Every year, I try to grow something different in the vegetable garden.
Easy to make and maintain, terrariums are an excellent way to keep your hands working with plants in the garden off-season.
Become a savvy knife user to save yourself time and hassle during meal prep.
Photo courtesy of iStockphoto/Thinkstock Red lentils will thicken up and add heartiness to this post-Thanksgiving, recovery soup. Pies and stuffing, gravy and sweet potatoes … I needed to calibrate my appetite-ometer after the Thanksgiving feast. If you have turkey broth, you already have a good start, but because I didn’t host this year, I didn’t […]
Last week, when Uzzi and I were checking the news, we read about a pigeon that carried messages for the British Army during World War II, more than 70 years ago.
Photo by Audrey Pavia Cheddar and Stanley, in a moment when they are getting along. Cheddar and Stanley are litter brothers. They were part of a litter of eight kittens my sister (a vet) rescued from euthanasia at the age of 4 weeks. They came into a shelter where she was doing her clinical rotations […]
Mapos are one of several different crosses between mandarin oranges and grapefruits.
It is always my intent to harvest from the garden year-round. I plant plenty of root crops, like beets, turnips, radishes and others, so I can keep harvesting for as long as possible.
Photo by Judith Hausman Brussels sprouts make an excellent side dish at Thanksgiving dinner. Thanksgiving meal generates a lot of magazine, food-site and newspaper articles; I’ve even written my share. Ironically, everyone wants the same old recipes on the holiday, not new ones. People can’t even give up the awful, green-bean mushroom-soup casserole or the […]
Creating homemade baby food does not have to be as complicated as it might sound. It’s all about getting good food from fresh ingredients made to encourage excellent health.
Thursday is Thanksgiving Day. It’s a special day for us goats because we get yummy animal crackers, vanilla wafers and corn chips with our breakfast. Yippee!
Rio, my Spanish Mustang, has decided he enjoys a little game of fetch.
