baby bell pepper

Look what we have here! Isn't she just adorable?

This is a red bell pepper plant that I grew from seed that I dried after eating the fruit. I am making sure to set it on the front porch on the weekends so it will get lucky, or, get pollinated at any rate. I figure the tomato's were cursed from the beginning since the balcony is screened.

I'm almost completely vegetarian now, though I will have a week here and there where I'm craving chicken or hot dogs.

I make it a weekly practice to soak dry beans; lentil, black, etc., for use as side dishes and in recipes. It's such a simple thing to do, I wonder why we ever got used to buying them in cans. I have learned to boil them on a lower heat than high so that the beans don't break up and shed their skin. I would like to find a place to buy the beans in bulk and learn about the shelf life. I've made bean sprouts from the lentils, but would prefer soybean and alfalfa sprouts.

My Publix has changed the vendor for their organic produce from Noah's Farm in Sarasota to a vendor from South America. The flavor is just not "there". On the other hand, they are stocking an organic orange juice from Clermont and it's very good.