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Tomatoes Are Here
My tomato plants are producing red fruit at a pretty good clip now. So well in fact that we can’t eat them all. So of course I had to bring them in to work to share and prove I can grow fruit.
I think the weather has been ideal for growing plants, because these tomato plants have [...]
Grilled Burgers
After a rather indulgent meal at a local steak house on Saturday, we decided to get back to basics and grill a few burgers for our Sunday dinner.
I have found over the years, that ground chuck is the perfect burger for grilling over a charcoal fire.
All I do is add some worchestire sauce and pepper [...]
Tomato Plant Update
As I wrote about back in the beginning of May, I invested $50 to buy four tomato plants and potting soil and mulch. I used all potting soil since we were planting the plants in containers and not in a garden.
Well I knew the plants would take a while to mature, they said 70 to [...]
Bread Cookbook
For Father’s day last month, one of my gifts, was a bread cookbook. My wife was hungry and happened to be in a book store and saw the book. It had some very pretty color pictures of bread, the one that caught her eye was one where they were putting in chocolate bars into the bread. [...]
Salmonella Tomatoes, Not In My Garden
With the salmonella scare pulling tomatoes off the shelves, it makes me happy that I decided to grow my own plants last month. Here is an update from my earlier blog. They continue to grow big and thick in their containers. The red mulch, shown to grow tomatoes bigger and faster appears to be working, [...]
State BBQ Championship Cookoff
Last Saturday I ate like a pig, or I mean, I ate pig. Well almost, it was like a buffet that would never end. We ate for almost 2 hours sampling 25 freshly cooked pork barb-b-que.
I was one of five celebrity judges at the State BBQ Championship cook-off on Saturday at the State Fairgrounds. The other judges [...]
Real Charcoal(Wood) Grilling
On this Memorial Day a lot of folks fire up the grill to cook out. Unfortunately, many will just walk out and turn on the gas and hit a button and poof, be ready to grill. How boring, why not just turn on the oven or stove top? I notice how many gas grill accessories [...]
Sopapillas and Extra Credit
When you need to up your grade or keep it up, extra credit is a good way to get that done. In a Spanish II class that my daughter takes, she and a friend decided to get some extra credit by making a Mexican snack, bringing it to class and of course translating the recipe [...]
Twice Baked Potatoes
It’s weird having to add a whole stick of butter to my potatoes, but knowing what I was making, I knew it was worth it. This recipe was from the Angus Barn and it is delicious.
First you take 6 potatoes and bake them thoroughly. I just use a microwave. Then you cut them in half [...]
Can You Eat A Chain Letter?
Everyone probably has been sent an e-mail where you are told to pass it on or else! I always delete those, but when my colleague Donald Jones brought me a bag of batter and told me to spend ten days squeezing the bag then to use it to make a bread, I was intrigued.
It’s called [...]