This is great for a Sunday morning. Slow motion video of kids tasting various foods for the very first time. The olive girl manages something I was never able to do; overcome the sensation that olives taste basically like ear-wax. She makes breaking through that barrier look really worthwhile, but I’ve never been able to [...]
OK, somebody asked me what “chipotles” are just today. I was not aware until that moment that there may be people in modernity who don’t know about them. That’s a tragedy, because they’re just so damn good. What they are is smoked jalapeno peppers in a thickish sauce called “adobo”. I don’t know about the [...]
…is living well, or so they say. Long day of turning today, then cobbled together this little rascal. Tomatoes and fresh basil from the greenhouse and a fresh mozzarel from a local boutique cheese maker. Olive oil, salt and pepper. About as easy as anyone could wish. I think they call this a Caprese salad, [...]
Just want to call attention to this fantastic multi-part series in the LA Times on world population growth. I’m inclined to a road warrior type conclusion. The LAT has a paywall after a couple of articles, i get past it by restarting / resetting my browser when i get the message my number is up.
Taking a break from cutting brush and moving chunks of wood, and thought you’d like a peek at the greenhouse progress. I had to whack some serious brush just to get in there and take this photo actually, especially the tomatoes which had totally run wild. That’s good though, since the energy will now go [...]
A nice little Monday morning visit with our old friends at Monsanto. During our last visit we discovered that their Genetically Modified (GM) crops marketed as Roundup Ready® were suffering from newly-evolved “superweeds” that had acquired a resistance to the pesticide Roundup® and the whole scheme was becoming a nightmare for farmers locked into Monsanto’s [...]
I made these last weekend. Totally yummy hot or cold. Make a batch of white bread with regular dried yeast. While the dough is on its first rise, take 1lb ground beef, and fry it gently in a pan along with a dash of garlic, a finely chopped onion and 3 medium size carrots. [You [...]
So, this weekend I caught up with some cooking programmes on BBC iPlayer. One episode was The Hairy Bikers, [don't ask] and this time they were riding around on motorbikes in Norway sampling yeast recipes. One stop was at a bakery famous for it’s sourdough bread and although there wasn’t an actual recipe, because it [...]
The standard GOP boilerplate answer nowadays to the question of evolution is that it’s “just a theory”. Maybe they should consider talking to a few more farmers. A little background first; back in the 1970′s, the Monsanto corporation developed and patented a non-selective, post-emergence plant killer which within a few years came to be marketed [...]
So here it is, fresh out of the oven. Ladies and gentlemen (I use the terms loosely), may I present Cochise’s famous bread…