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Habanera Gold
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Habanero Gold
November 6,2010
My wonderful husband brings in a large pan of Habanero peppers. For those of you that do not know it, these peppers are insanely hot. He said, “How about you ‘can’ these?” I thought “Into what?” I drag out the good ol’ Ball Canning book and looked up Habanero Pepper. I found a recipe called “Habanero Gold” and thought, “OK, I can try this.” The recipe is supposed to be for a sweet and sour hot jam that you serve with cheeses, kind of snooty for an ol’ country girl, but hey, I had to have something to do with the peppers.
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Habanero Gold Recipe
Ingredients:
Yield: 3/33Servings Size 250 ml jars
1/3 cup finely sliced dried apricot
3/4 cup white vinegar
1/4 cup finely diced red onion
1/4 cup finely diced red pepper
1/4 cup finely diced habanero peppers, with seeds or 1/4 cup finely diced jalapeno, and scotch bonnet peppers combined
3 cups white sugar
1 (3 ounce) envelope liquid pectin
Directions:Prep Time: 30 mins Total Time: 45 mins
1 Cut apricots into 1/8 inch slices and measure into large stainless steel saucepan with the vinegar; let stand for four hours.
2 Cut onions and peppers into 1/8 inch slices; cut slices into a 1/4 inch dice.
3 Add to apricots and stir in sugar.
4 Bring mixture to a full rolling boil.
5 Stirring constantly, boil hard for one minute.
6 Remove from heat and immediately stir in liquid pectin, mixing well.
7 Stir for about 3 minutes to mix solids, but put into jars before it gets too firm.
8 Pour into hot sterilized jars, dividing solids equally and fill to within 1/4 inch from the top of the jar.
9 Apply snap lids and process in boiling water bath for 5 minutes if you choose.
10 Once sealed you can rotate or invert jars while still warm to distribute solids if needed.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Due to the large quantity of peppers we had and the small amount required by this recipe, I decided to quadruple the recipe.
I cut the apricots and laid them to bed in the vinegar overnight, to tackle this project the next day, time enough for me to muster up the courage to deal with these peppers. Morning comes and goes and finally by afternoon I am brave. I pulled out my yellow and red bell peppers and my red onion and have fun chopping and dicing and using my Vidalia Chopper. Then came time to tackle the Habaneras. Sporting a lovely pair of latex gloves to protect my skin from pepper burn, I begin cutting the peppers in two and removing the seeds.
With the Habaneros, all split and deseeded it was time for the final rinse
Lo and behold as soon as they hit the water and the mist came up from the peppers I started to cough and gag and sneeze like crazy. I thought for sure I was going to die from anaphylactic shock right then and there. I go to the door and gasp for breath, call for my daughter to find the Benadryl and pull my shirt up over my nose. After taking a little pink pill and with my shirt still over my nose I return to the scene of the crime, the sink. I had left the water running this whole time so the peppers were rinsed well by the now. After draining them, determined to finish my project, I cut the peppers in the tiny cubes, all the while still coughing and sneezing and having to take breaks to get my breath.
Noticing that the “cup” of peppers I started with “halved” became a half cup “diced”, I decided that that was plenty of Habanera peppers for this recipe and I would just make up the difference with the extra bell peppers I had. With the Benadryl finally helping ease the allergic reaction I had, I wondered if I should risk the “cooking” process. I thought, “Gosh, if “spray off” from the silly things did that much to me, what on earth will the heated steam do?” Not brave enough to attempt this solo, I called in my hubby to sit with me through the rest of the canning process in case I really needed to have someone call 911 for me. Thank GOD for Benadryl because I got the stuff cooked and in jars with no more near death experiences.
I have to say I will never again attempt this recipe for fear for my life, even though it turned out to be a very pretty jar of Habanera Gold. My “mild” rendition of this turned out to have the taste of a very sweet jam with an afterburner hot pickled pepper effect, from the very tiny bit I tasted. It seems like it would be wonderful as a glaze to a brisket, that is if I wasn’t afraid it would kill me.
Photos were taken by Anna Husband
~Becky~
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Our Creek
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Our Creek
November 4,2010
We have gone walking all kinds of places around our area, we almost forgot we have a creek on our property. The lack of rain has given us a wonderful opportunity to be able to walk down our creek that is pretty much dry now. All that is left is a few pools of stagnant water, however pretty they may be with the fallen leaves gathered in it.The first thing my little monkey does is climb a tree, “Mom, look at me!” Adam shouts in accomplishment.
It is hard to believe as we walk over the dry ground that this creek can turn into a raging whirlpool that threatens to come out of its banks during the rainy season. Right now it seems so calm and peaceful.
Fallen trees litter the way, probably some of the reason the creek breaches its banks on occasion.
Austin calls, “Hey mom, are these spores on the back of these leaves?”
“Yep, sure are, good job spotting them,” I say after a quick investigation of a small fern growing out of the side of the bank. Botany class is paying off!
“Hey mom, take a picture.” Anna requests. Up a tree she and her brother go, both squabbling over the limelight.
A stump has been smoothed by the water rushing by it on so many occasions. A tree fell overhead of the creek, a reminder of Hurricane Rita. Orangey, the cat leads the way. There are only a few puddles in the creek bed now, probably left over from the recent rain we received earlier this week. Just enough mud to leave behind a nice set of footprints from our neighbors the Raccoons.
Adam is all boy. He does this trick of hanging upside down from one of the fallen trees across the creek. Not to be outdone, Anna copies, monkey see, monkey do. Austin thinks his brother and sister are crazy.
The high grass shows how long the ground has been dry. This area should be covered with water. Ahead lies a fallen tree that was here since we moved here, it is mostly rotten now.
We get to the trestle, long forgotten by the railroad. The train has not come through our town since the early 1990s. I remember as a child walking down to the train track and laying pennies on the rails hoping to get a squished penny from it, a treasure to a small country girl. With a closer inspection of the old trestle we see that the remains of it were put to good use, honey bees are using it for their honey fort. We leave them alone so they will continue to pollinate our garden each spring.
The little monkeys find the swinging vine and take turns swinging across the little gully as brother looks on with amusement.
Dad finds a bucket washed down from the rains, so he takes advantage of it while he waits by our fence for us to catch up. Donkey also waited impatiently for us to cross the fence. He wants his family in the fence if he has to be in there. We cross into the pasture, being careful of the ornery donkey and head home.
It was a very nice walk without ever leaving our land.
~Becky~
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Calhoun Point Trek
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Calhoun Point Trek
October 31, 2010
Another day of walking in the great outdoors was on our agenda. We headed out to what Stewart calls Calhoun Point but we had named “Dave’s Place” after my brother-in-law David who chose this as “his camping spot.” With our packs in tow, we head out to the expanding sandy beach that was created by the lack of rain. We saw a sandpiper walking along the shore, we got within a pretty good range of it but we turned away so we would not disturb it from getting its lunch. Austin came across a black caterpillar. I announce “Oh cool a Woolly Bear!”, hoping the kids thought I was talking about a real bear but I didn’t fool them any. Anna found a set of raccoon tracks “Mom, the back foot looks like a kids footprint!”
Where we were walking, was far enough out that if the water level had been where it should be, the water would have been over our heads. This made for an interesting view of what has been a camping spot before. Stewart walked up to a stump and said: ” Hey, I think this may have been where we put out our trot lines before.” I looked around viewing the place we would have been swimming and commented, “Well, at least, when we come back we don’t have to worry about the kids swimming out here, there is no drop offs.” We kept walking around the point and we come upon a rocky area.
Adam brings me a rock “Mom, this looks like it has Chinese writing on it!” I comment, “Well more like cuneiform we learned about in history but yes it does look like writing, but I think it is just “wear marks.” Austin brings a funny rock to me that looks like a skull. Anna is busy trying to get out on the rocky muddy mound without getting wet. “I can do it mom…really I can…”
Then Adam gets up on top of the hill. “Hi, mom!!” Then Anna comes up and takes the hill by storm. “Hee, hee,” she says with a grin, the little stinker.
Out on the next point was a very large expanse of beach. Stewart and I sit on an old log that was a piece of driftwood. It was a very scenic view from where I sat resting. Withs the kids out investigating the beach we enjoyed the peacefulness of GOD’s great world. We sat with full contentment watching the kids run races, play in the sand, and look at bugs. Adam comes up and sets with us to watch for a while, of course, he uses his monocular so he can see them better. “Mom, Anna is very far away!” he says, looking up I notice his monocular is turned around backward, on purpose of course.
“Mom, this is Fred. Fred is my friend. I want to keep Fred. I will take care of him and… and…”
Hmmm…”Anna, Fred needs to stay here, this is his home.”
“But Moooommm, I like him!”
“Yep, let’s get a picture so you can remember him.” “OK, now go toss Fred in the lake far out so he can live.”
By the way, in case you didn’t know, “Fred” is a freshwater mussel she had found.
We had our rest and it was time to head back. Stewart suggests we go back through the wooded trail instead of covering ground we had already covered. Austin found some briar trees that had no leaves, something that must be investigated during school. Adam found a piece of a log that looked like a hatchet, so he totes it around whacking on various bushes and trees with his “ax.” We walk and Adam swears we are not going the right way.
“What if we are lost. What if we never find our car. What if…What if…”
“Adam, trust me sweety, I know where we are going.”
I love spending a wonderful day with my family, I would not trade it for anything in the world. We laugh, learn, and love GOD’s beautiful gift to mankind, the outdoors.
~Becky~
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Harvesting the Corn
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Harvesting the Corn
November 1, 2010
We have tried for several years to grow corn in our garden. Most of the time we would get a few spindly stalks with no ears or we would grow great stalks with scrawny ears. This year after our purple hull harvest, Stewart had decided to plant some corn just to have something to grow in the pea patch. We assumed it would do poorly as it had in the past but much to our surprise it did really well.
Shucking corn by the pig pen seemed like the perfect place to do the job.
They would shuck the husks and toss them to our pot belly piggies and then cut off any bad spots and give them to the pigs or the donkey. Our little piggies thought they were in Heaven.
Adam comes up to me with corn silk on his head and says, “Mom, now I know how they make wigs!” I just love that child’s imagination.
We harvested over 290 ears of corn off of this small corn patch. We blanched and bagged right around 50-gallon bags of corn on the cob. Thank you, LORD, for such a bountiful harvest.
~Becky~
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