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whatever I’m feeling. And the result is a fresh batch of salsa everyone can dive into.
All the habaneros we had from the garden pushed us to try a roasted habanero salsa for the first time. It’s sweet, bright, and brutally hot. You can’t stop eating it, even as your eyes water and your nose runs. Friends have already asked for more jars of “that mango one,” so we know we’re on to something. Playing with salsa has also opened the door to other sauces. We’ve started working with dried chiles for enchilada and tamale sauces, and we keep talking about tackling a proper mole someday. That one feels bigger, with all the history and ingredients behind it, but it’s on our list. By the time this newsletter lands in your hands, the garden will still be sleeping, but we’ll be in the kitchen pulling peppers from the freezer and roasting tomatoes under the broiler. For us, there’s a lot behind a bowl of salsa. It’s comfort, family, culture, and even a bit of therapy in one bite.
Our family’s love of salsa has deep roots. Sierra and I both grew up with Mexican moms who made fresh salsa all the time. It wasn’t a special occasion dish. It was just what you made when tomatoes were ripe or someone dropped off a bag of peppers. If you had a cold, you made salsa because of the vitamin C, heat, and the way it clears your head. Even now, if someone in the house is sick, it’s pretty common to hear, “You don’t need medicine. You need salsa.” These days, it’s become one of our favorite ways to bring people together. If friends are coming over, we don’t really plan it. We just start pulling ingredients out of the fridge. I usually handle the roasted salsa. Sierra makes the pico de gallo, the fresh version. Whatever we make, the result is the same. Everyone gathers around the bowl with a bag of chips, and we watch it disappear faster than seems reasonable.
–Kevin and Sierra Bennett
Meet Your New Birthday Card Helper TRYING AI FOR PERSONAL MESSAGE
follow his dreams. What makes me proud: the way he loves people, his reading ability, how fast he is growing up. Make the tone: encouraging, playful, warm, funny.
Many seniors feel unsure about using artificial intelligence (AI), and that is completely understandable. It’s a new technology that many of us don’t really understand. But think of all the major technological changes in the past that were also a little scary to people at first. There was electricity, automobiles, air travel, and even microwave ovens. More recently, we saw the arrival of home computers, the internet, email, and mobile phones. AI is no different. It’s just a new technology that feels intimidating until you learn to use it. Once you start to experiment, you’ll find that it can help with a lot of things. So, we are giving you an assignment to help you take your first step into the
new world of artificial intelligence. Let’s use AI to write a really good birthday card greeting for one of your grandkids.
Step 1: Type “ ChatGPT.com ” into your web browser.
Then hit the Enter key.
Step 2: Type in words to tell AI what you want. (It’s called a prompt.)
Step 3: Choose your favorite greeting of the five and write it in the birthday card. That’s all there is to it. You’ll never again struggle to write something different and interesting in birthday cards. And you can use this same approach to write other things as well, including notes to friends and family, thank-you cards, and holiday messages. Try it and let us know what you think!
Here’s the prompt you type in, but first change the bolded words to whatever fits your situation: Give me 5 different birthday greetings for my grandson Seth . He is age 7 . He likes: Legos, dinosaurs. What I love about him: his smile and laughter. What I hope for him: work hard in school, help his mom,
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