We’re talking about pineapples! We are going to make a citrus pineapple salsa, look into facts about pineapples, and view some pictures of a pineapple that we grew in our own home.
Pineapple Facts:
Hawaii at one time produced 1/3 of all pineapples in the world.
Pineapples are a cluster of hundreds of fruitlets.
Pineapples take 18 to 20 months for harvest.
They are native to South America.
One pineapple plant can produce one pineapple at a time.
Pineapples ripen faster upside down.
Pineapples regenerate!-it is fun we have had a few pineapples now grown in our house.
200 hundred flowers are produced by a single pineapple they vary from purple to red to lavender.
A pineapple in the wild can last up to 50 years old.
When it drizzles on a sunny day in Hawaii, they call it pineapple juice.
Let’s make salsa!
We first started by sectioning and chopping 8 oranges.
Then, we chopped up 4 cups fresh pineapple. (Looking back we would have chopped ours a little smaller.)
We added 1 cup diced purple onion,
4 Jalapeños with seeds in
2 sweet peppers diced,
And 1 cup white raisins.
Starting to look like a fiesta!
We then added 1/4 cup lime juice, 2 tsp pepper, 1 Tablespoon garlic, and 1 tsp of salt.
Bring to a boil and cook for 20 mins. Makes about 2 quarts.
Citrus Pineapple Salsa
8 oranges, sectioned and chopped
4 cups pineapple, chopped
1 cup purple onion, minced
4 Jalapeños, minced (seeds in)
2 sweet bell peppers, diced
1 cup white raisins
1/4 cup lime juice
2 tsp pepper
1 Tablespoon garlic minced
1 tsp salt
Bring to a boil and cook for 20 minutes and cool. Makes about 2 quarts.
We eat ours with tortilla chips. It can also we poured over cream cheese brick for a dip and/or served with cinnamon sugar chips.
Here are a few pictures of a pineapple that we grew in our home, and we actually have two growing right now as I write this. Planting them is quite simple.
Take the crown of the pineapple and pull back some of the bottom leaves to expose roots. Then plant it in a pot of dirt. Be careful not to bump it as it is establishing root, it will be pretty wobbly during this time. Keep it watered regularly. The only hard part is waiting for it to produce a pineapple it took us a few years and then probably about a year for it to ripen. But none the less, it is cool! Oh, and tastes wonderful!
I guess it was telling us something.
This past week we have counted 7 eagles in our yard. Photo quality is a bit off, but this was taken through binoculars, so that would be why. Never the less, there really is no question why our nation picked this as the nation’s bird. Looking at it closer, it gives a state of power and majesty.
But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk and not faint. Isaiah 40:31