I just saw this video on Gardening Gone Wild and felt the need to share it with you.
In honor of spring, and changing the bit of earth where you live, be it in the country, suburbs or the city; I submit to you this encouraging video! In all fairness I must warn you that he likes the “s” word, but he has some awesome thoughts to share!
“If kids grow kale, they eat kale. If they grow tomatoes, they eat tomatoes!” Ron Finley: A guerilla gardener in South Central LA
Now, go plant some [stuff]!
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I found this prompt, a 100 Word Challenge for Grown Ups, on Julia’s Place and sadly didn’t notice the date. The idea is to only write 100 words on the picture prompt, and it is deviously harder than you think.
Having spent more time on this than I should I nevertheless decided to post it!
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On opening her Christmas package Louisa instantly knew its contents. Breaking the cellophane wrapper, she carefully slid out the chocolate covered nougat, and holding it to her nose, she inhaled along the length of it like some cigar snob. She smiled.
Not wanting to eat the whole thing at once she picked up her sharpest knife to begin meticulously measuring and slicing the bar into bite sized increments. Grabbing the plate, she sat down to watch television. At the first commercial she was shocked to look down and see only one bite left. Shrugging her shoulders she ate it too.
Image is “Ice Cream Ramen” courtesy of…
Today in a comment conversation with my friend Claire about Tomato sandwiches we compared a few notes on, shall we say, unusual food pairings. Suddenly I realized that many of us have grown up eating interesting and unusual foods, and food combinations. Some of which might have made a friend or work partner wrinkle their nose now and again. What is yours?
My father’s favorite was a breakfast stack containing pancakes, bacon, eggs sunny-side-up, and all dripping with maple syrup. Which reminds me of Scout in To Kill a Mockingbird when she protests loudly on seeing her little supper guest pour syrup over his whole meal.
Although it wasn’t her favorite… my grandmother was heard to say that as a younger woman she actually sampled fried grasshoppers once. She claimed that, “They weren’t that bad.”
So here are a couple of mine…
One recent: Toasted bread with apple butter and sharp cheddar cheese.
And, one from high school : French Fries dipped in a chocolate shake.
I have since heard a few others say that they have tried this one.
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So OK, out with it!
What is your closet food pairing/combination?
I think this will be fun, so don’t be shy. Who knows? You may have a few friends out there who do the same thing…
You never know!
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There are many things that come in packages and are Gluten Free (GF) these days, but not all are necessarily delicious right out of the box. Such is the case with Betty Crocker‘s GF Brownie Mix. Overly sweet, and very gooey they are simply not the best brownies out there.
Now I won’t buy these for myself, but I have twice been gifted these same brownies and honestly appreciate the kindness of both friends to go out of their way and do this for me! That said, I desired to see if I could make them a bit more palatable by doctoring them up.
Here’s what I did…
Ingredients:
1 box Betty Crocker GF Brownie Mix
1 extra egg
1 tsp. vanilla
1 tsp. cinnamon
1/4 cup chopped *almonds (mine happened to be smoke house style)
I added the above to the mix in addition to the called for ingredients. Mixed and baked per the instructions on the box, and I believe they came out to be superior to the just as directed version.
They were not gooey and a bit lighter in crumb. I asked Bob what he thought of the changes and he said: “Oh, I don’t know. I think I will have to eat another one to be sure.”
That is a very good sign!
Should you try this at home I would be interested in knowing what you think of the changes I made.
*kitbash: “The practice of modifying a model… [no longer limited to model railroad or] toy action figures, to achieve [a] result other than that intended by the manufacturer.” Paraphrased from the Urban Dictionary and term applied loosely to the process of modifying a box baking mix. 🙂
**I used almonds because that is what was on hand, but I am sure that walnuts or pecans would be equally good!
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