Above was my early October ripe jalapeño harvest. Below are the green and half-ripened jalapeños that I harvested just before our first frost of the season. All of these peppers came from just seven plants, each about a foot tall. This was definitely a banner year for jalapeños. My tomato plants did not enjoy such a prolific year.



My favorite use for these peppers is jalapeño cornbread. But some will be macerated into chutney, and I may just break down and make some chicken vindaloo.

1 Comments:

At November 06, 2006 7:18 AM, Blogger ericswan said...

Essene fair...
"How shall we cook our daily bread without fire, Master?" asked some with great astonishment.

"Let the angels of God prepare your bread. Moisten your wheat, that the angel of water may enter it. Then set it in the air, that the angel of air also may embrace it. And leave it from morning to evening beneath the sun, that the angel of sunshine may descend upon it. And the blessing of the three angels will soon make the germ of life to sprout in your wheat. Then crush your grain, and make thin wafers, as did your forefathers when they departed out of Egypt, the house of bondage. Put them back again beneath the sun from its appearing, and when it is risen to its highest in the heavens, turn them over on the other side that they be embraced there also by the angel of sunshine, and leave them there until the sun be set. For the angels of water, of air, and of sunshine fed and ripened the wheat in the field, and they, likewise, must prepare also your bread. And the same sun which, with the fire of life, made the wheat to grow and ripen, must cook your bread with the same fire. For the fire of the sun gives life to the wheat, to the bread, and to the body. But the fire of death kills the wheat, the bread and the body. And the living angels of the living God serve only living men. For God is the God of the living., and not the God of the dead.

"So eat always from the table of God: the fruits of the trees, the grain and grasses of the field, the milk of beasts, and the honey of bees. For everything beyond these is of Satan, and leads by the way of sins and diseases unto death. But the foods which you eat from the abundant table of God give strength and youth to your body, and you will never see disease. For the table of God fed Methuselah of old, and I tell you truly, if you live even as he lived, then will the God of the living give you also long life upon the earth as was his."

 

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