new peppers

Just a quick post about the growing of peppers.  Between last night and this morning the mini pepper planter has 2 new peppers growing so its now up to 3 for that planter.  The other pepper planter with red peppers and purple peppers has only one pepper so far.  Also looks like the bunching onions will be ready to harvest soon.  Think they are almost 6 inches tall.

2 new mini peppers are starting to grow

The only pepper so far in this container.  Is it red or purple? Time will tell :)

Crock Pot Pineapple Ginger Chicken

Way too humid today to even think about turning on the oven to make dinner.  So dinner came together by taking what was in the fridge and cupboard and tossing into the slow cooker.  Was pretty good will tweak the recipe in the future but this is how it turned out.

First sliced 1/2 red pepper, 1/2 yellow pepper, 1/2 a large onion.

Trim the fat off 8 boneless, skinless chicken thighs. Cut into chunks and place into crock pot. Season with black pepper.

Once the chicken was in the crock pot I added the peppers and onions. Then I added  a sauce I made up containing pineapple juice from a can of pineapple chunks, brown sugar, vinegar, grated ginger and lite tamari sauce.

Put the lid on the crock and cooked on high for 2 hrs.  Once the 2hrs are up I added green onions and the pineapple chunks.

Stir them in and continue cooking.  Since I like a thicker sauce I let this cook for another 10 minutes and then added a slurry of cornstarch and water.  I let it continue cooking until the sauce is thicken and then serve over some rice.

Next time I make it I would add a little more spice and some more ginger and maybe some greens like baby bok choy perhaps.

Crock Pot Pineapple Ginger Chicken

8 Boneless, skinless chicken thighs, fat trimmed and cut into chunks.

1 can of chunk pineapple in juice

1/2 red pepper cut into slices

1/2 yellow pepper cut into slices

1/2 of a large onion sliced

4 green onions chopped

2T lite tamari sauce

2T vinegar

3T brown sugar

2 inches of fresh ginger root, grated

1)  Trim fat from chicken thighs cut into chunks and put into crock pot

2)  Slice the peppers and onions and add to crock pot

3) make sauce, stir together vinegar, juice from the canned pineapple, brown       sugar, grated ginger, tamari sauce.  Add to crock pot.  Put lid on the on the     crock pot and turn on high for 2 hours.

4) After two hours add pineapple and green onions continue cooking on high       for 15 more minutes.  If you like a thicker sauce, make a slurry of                   cornstarch and water, add to crock pot and continue to cook until sauce           has thicken.  Serve over rice.  

Welcome Summer and my container gardening

It is now officially summer!!!  This is my first year having a balcony so I have planted some containers and I will post pictures as I now have a camera my first digital camera.

I have 5 planters on my balcony.  2 are pepper planters.  One of the planters has red peppers and purple peppers. The other pepper planter is mini peppers called cute peppers.  One pepper has started to grow.

Two other planters have onions.  I four different varieties, bunching onions, red onions, spanish onions and vidallia onions.  And the last planter is basil.  I did want some lettuce but couldn't find any.


It should be interesting to see how this turns out.  Can't wait to start cooking with them, I have a funny feeling there will be lots of pepper recipes.  :)

First Tiny Mini Pepper

The combo planter of red peppers and purple peppers.

These are my onions not much to see so far.

Look for future posts of recipes, kitchen items etc.  Have fun this summer and have fun creating recipes. :)