Swiss Chard Not Swiss Banks There is an awful lot of speculation about the economy and where the financial shape of the world (and our future) is going and proffered advice on how we can protect ourselves from hard times. Jim Rogers, Well Known Investment Guru Jim Rogers, an expert investor, has good advice for […]
Food
Rossella’s Salad
Here is the link to Rossella’s Salad with the figs and fennel. She is undoubtedly a better cook than me, but I think I would lightly braise the fennel. Rocket is not widely available here, but baby spinach is, and I would use that. Rossella’s Simple but Wonderful Salad. *Note to self: arugula is probably […]
Growing Organic
Just to underline the fact that there is more than one reason to “grow your own” and that organic methods are the best way to do that. clipped from www.msnbc.msn.com It’s happening to crops in the United States, too. In 2004, Donald Davis, PhD, a former researcher with the Biochemical Institute at the University of […]
Rock Dust
I came across an interesting video that combines some thoughts I’ve attached to over the years. It inspires me to get some local rock dust from the gravel pits around here- we are a glaciated region. Well, I’m not considering becoming vegetarian any time soon, but it just makes sense to build the depleted soils […]
Not the Candy Apples I Remember!
But quite beautiful in their own way. From Matt Bites clipped from mattbites.com I walked back into the kitchen to find the most beautiful candied apples before me. Black glossy cinnamon-scented candied glass enveloped small apples, twigs became their handles, and a few shockingly red candied apples only made their black counterparts more ominous. It […]
Zucchini Days
Muum‘s got a bunch of zucchini posts going- with recipes and a reminder that Saturday is National Leave a Zucchini on your Neighbor’s Porch day.
