Peter picked a peck of pickled peppers...

Last harvest of peppers from our garden:

Clockwise from top left is green bell peppers, cayenne peppers, Anaheim peppers, habanero peppers, poblano peppers, and piment d'espelette. Unfortunately, the cold weather prevented the bell peppers from turning orange and the cayenne and espellette from turning red. Still, pretty good pepper harvest for December!

And my proudest accomplishment of the week is baking a pumpkin pound cake ALL BY MYSELF while home alone with a 4 month old baby. And, it's VERY tasty, especially with a nice cup of coffee!


Gropius, Louisa, and I also got our Christmas tree tonight, too. It's funny how trees always look shorter in the tree lot...

Weekend Meal

On Sunday, Gropius prepared a delicious meal of filet mignon with bordelaise sauce from the latest issue of Saveur magazine. We have plenty of rotkohl (red cabbage) in the freezer from our garden, so we defrosted some of that and made parnsip-mashed potatoes to have on the side. Very tasty!

look at that glossy sauce!

I know, the meat should be less done, but I don't like my meat on the rare side, so Gropius let my serving sit in the oven while he finished the meal, so it should be done the way I like it.