Wednesday, August 26, 2009
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Wednesday, August 12, 2009
Whazzat???
At first we thought it was a hummingbird at our butterfly bush because it hovered like a hummingbird, but upon closer inspection (with the zoom lens) it looked more like a bug than a bird. Anyone know what this is?
Sunday, August 9, 2009
dinner recipe, videos, pics, oh my!
Here was our dinner last night, it was yummy:
Guava-Glazed Pork Tenderloin with Cilantro-Jalapeno Salsa
pork:
1 T veg oil
1 or 2 T minced onion
1 garlic clove, minced
7 ounces guava paste, chopped (comes in rectangular packets in the Mexican aisle, could probably also sub apricot jam, etc.)
1/2 cup water
1 T soy sauce
1 T ketchup
1 t cayenne
2 3/4-pound pork tenderloins
salsa:
1/2 cup chopped cilantro
a bit of vegetable oil (to get everything wet; they called for 1/3 cup but I used a lot less)
1/4 cup white wine vinegar
1/4 cup minced onion
2 T chopped chives (we used because we had in the garden, but these aren't necessary at all. I mean, chives don't actually have any flavor...)
2 jalapenos, minced (all depends on hotness; I used one seeded and minced, and 1 unseeded and minced)
1 garlic clove, minced
to make pork:
Heat oil in small saucepan. Add onion and garlic and cook until soft, a few minutes. Add guava paste and water and cook, stirring, until paste has dissolved, about 5 minutes. Stir in soy sauce, ketchup, and cayenne.
Brush pork tenderloins with glaze, broil or grill until done, applying glaze as necessary. Top with remaining glaze.
to make salsa:
In a bowl, mix the cilantro, oil, vinegar, onion, chives, jalapenos, and garlic.
Slice pork. Serve with salsa. We ate with baby carrots from the garden and broccoli rabe.
A few cute videos:
This is Evangeline standing on her own. She thinks it's fun:
This is an old video (from June 2nd) but Jon and I find it really hilarious...
Lastly, Evangeline knows something good is in that Dr. Pepper can, but she doesn't really have the concept down yet...
Lastly, here are some pics, a few from July on our camera, the rest from around here...
Guava-Glazed Pork Tenderloin with Cilantro-Jalapeno Salsa
pork:
1 T veg oil
1 or 2 T minced onion
1 garlic clove, minced
7 ounces guava paste, chopped (comes in rectangular packets in the Mexican aisle, could probably also sub apricot jam, etc.)
1/2 cup water
1 T soy sauce
1 T ketchup
1 t cayenne
2 3/4-pound pork tenderloins
salsa:
1/2 cup chopped cilantro
a bit of vegetable oil (to get everything wet; they called for 1/3 cup but I used a lot less)
1/4 cup white wine vinegar
1/4 cup minced onion
2 T chopped chives (we used because we had in the garden, but these aren't necessary at all. I mean, chives don't actually have any flavor...)
2 jalapenos, minced (all depends on hotness; I used one seeded and minced, and 1 unseeded and minced)
1 garlic clove, minced
to make pork:
Heat oil in small saucepan. Add onion and garlic and cook until soft, a few minutes. Add guava paste and water and cook, stirring, until paste has dissolved, about 5 minutes. Stir in soy sauce, ketchup, and cayenne.
Brush pork tenderloins with glaze, broil or grill until done, applying glaze as necessary. Top with remaining glaze.
to make salsa:
In a bowl, mix the cilantro, oil, vinegar, onion, chives, jalapenos, and garlic.
Slice pork. Serve with salsa. We ate with baby carrots from the garden and broccoli rabe.
A few cute videos:
This is Evangeline standing on her own. She thinks it's fun:
This is an old video (from June 2nd) but Jon and I find it really hilarious...
Lastly, Evangeline knows something good is in that Dr. Pepper can, but she doesn't really have the concept down yet...
Lastly, here are some pics, a few from July on our camera, the rest from around here...
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Sunday, August 2, 2009
East with Eva
I used to post a link so you could go to the web album, but I don't know how to find the URL in the latest Picasa 3 I just downloaded to our home computer. So . . . here's what I know: in kshuff2's Picasa Web Albums there should be one album, and it's called East with Eva Jul 09. Sign-in is required to view it (because I told it so). If anyone knows how to link with a URL, please let me know. A few of the photos are repetitive because I am using the blog and web album to get the photos to Laura and Jon so they can choose the ones they like.
- Dad
Thursday, July 30, 2009
Hot hot hot hot
Hey...no posts for a full month...that's no fun!
In case you hadn't heard we happened to set a little record here today.
http://www.komonews.com/news/local/51988007.html
103 degrees in Seattle, the hottest day in this city ever recorded for any date. Also set a record for the first day to never drop below 70 degrees at any point overnight. Right now Liz and I are doing pretty much all we can just to stay alive. Lots of trips to the water, to friends with pools and to malls or other places with AC as our condo is well into the high 80s much of the day.
For pictures, I present to you our trip to Discovery Park (basically the furthest west point in Seattle proper) and our weekend trip to visit some friends in Portland. Portland was kinda fun as the day we went down they were having an historic wood boat show and water ski expo. There were lots of nice looking Cris-crafts (spelling?) so I snapped a few pics for Dad.
http://picasaweb.google.com/ian.huff/MoreSummer#
~E
In case you hadn't heard we happened to set a little record here today.
http://www.komonews.com/news/local/51988007.html
103 degrees in Seattle, the hottest day in this city ever recorded for any date. Also set a record for the first day to never drop below 70 degrees at any point overnight. Right now Liz and I are doing pretty much all we can just to stay alive. Lots of trips to the water, to friends with pools and to malls or other places with AC as our condo is well into the high 80s much of the day.
For pictures, I present to you our trip to Discovery Park (basically the furthest west point in Seattle proper) and our weekend trip to visit some friends in Portland. Portland was kinda fun as the day we went down they were having an historic wood boat show and water ski expo. There were lots of nice looking Cris-crafts (spelling?) so I snapped a few pics for Dad.
http://picasaweb.google.com/ian.huff/MoreSummer#
~E
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