Equidorian Plant (and a Cheap Supper)

The Green Day Plant

Oh yes. In the jungle of equitorial Equidor, and plant was identified for the first time.

Stop and smell the GREEN DAY. A botanist from Switzerland, Dr. Jason R. Grant, just wrote to NRDC to tell them that he named a new tropical plant species after Green Day. It's called Macrocarpaea dies-viridis (dies-viridis is Latin for Green Day), and the scientific journal Harvard Papers in Botany just published an article about it! In his message, Dr. Grant says, "My students and I discovered this new species in February 2006 in Ecuador, and listened to Green Day music while driving, and in the evenings. Obviously as a botanist I am concerned with the environment, and applaud the efforts of the Natural Resources Defense Council."
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Supper tonight: money tight, I made up some pancake mix, fried a slice of balogny and warmed a bit of Monterey Pepper Jack on top and had a great supper....

Pancake mix:

2 cups all purpose flour
2 heaping tablespoons sour cream
pinch of soda
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 tsp salt
1/4th cup oil (corn or whatever)
1/2 cup milk
water to get desired consistancy
egg if you have one (I did not on this batch)

Mix the above, not over-mix! fry a large (7", say) pancake in a pan slicked with a little oil. Corn oil I like. Lard ok too, bacon fat etc.
remove and keep warm, while you fry gently a slice of Balogny. Turn and put a slab of Monterey Pepper Jack on top to melt slightly. Place meat and cheese on the pancake, and fold in half. "Serve", meaning EAT!!!!!! Yum. Good.

keep rest of batter in the fridge for breakfast....

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Lush wood in the desert mountains a spring-fed stream up in the Guadaloupe mountains creates a mini forest, quite lush and wonderful, Photo taked last Thanksgiving.....