I was looking through my pictures to see what I could post about this week and I realized I haven’t been taking as many pictures lately, oops~ :) it has been a little crazy at work, which makes it harder for me to feel motivated to do much when I get home. When it slows down, I’ll try my best to get back on track with my picture taking…
So, today… I’m going to show you a clever trick I learned from one of my friends. In the Korean stores around Seattle, they don’t sell jalapenos individually, you have to buy a pound or more that they have prepackaged for you. This is nice for bigger families that use a ton of jalapenos, but for my family of two… it can be a bit much. For a while, I was slicing them all up and using 1 or less and freezing 90% of them, but after a while, you get the ice chunks and freezer burn… and all of a sudden it hit me 
One of my friends were over for a BBQ last year and showed me how to pickle jalapenos, like that kind you can get from a can in the Mexican food aisle of most grocery stores.
I got an old spaghetti sauce jar, filled it with sliced jalapenos
pour in white distilled vinegar (I always have vinegar on hand for everything, from cooking to cleaning :))
cover and refrigerate.
It should only take a week or so for the color to change to a dull green. After it’s done pickling, I like to chop it up and put it over nachos or on sandwiches, one time I tried putting it on Boboli pizza crust bread with mozzarella and cheddar cheese and regular deli ham chopped up (bake per instructions of course) and it was seriously delicious :). It’s also delicious on quesadillas. oh the possibilities
I absolutely love google, it’s so amazing in every aspect 
These are the features I use: google (although, I’ve been using bing lately too), gmail, gchat, picasa (photo), calendar, reader, maps, documents, etc... Over a year ago, I had asked my then fiance (now hubby) for his list of guests and their addresses. For my friends and family, I had sent out a mass email and was copying and pasting all the information into my excel spreadsheet. Mark, on the other hand, found a tool on google that alleviated his load. Google documents! If you have gmail, you should be able to see this feature on the top left hand corner. After you click on it, you should see the document site and there will be a section that says new, upload, share, etc… Click on new and go to forms. From here you can make a bunch of fields and make them required or not. You can even change the theme to make it pretty. After you are done, you can email it to your friends and all the information will stream into your google spreadsheet (which you can change to an excel sheet later on). It only took me a year to figure out how he did this, and it’s mainly thanks to one of my favorite IM buddies… I know I’m sort of a geek, my friendships are through IM lately O.o… Here’s a list of items I’m going to be inputting into my list for when I decide to send out Christmas cards this year? maybe?:
- First Name
- Last Name
- Street Address
- Street Address 2 (opt.)
- City
- State
- Zip
- Phone Number
- Birthday
It’s important to add the name part because it won’t link who sent you what :)*maybe I need a spot for email too?
Here’s what it looks like (I might change the theme later… but this was the mood I was in today:))
