This all started several months ago. Actually probably sometime last year, but either way, this process has been a long time coming. We talked about installing a new hood above our range, we wanted one that would now vent outside instead of venting back into our face. (Honestly it never vented in our face, but it would have it we were a little taller.)
Unless you were really looking, you might not notice, but we changed our URL. We used to be donandcorrine.com, but we figured that since we are now more then just Don & Corrine, we should change our name. We can now be found at thekidds.us or kiddclan.org, all will work so take your pick, use whichever you want. I will work on changing some of our header pictures, but it takes some time. I have upgrade my computer to Snow Leopard, and I am currently having trouble with Gimp, so once I get that working, I will change the header pictures, I have a few picked out, just need to crop them to size.
So in case you haven’t heard we are having a baby boy. We had our latest ultra sound recently, and we were able to tell that it was going to be a boy. That’s cool. we would be happy with either, but Corrine and I were talking a few weeks ago, and thought that it would be cooler to have an older brother instead of an older sister, so we are excited to have a little baby boy. Keep checking back later to find out the name.
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So last week we canned 7 cans of tomato sauce. It took 22 pounds of tomatoes to make the seven pints. After that long process, the tomatoes are still growing, so we have more and more out there. With the next set of tomatoes, I think we are going to make some more tomato sauce, and I think we will also make some salsa. Here are the pictures I took of our last 2 harvests.
The picture on the left is actually a box full on tomatoes that I picked on Tuesday and the picture on the right is our harvest from Thursday. We’ll see how many tomatoes we get tomorrow, since it seems that we pick tomatoes every other day.
In case you can’t see it we are still harvesting green peppers, some eggplants and even an occasional zucchini, and maybe this week we’ll get some of that lettuce I planted about a month ago.
Since we are now getting more eggplants (finally!) we decided to experiment with a copycat recipe of PF Chang’s spicy eggplant dish, which a friend had mentioned loving.
Since we didn’t have chili paste on hand, we used red curry paste instead, which made it a little milder probably. And we made our own bean paste by food processing fermented black beans which we already had on hand (which by the way is really good with braised pork ribs). We may use a little less next time, we used 1t instead of 1/2 this time since it wasn’t really a “paste.”
The main addition was the chicken, just 1 large breast fillet for us two, sliced into 1/4″ slices…since Don doesn’t eat vegetarian meals 
Also added some sliced green peppers from the garden for variety.
The result was pretty good! Too bad I didn’t think to take a picture, maybe next time!
