I loved reading Barbara Kingsolver’s book “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle”. The book is the story of how she and her family spent a year growing most of their own food, and is written in chronological order. The chapter for August is titled “Life In a Red State”. Here in southern Indiana, we usually hit the Red [...]
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Four For The 4th
Posted in Life on Jul 4th, 2010
Just in time for our burgers today, we have the first ripe slicing tomatoes of the season! Two Moretons are in front and two Early Girls in back.
We’re having some friends over later to celebrate Independence Day. Our menu will feature homegrown and local foods, with green beans, broccoli salad and cucumber pickles from the [...]
Say Cheese
Posted in Recipes on Mar 26th, 2010
Last year my wife and I both read Barbara Kingsolver’s book Animal, Vegetable, Miracle and loved it. We were intrigued by the account of her family’s quest to eat only homegrown or locally grown food for a whole year. And the descriptions of their cheese making experiences inspired us to try to make cheese ourselves.
With [...]
Do It Your Way
Posted in Misc Rants on Mar 12th, 2010
The recent record-breaking cold temperatures in Florida are now sending shock waves across the US – in the form of higher produce prices, and with shortages of vegetables like tomatoes, peppers, strawberries and other crops. I was reminded of this watching HLN this morning while on the dreadmill at the gym. It’s on the news [...]
Homemade: Cherry Nut Granola
Posted in Recipes on Feb 28th, 2010
My wife loves cherries in all forms, so I set out to come up with a granola that used dried cherries. This recipe is my wife’s current favorite of all my granola creations so far.
It features almonds, walnuts, dried cherries plus sunflower and pumpkin seeds. It also has unsweetened coconut flakes (or chips), which I [...]
New For 2010
Posted in Gardening on Feb 23rd, 2010
When it comes to most fashionable trends, I confess to being way behind much of the time. I don’t own an Ipod or an Iphone. My wife and I even went to prepaid cell phones because we don’t use them enough to justify paying monthly fees. And no need to worry about me texting and [...]
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