Chili Peppers

I love hot peppers. I love them roasted put into salsas, on top of burgers, on nachos, just about anyway you can eat a pepper I love them. When we are in the states people ask us what do you miss in-regards to food. My response seems funny to most. I miss Salsa and hot foods.

Here in Honduras we do not get to enjoy a lot of hot foods (Spicy). Most Hondurans do not like the really spicy foods. Even though they have bottles of hot sauce on the table ready for every meal.

One day last fall when I was in the market I found a bag of habenaro's and thought I struck gold. The ladies in the market thought it was funny, they made a face indicating the peppers were horid and would set you on fire. True it may be tough to handle if your not use to eating and preparing them. I brought the habenaro's back to the farm with a couple different varities of tomatoes and made my own salsa. The ladies in the kitchen thought I had lost my mind and when Suyapa tried some of the habenaro salsa, she looked like she was going to cry. Lets just say it was a little on the hot side. When we would eat the salsa they would just watch us and laugh and waited for something to happen.

Today I am trying something new. I planted two seed packets. One is a mix of cayeene, hungarian wax, serrano, habenaro, hot cherry and other hot chili types. The other is a packet of hungarian hot wax peppers. Several years ago I planted some Jalapeno's in Fayetteville and they grew ok. But this is a first for me to try to do here in Honduras. So here I begin a blog on my chili pepper growing adventure. I pray it is a success and can not wait to be writting updates on how the peppers are growing. And ultimately making my own salsa out of my own home grown chilis.

Happy and Healthy New Year of 2011

One of my many New Year resolutions is to keep posts up to date on this Blog. Here is my first of many (hopefully)

Our latest update that was sent out today: (if you would like to be on our email update list, let me know!)

Hello all! We hope this finds you happy and healthy in the new year of 2011!
We have been very blessed here in the United States, and our time is
coming to an end. Our appointments have been God directed, our visits
have been God centered, and our time has been surrounded by God!
Needless to say we have been truly blessed.

We have just purchased our tickets to return to Honduras on January
18, 2011. So, I know there are a few of you that have expressed
interest in seeing us - please get back with us and we will try to get
our schedules worked out.
Our Christmas was beyond blessed in many ways, and we are looking
forward to our coming year being blessed in Honduras!
We look forward to hearing from each of you in the coming year... even
if it is just for a prayer request. We love hearing from you.

We have a few prayer requests that we would like to share with you:
-For the people of Yamarangula. We love them so much and are so
excited to return!
-Every time we purchase our tickets to return to Honduras, Satan
really tries to get after us, please help us pray this out!
-We need to replace our roof on our new house in Honduras, we have a
need for about $1500 that has not been met yet, and we MUST get this
done fairly quickly after our return. Please pray for provisions to
do so.
-We have been blessed by a few new monthly supporters this year, and
we are so excited to have you on board! We continue to ask for more
people to help so that we can do more for the country and people of
Honduras. We will accept donations of any amount. Would you please
pray to see if God is calling you to help?
-As we gear down for our time to end here, we have expenses that come
up, and we are praying this year as always, that He will provide
everything that we need.