Thai Red Curry with roasted Kabocha Squash, one of our favorite recipes, is a little spicy, creamy, rich and super comforting on cold nights. I like eating seasonally and every fall we look forward to Thai red curry with kabocha squash and every season change serves up something special. Spring artichokes pave the way for Summer tomatoes, field peas and cornbread to punctuate hot summer days. Fall greens lead the way toward winter squashes, roasted to perfection to create wonderfully…
Texas Migas
Texas Migas, the breakfast choice for Texans is a savory blend of eggs, sautéed onions, green peppers, spices, cheese, and fried tortillas. Traditionally, migas was a central and south Texas breakfast institution. I was born in Dallas, which is located in north-central Texas and I’d never heard of migas until I started spending time in Austin and San Antonio and I can assure you, every mother’s kitchen creates their own personalized migas, tasty, unique and reflective of that person’s cultural…
Joy of Homemade Mustard
The joy of mustard, homemade with cracked brown and yellow seed is blended with fine wine, savory garlic, honey and spices until sublime! Around here the foods we enjoy the most are homemade in our kitchen such as breads, salad dressing, peanut butter, meatless quinoa breakfast sausage and most anything we eat with regularity that contains preservatives or ingredients with words with far too many consonants. I even tried to make bacon, over and over and nada. The medium part…
K.I.S.S. Lasagna
K.I.S.S. Lasagna, keep-it-simple-stupid lasagna, offers a sensuous, savory sauce, crisp edges, creamy cheese texture and time-saving no-boil whole wheat noodles. Mmm. K.I.S.S. Lasagna, keep-it-simple-stupid lasagna, offers a savory sauce, crisp edges, creamy cheese texture and time-saving no-boil noodles. This recipe evolved over the many years my wife spent trying to perfect her spaghetti sauce. Growing up with a step-dad from New York who had very serious ideas about what a good tomato sauce was supposed to be, she formed some…
Banana Bread with Walnuts and Mini Chocolate Chips
Our banana bread with walnuts and mini-chocolate-chips recipe is moist, sweet with raw-cane sugar, butter and is an easy, quick-rise bread! Our banana bread with walnuts and mini-chocolate-chips recipe is moist, sweet with raw-cane sugar, butter, and is an easy, tasty quick-rise bread and I love it. Growing up I became accustomed to the smell of baking bread when I entered my grandmother’s house after school. There’s something about the smell of fresh baked bread. It sparks memories and fills…
One Pot Cooking for Men
One Pot Cooking for Men, not your mom’s cooking blog. More like a deranged, heat-loving, fire-farting, crazy-uncle-you-never-knew-you-had-in-the-first-place kind of blog. About One Man One Pot Cooking for Men, not your mom’s cooking blog. More like a deranged, heat-loving, fire-farting, crazy-uncle-you-never-knew-you-had-in-the-first-place kind of blog. Now, you may find this hard to believe but men love to eat. Yep, you heard it here first and, since most men’s wives get hip to their tricks far faster than any of us were led…
Adding Sulfur to Your Soil
Adding sulfur to soil, lawns and garden to lower pH for healthy plant growth. Organic gardening practices reflect proven results, feed the soil, not the plant. Adding sulfur to your soil can be an effective method to lower pH levels and create a more suitable growing environment for certain plants. If you’re interested in learning how to add sulfur to your soil, PBS-Tv’s GardenRx has got you covered. Watch the above video and see how GardenRx host Loren Nancarrow uses…
Keep Compost from Smelling
Compost for the garden is wonderful, making your own compost is easy but a compost pile can sometimes smell, well, bad. We’ll show you how to fix that. You have options when your compost stinks. An appropriately adjusted manure heap shouldn’t smell terrible. Manure ought to possess a scent like soil and in the event that it doesn’t, there is something off-base and your fertilizer heap isn’t as expected warming up and separating the natural material. You have options when…
Ridding Your Home of Cockroaches
Let’s say it together, “I hate cockroaches!” So do we and PBS-TV’s GardenRx will shows you how to get rid of cockroaches quick and easy! For decades, borax has been used in a variety of products, including cleaners for the home and laundry. It’s possible that you already own a box. It’s a flexible, regular mineral and, you’ll be glad to hear, a powerful device in your bug control arsenal! Refresher: What exactly is borax? PBS-TV’s Loren Nancarrow shows you…
Rid Your Plants of Scale
Scale appears as shell-like bumps on the stems and undersides of leaves. Get rid of them with our plant-friendly homemade scale removal recipe Scale looks like shell-like bums on the stems and undersides of leaves. Heavy infestations can result in poor plant growth. Some species of scales produce a sticky liquid called honeydew that is deposited on the foliage. Under damp conditions this honeydew can become infested with fungus know as sooty mold. Some species of ants collect the honeydew…