Putting Your Garden To Bed for Winter

It’s time to put your garden to bed for winter. Summer is no more bohoohoo. I spent time today doing just that and thought it would be nice to pass on a little bit of info on the most important steps to winterizing your garden. I have taken some of this information from Rodales Organic…

Burma Old World Traditions Beautiful People

Michael Biach’s photo essay documents the scenes and people of Burma, including the women of Chin — an isolated state in the mountains — who “used to follow the thousand-year-old tradition of tattooing their faces.” via Burma — Discover

Szechwan Stir fry

This is so good I couldn’t stop eating the carrots soaked in all that juice. I use all organic produce and other ingredients unless they are not available. Szechwan Stir fry 1/4 cup sunflower or peanut oil 1-2  Heads broccoli (cut off all of the flower heads and save the stalk for soup stock) 2…

Brandied Cherries

This is a post that I did back in early summer but I wanted to do it again with some updates. ORIGINAL POST   (with updates)                                                            …

The Big Salt Debate..Which ones are really ok!

The Big Salt Debate From my book: Healthy Food that Tastes Great! ………. And everything you Really need to know about the Healthy way to feed your family It’s just a working title, I will probably change it before I have it published but for now it works. It says what I want to get across to readers….

Seasonal Produce Guide

I was morning the loss of my garden and the robust flavors of its harvest as Summer comes to an end when I remembered the smells of homemade bread and the warm spices associated with pumpkin pie and homemade soups and stews of the coming Fall and Winter months. I thought you might enjoy having…

Food and Travel

Jeff and I just took a four day trip to Astoria Oregon. It is a very historical place with lots of architecture that they are working hard to preserve. Astoria is a beautiful place, it sits on the Columbia River just around the corner from the Pacific ocean. On this trip we decided to do…

Cruise up the New England Coast/Lobster and Seafood Chowder

I told you I would be doing some more travel and food posts and true to my word here is another one.This is my second travel post there probably will not be another for a while because I am starting school in a week so I won’t be traveling for a while. I am going…

New Brunswick and Nova Scotia part of the Cruise

To continue with our trip up the east coast: On day four of our cruise we landed in New Brunswick and got off in St. John. NB is a Canadian Provence still part of the British Commonwealth.  St. John is an unassuming little place with one real tourist attraction. Its actually a natural phenomenon that takes place…