If you love tomatoes in any form and can garden, you’ll probably want to grow some yourself. Tomatoes are one of the most rewarding things to grow in a vegetable or container garden, and if you find you really enjoy …
Why would anyone chose to grow tomato plants from seed? These days most gardeners purchase their transplants at the store. Right off the top of my head I can think of four reasons one might want to start their own tomatoes …
Accidents are never planned nor expected. This is a maxim I came up with, back in 2003, after I had a serious accident with a knife. That accident forever changed my life and… my perspective on safety measures taken to …
Do you know how to stretch a chicken? I don’t mean literally, as in the featured photo (cartoon) for this post. By “stretch a chicken” I mean make it of maximum benefit, both nutritionally and in regard to culinary pleasure. …
If I could chose just one single item to carry with me… anywhere, it would be a pocket knife. With a pocket knife I can make things. With a pocket knife I can open things that might otherwise pull open, …
Ever since I was six years old I’ve kept an eye open for a really good knife. I can remember, at age six, ogling the knives on the rack at Lincroft Hardware and later, getting catalogs from a company called …
When people first decide to raise their own food they often start with chickens. There are various styles of raising chickens. Some get whatever chicks in the feed store look cutest, not even knowing what they are going to grow …
The Jerusalem artichoke is a neglected crop which can be exceedingly productive in a home garden. I rarely see it in grocery stores and even more rarely meet people familiar with it. Yet this was once a common crop, utilized …
Do you know how to cook homegrown poultry? By “homegrown” I mean anything which wasn’t raised in a modern, high volume facility. Chickens raised in large commercial facilities are typically ready for butchering at 6-10 weeks, depending on whether they …
I first started to think about stretching a dollar by cooking, when I spent my first Thanksgiving away from home. It never occurred to me that the banks closed, that week on Wednesday and that food service at college was closed …