Thursday, November 6, 2008

Mr. Pumpkinhead

Thought I'd do a quick post just to show some of the last of our peppers. We decided to go ahead and pick everything worth picking since it had been threatening to get down close to freezing. We gave away a bunch of these. Just no way we could've eaten all of them.

I wish we had more that ripened to red. They're just so much sweeter and tastier when they're red. Our friends at the Milkweed Diaries have an interesting post on peppers. They've grown a variety and note that green peppers aren't easy for our bodies to digest. I think there's some truth in that. We went to see an acupuncturist once and he looked at my tongue and told me I should cut down on all the raw veggies. He recommended a book called the Tao of Healthy Eating by Bob Flaws. I picked it up but haven't read it yet.

Remember those pumpkins that I was psyched about having finally grown? Well, they weren't going to last until Halloween, so we used them to create some funny/scary figures: