Cactus Jim and the Poole Horizon...

Gawd-awful punny title. All Jim could hear was, "Mudslide Slim and the Blue Horizon" with apologies to JT. Not a bad album, for JT. It was released the year and month of Jim's birth and he had it on cassette along with "Sweet Baby James" (a "nice price" double album) and it sat in his cars for a million years.

Homemade Guacamole

Tonight, Peta made some guacamole and fried up some corn tortillas for ersatz chips. She used avocados, tomatoes from the garden, garlic from the garden, salt, pepper, cayenne pepper and cumin. Tasty tasty! We couldn't wait to eat the main dish, so we sat down to munch and watched an episode of "Master Chef" on the interwebs and had fun making fun of the "fucking amateurs", as the Dude would say.

Grilled Mexican Shrimp with Prickly Pear Cactus

Last week, Jim had begged Peta to be able to buy two prickly pear fruit because "they're only 25 cents!" However, he had no idea what to do with them. So he found this recipe for a Prickly Pear dressing over Shrimp and decided to go with it.

We didn't have xylitol or rice syrup, so we used honey. Unfortunately, the hearts of palm that we had gotten specifically for this dish the day before at our asian market in San Rafael were rotten/fermented/disgusting; we went without.

It was a quick healthy feed to which Peta gave her approval, "I'd eat this again". Good enough!

Jim and Peta