October 27, 2018

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Beto and Mike disappeared from the list of campaigns on PostcardsToVoters.

Stacey in Georgia re-appeared, with a school board candidate.  (Odd to get a candidate that far down-ballot, I thought.  I do not know how PostcardsToVoters chooses which candidates to write for.......)

Ok, now we're back to Stacey and Sarah.

Looking out the window on a rainy fall day.  The burning bush was really this red.  !!!

The first batch of cardstock postcards I made got their "thank you star" printed on them individually, because that's how I printed the post-office postcards, and I didn't rethink it.

My perspicacious better half suggested I print before cutting.

Um.  Yeah.  Er.  Yep, I can DO THAT!  (Thank you, dear.  :-)  )

Because every vote DOES matter!

We went to the farmers' market on the 27th, as we almost always do.  That was the last day to buy a wide selection of peppers (frost had done in the plants).  Time for this year's last batch of lecsó from local peppers.  

 Lecsó (pronounced leh-cho) is Hungarian pepper stew.  It is mostly peppers, with some onion, and some tomatoes, and, most importantly after the peppers, smoked paprika.  This ingredient is key -- some stuff that is sold as smoked paprika is just bitter red powder.  You need the good stuff, which has a lovely smoky taste.  (It doesn't have to be Hungarian.  The first we had was Spanish, with religious imagery on the can.)

This is an easy-peasy dish.  Lots of chopping, a bit of onion-softening, some simmering, some taste tests to see if it needs more salt or more smoked paprika, and that's it.  I like to put chunks of good break in the bottom of my dish, and then add the lecsó.  Mmmmmmmmmm...........................

This is red, green, yellow, and orange bell peppers, some long skinny (sweet) peppers in yellow and red, some little "sweeties" peppers, and a poblano.  The poblano was somewhat hot.  I like there to be just a little kick of hotness in this dish.

It freezes well.  We usually make enough at once to eat supper that day, supper again in a few days, with one supper's worth going into the freezer for the dead of winter, when all of this color is extra welcome.


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