Archive for the ‘Food’ Category

Tags: camo chicken tractor, carrots, Chickens, garden, pollitos

So apparently, I suck at growing carrots. This is what my carrots look like after being in the ground for over 6 months… The carrots I grew:

Tags: french peanut, nuts, Pachira Glabra, tropical plants

When we bought our house in Rincon, Puerto Rico, one of the first things we started doing was planting trees. Before we even had electricity or running water, Stefan and I were swinging the pickaxe in the yard and planting all the trees we could get our hands on! Now that a few years have [...]

The noni fruit grows really well here in Puerto Rico and has been touted as an amazing antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, immune system booster and all-around good for you food. The only problem? It tastes/smells even more disgusting then it looks… The noni that I picked from our tree today: Just smelling a ripe noni makes me [...]

Today was a great day. These three photos are from today. We have three mango trees planted on the property that may one day grow us delicious mangos like this one. The mature mango trees we have are all ‘con fibre’ which are really stringy. This will be the fourth pineapple we have grown in [...]

Tags: how to make jam, papaya, papaya jam, recipes, tropical fruit, yum

Apparently papaya is easy to grow because we have papaya trees popping up all over the property! Another nice thing about papaya is that they produce fruit very quickly. Where as citrus/avocado trees take several years to start producing fruit, papayas start producing fruit in a year or less. Unfortunately, I am not a big [...]

Yeah, that’s right. I said it. I am going to lay claim to the best coffee in Puerto Rico. Before I tell you that Cafe Rico makes the best whole bean coffee, I need to set the foundation of what kind of coffee drinker I am. Here is a shot; I would prefer no coffee [...]

Tags: bell peppers, cucumber, edibles, garden, spicy lettuce, vegetables

What’s on the menu tonight? Well, spicy lettuce, green bell peppers and a cucumber may not sound that exciting to you, but these are all things that we are eating tonight that we grew in our garden! It’s so cool to finally be producing our own food since when we bought this property it was pretty barren (except for the salsa trees and pica pica).

Tags: Food, fruit, Gardening, trees, vegetables, Yard

Right before we left for our two month excursion to California & New Jersey, I was walking around our property checking out the plants. One of the first things that we planted were a few little banana trees and they have gotten quite large. Since they havn’t produced any fruit, I was wondering if perhaps [...]

Summer and I are big into exercise, but in totally different ways. We both like to get exercise doing things we love to do (surfing, snorkeling, yard work) but don’t always have the chance to do it together, especially now that surfing is not really an option for Summer. When I left California I was [...]

Summer and I have heard from both sides regarding grocery shopping in Rincon and we have been on both sides regarding the availability and consistency of the Econo grocery store. This month, I can only say that Econo is consistently inconsistent when it comes to carrying products that are on our grocery list. For example, [...]