Random Kangaroo, + recipe

Mostly my holiday trip won't be terribly interesting to anyone, since I just drove in big circles around north Louisiana for a week and visited people, but there was one definitively interesting event during the holiday.

We found a kangaroo! On the side of the road, in a very normal neighborhood in Delhi, Louisiana. He is apparently a pet (named Thumper), belonging to someone in my cousin's neighborhood, and he jumped the fence and escaped. He was very friendly - so friendly we never got out of the car. He made like he was going to climb in the window, and then he chased us when we drove away. After we confirmed that he was tame and friendly (so much so that we were handed a toddler and told to take pictures), we went back, but we couldn't find him. No one seemed worried, though, as he apparently knows to come home for supper. He plays football with the neighborhood boys some afternoons, and does not, as I would have expected him to, eat people's gardens. He's apparently a very picky eater.

I thought I was going to upload his picture, but someone didn't dump the pictures off their digital before leaving for an all-night New Years thing. So, recipe instead! My aunt made a cookbook (through the same company that published our family cookbook) and gave me one for Christmas, and I've been playing around with some of the recipes in it, making vegetarian modifications, etc. This one came out delicious.

( White Chili )