Beauty and the Beast?

It has been an unseasonably cold late December and January this year.  We have not been able to get out on our road bikes since mid-December but yesterday everything is feeling like the weather is returning to normal. It was invigorating to be outside riding again, I just hope this will continue and not just be an early taunt by Mother Nature.

On a secondary note, we are seeing lots of these signs going up in Morelia.  It is great to see Michoacán supporting safe biking.

One Meter Clearance

Outstanding grilled prawns served over a salad of arugula and fennel.

Yesterday when we were up in Morelia doing to shopping I spied these awesome looking prawns.  Sure they were frozen but they looked quite good so we brought them home for dinner last night.

Jo Ann then butterflied the prawns.

Outstanding grilled prawns served over a salad of arugula and fennel.

The prawns only required 3 1/2 minutes on the BBQ and then we served them over a salad of arugula and fennel, both fresh from our garden.

Outstanding grilled prawns served over a salad of arugula and fennel.

Winter gardening is more challenging but the results are worth it!

This is the first year that Jo Ann has had her green house and the raised beds for her gardening.  The results have been wonderful, especially considering that the over night lows have been in the 2 to 4° C temperatures. The cold weather crops are doing great, some under the cover cloth and some as shown below not covered.

Winter gardening is more challenging but the results are worth it!

In the green house we have probably 100 tomato starts of various types, none of which we can get locally. I am already dreaming of our mozzarella and tomato salad that we should be able to start enjoying by May!

Winter gardening is more challenging but the results are worth it!

Winter gardening is more challenging but the results are worth it!

Garlic and Rosemary from our garden

Picked from our garden yesterday and used in our dinner last night.

If you are looking for a great soul warming chicken recipe, check out Italian Mt. Etna Chicken. It was amazing as I hope the following image shows.

Italian Mt. Etna Chicken

Mercado Cobb Salad

One of the joys of living in Pátzcuaro is the availability of fresh and local produce.  We went shopping on Monday and made this salad that evening made up of entirely local and fresh products.  The bacon is from the Carnicería del Norte, the eggs from a lady who sells eggs and local honey and the other vegetables from a variety of the local farmers. The only product that was not local was the Gorgonzola cheese, which we did get at the Superama market up in Morelia. Such flavor and at a fraction of the cost that something like this would be up north of the border.

Come down and enjoy Pátzcuaro, you will enjoy it.