Small Things

I'm working on acquainting myself with the fruits that are available here but not in North America. One is the guayaba (guava.) One good thing you can do with it is make jugo de guayaba (guava juice.)

First you hold the fruit in your hand.

Next you slice it. Notice that the inside is pink and the outside is greenish– sort of like a tiny watermelon.

Then you put the guava chunks in a blender with sugar and water. Other fruits are good too. Next time I'd like to try putting a maracuyá (passion fruit) in there as well. After you blend it, it's good to pour it through a strainer into a pitcher. This will remove the vast quantity of buck-shot-like seeds.

This house looked good.

I've been paying a lot of attention to gutters recently, and this one is home to by far the best flora of any I've seen in all of Colombia.