by Judy | Sep 30, 2008 | Recipes
How’s that for a mouthful of salad and my latest craze for fast food lunches? Being the cook book lover and foodie that I am reading recipes is at the top of my list. So I tried an intriguing black bean and sweet potato salad last week from one of the magazines I read. It had an olive oil, balsamic vinegar, garlic, cilantro dressing with chopped tomato in it. How can you lose with some of our favorite flavors? What I realized after making the salad was that...
by Noel | Sep 28, 2008 | Gardening, Recipes
This year’s garden has been far from great. I’ve been on the road so many weekends that weeding maintenance has suffered. I didn’t even get a lot of beds planted. The fallow beds were not mulched, so weeds are rampant. I’m playing catch up, but things are starting to look up. Geoff and Anneliese are doing most of the shows we have scheduled for the rest of this year, so I should be able to get the garden cleaned up and covered with leaves...
by Geoff | Sep 10, 2008 | Gardening
Dolichos lablab in front of the makeshift cinderblock wall that I built off my front porch. Now when I sit on the front porch I see this: The view from the front Once the plants were established I gave them no additional water other than the little bit of runoff that they got when I watered the potted plants on the porch. The vines thrived during the 100 degrees for days on end drought that we experienced in Austin this summer. However, unlike the hyacinth beans...
