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Pulled BBQ Beef

Nothing like great bbq.

8 Eggs, 2 Desserts

Here are two desserts, one which uses egg yolks and one which uses egg whites, so if you ever find yourself with one or the other left over, here are two things you can make.

Kids Belong in the Kitchen

Like many folks out there, I’ve been watching the new reality show on ABC, “Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution”. And no matter how I feel about how this has been constructed as a program (because it is 6 episodes long and they have to set up the dramatic conflicts and show Jamie suffering and not [...]

One Year Later – A Report

Literally one year ago, I posted this report on the garden: End of March Report
Now, if you’d like to read that whole thing, go right ahead, but here are the three important bullet points:
By the end of March, 2009:
We’d had a very dry spring so far.
The Rhubarb was already up.
The soil temperatures all over the [...]

Early Spring Gardening

One of the things I find really attractive about gardening is that there is always something happening – even at a place like Chez Siberia (where parts of the property are Zone 2 in terms of what will survive). This week was no exception. You’d think that nothing is happening in the garden here but [...]

Bringing Spring

Sometimes, Aunt Toby is wont (yes, wont) to taking things into her knobby but capable hands and not taking ‘no’ for an answer. This year’s winter has been, for practically the entire Continental United States, one long sitting through of “Ground Hog Day”.
Awful. Miserable. Interminable.

You don’t have to be Jewish to love Passover

Here’s a creative way to find food products that won’t have high fructose corn syrup – or even corn syrup at all.

The Little Red Hen Moves

Far be it from me to make the claim that Aunt Toby and the DH are experts at raising chickens or hatching chickens with a broody hen. Chickens, as I have noted before, are the ‘gateway drug’ of livestock raising: as long as you can keep them save, fed and watered, you are good [...]

Snowed In? No Power? Cook With Your Grill!

If you lose all your power, you can still cook for your family using a gas or charcoal grill. Here are two ideas to show you just how versatile a grill can be.

Well, let’s not brood about it

We have a hen that has gone broody so we’re allowing her to do what is coming naturally – sit on and hatch out eggs.

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