Gardening is a fascinating pastime. As I dabble in mother nature’s realm, I sense that I’m feeling much as a medical doctor must feel as he/she goes about their craft – essentially, that sense is telling me that although I think I know quite a bit about this discipline, there’s still a whole world’s [...]
Archive for August, 2009
What My Garden Taught Me This Year
Posted in Garden, Oregon, tagged eating weeds, Garden, garden duck, garden weeds, gardening, lessons gardens teach on August 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A Fig Overload
Posted in Food, Preserving, tagged Brown Turkey, Desert King, dried figs, fig balsamic, fig chutney, fig vinegar, figs, preserving figs on August 25, 2009 | 4 Comments »
My two fig trees (one a Desert King and the other a Brown Turkey) are snuggled up close (too close) to the south wall of the house and right next to a major pathway – I suffer from the landscaper’s disease of not being able to foresee just how much room a plant or tree [...]
And How Old Is Your Sourdough Starter?
Posted in Opinion, Philosophy, and Assorted BS, tagged Dr Raul Cano, Fossil Fuel Brewing Co., Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Second Life, sourdough, Wired Magazine on August 22, 2009 | 9 Comments »
I think as a species, we tend to take ourselves too seriously! A characteristic we’ve developed, over a rather long time, I’ll admit, is to think that mankind is the most important life form in existence in this world – if not the universe as well. And this is true, even in the [...]
America’s Food Secrets #5 – Monroe, Louisiana
Posted in America's Food Secrets, Food, tagged community fundraiser cookbooks, corn, corn muffins, cornbread, McIllhenny Hall of Fame, Michael Pollan, The American South, The Cotton Country Collection, The Junior League of Monroe, yeasted corn muffins on August 19, 2009 | 9 Comments »
It’s time to dip once more into that pot of America’s Food Secrets and see what we can find. This is the fun project where we look for the streams of food influence brought to America by the early immigrants, and which may have changed and developed into the ways we eat today – [...]
It’s a Date!
Posted in Opinion, Philosophy, and Assorted BS, Oregon, restaurants, tagged blogging, dinner date, Julia Child, Julie and Julia, movie review, Porta restaurant, salumi, Spiegelau on August 16, 2009 | 2 Comments »
My honey took me out on a date yesterday, for a movie and dinner – I think she’s reporting that I took her out – but, what does it matter? We don’t do much of that kind of stuff now, since we entered into our forced austerity phase – actually, all our austerity has [...]
