A Happy Easter to y’al! Oh my goodness…so much has happened in Belize (and Worldwide) in the space of only a month with regards to the coronavirus. The whole of Belize has been placed under lock-down in the last few days; we are in strict quarantine for 14 days to limit movement and traffic. It is very quiet all around; quiet in Punta Gorda:

Anyway, life on the farm is the usual since the animals and plants have no knowledge of the coronavirus. I am very grateful for the following things that has helped us through these changing times: the first thing is the definitely the water situation…I am so glad that our well is up and running. With the extra water over dry season, we have been able to provide water for the animals and to keep our vegetable garden growing. Normally during the dry season, we have no water for plant irrigation and we have very few greens to eat. This year we set up a drip irrigation system and we have had wonderful harvests. Yes you have guessed it: I am very grateful for the vegetable garden!!

We have had a great harvest of bitter gourd (serosi). This is actually our favourite vegetable! The Belizeans eat it in a specific way (after thinking about it, I have never seen a Belizean dish with serosi so I have no idea how they prepare this vegetable…they do however talk a lot about eating it!) and apparently it lowers blood sugar naturally.

We eat it “Munchkin Way.” I have been stuffing them lately since we have so many; two each for lunch and two again for dinner! When you have limited ingredients, you have to get creative!

Yesterday, I stuffed them with rice and ham ; rice was cooked in coconut milk first:

I feel that since we put so much energy into growing our own food, I can only honour the food by cooking yummy, yummy stuff. More stuffing…this time tomatoes:

Oh, and Goosie for Easter. This is our own rosemary which is growing very well in a bucket.

Goosie roasted in coals:

I hope you enjoyed our food pictures. Keep Well Everyone!!

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