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Thanks to one of my subscribers, Donna Wilcox,who let me know via Twitter first (even before Meghan McCain, who mentioned it second in all my follows), it’s with a very large hole in my heart that I document this fact: Michale Jackson, who was scheduled to become come back next year, is no more.
The world of Pop will never forget, nor will it ever be the same again.
Sometime soon, when I feel up to it, I’ll talk about what Michael Jackson meant to me and many in my generation, despite his…”faults”.
 A little over a week ago, I told you we’d seen our first Roma tomatoes from the upside down plant.
Maybe three days later, just as June was blooming, we now also have three Early Girls on the right-side up tomato.
Continue reading Garden Diary: More Progress! →
Among the foods of French Canada that I remember and love the best, cretons has to be a favorite of mine. Somewhat similar to the French’s “Rillettes“, it’s a flavorful mix of ground pork, finely diced onions, and various spices, almost always including ground cloves.
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AUTHOR’S NOTE: I’ve been meaning to write this kind of article for years. It seems appropriate at this time, what with the current economic situation. It’s a little long, though, so if you want to skip to particular areas, here they are:
Budgeting Meat | Stocks | Vegetable Stock | Meat Stocks | Good Staples to Have | Organizing Your Freezer.
 While it seems our overall economic situation is improving and the more successful grocery stores are managing to reduce their prices, the fact still remains that many of us are struggling, affected by the deep recession that has cost hundreds of thousands of jobs and launched the biggest rash of home foreclosures in decades.
In the midst of this, we are left with things we still have to do: pay rent or be evicted; pay our heating and cooling bill or either die of heat (to coin a phrase) or freeze to death, depending on the season. Most of all, we still have to eat. The question for many becomes, how to do that nutritionally while staying on a tight budget? How do we make food choices that are economical but still tasty? The secret lies in good food management, and meal planning.
Continue reading From the Kitchen: Cooking on a Budget, Intro →
I love a good salad.
I’ve been making my own salads and coming up with my own dressing since I was twelve. My basic salad was basically lettuce (probably iceberg for the crunchy juiciness), shredded carrot, diced green onion or finely sliced yellow onion, and diced tomato, all of that proportioned to taste. You can find pre-shredded salads these days that will give you a basic garden salad, such as the ones from “Ready Pac” (available at most major American supermarkets… I’m sure other countries have equivalent products available). The biggest advantage of these (aside from the obvious convenience) is that they will often include a little shred of a more expensive vegetable, such as red cabbage. Great for you and your pocketbook, all at the same time!
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 So I was sitting in my office chair, looking out the window at the big girl tomatoes blooming like crazy from the upside down pot and suddenly let out a shriek:
“Tomatoes! There are tomatoes on the Roma!” I yelled excitedly.
Sure enough, two little Roma tomatoes are hanging there, about an inch and a half long, all green and healthy looking and all.
Not only that, we also have some banana peppers finally growing. Things are looking up! 
 Now I don’t know all the details as I’ve got most of them second-hand. In addition, I won’t mention anyone by name, because I haven’t asked permission to talk about it. However, I happen to know all the protagonists, and I am both very proud and a little emotional about it, and I believe this story needs to be told.
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 Like most of America, I waited with baited breath for the expiration of the infamous “First 100 days”, an arbitrary deadline during which we expect to measure the mettle of new presidents.
Although a few things were disturbing near the end of that time period, I (and most Americans, I think) gave him high marks for all that he had managed to accomplish despite some serious (if slightly ineffectual) opposition from the Republican Party.
Now, however, more or less halfway through the second “100 days”, things are suddenly looking grim.
Continue reading Minority Report in the Land of Obama →
 All the big girl tomatoes are blooming. The Roma, on the other hand, isn’t looking so good.  I’m not sure, but I think it might be too cool for it, so far: today’s high 24°C. In fact, a neighbor of ours has beautiful heads of cabbage that are happy as-all-get-out, where normally they’d be all burned out by this time of year.
Continue reading Garden Diary: This, That, and the Other →
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