Tweet Now, I have experimented a few times with my rice cooker, especially one night when the gas (propane) ran out in the middle of cooking, and I had to finish in the rice cooker.  But this is a great little video that shows how many choices there are.  They are really one of the [...]

TweetI recently noticed that there’s a lot of little green bugs on the leaves, are they bad for the plant and future produce? What should I do to get rid of them if they’re bad? Admin answer: Check out this great video with ways to get rid of aphids, flies, worms, and more that are [...]

Tweet Information about making paper pots and gardening at Dave’s Garden. How can you make planting pots to start seeds in?  Easy!  Cheap!  Or even free! Newpaper pots are a great tool for your garden: It doesn’t cost you anything extra (you can get those free advertiser papers if you don’t already subscribe to the [...]

Tweet A rain garden is an attractive landscaping feature planted with perennial native plants. It is a bowl-shaped garden, designed to absorb stormwater run-off from impervious surfaces such as roofs and parking lots. www.raingardens.org This is a fantastic little video that explains how to use a rain garden in your yard to add low maintenence [...]

Tweet Theo, 5, and James, 9, cook a recipe from the Alinea cookbook.  The recipe is pheasants with shallots, cider gel, birch, and oak leaves.  The Alinea cookbook is a molecular gastronomy book.  Molecular Gastronomy combines high tech science and cooking, made famous by chefs like Grant Achatz.   It seems a bit ambitious, but [...]

TweetI’m helping develop a new website for kids, called Online-Kidz.com .  I’m really excited about this project.  We have a few videos and advice columns up.  It will soon include more of these, plus games, recipes for kids, music, and more.  Plus, we want to have drawings, photos, videos, poems, stories, etc. submitted by children.  [...]

Tweet 5th of February 2008 is pancake day – make sure to celebrate it by cooking up a batch of pancakes, and trying some new toppings. Visit http://www.welovepancakes.com for recipe ideas and a brief history on how pancakes came to be so popular These ARE pancakes – pancakes are different things in different countries. These [...]

Tweet 91 year old cook and great grandmother, Clara, recounts her childhood during the Great Depression as she prepares meals from the era. Learn how to make simple yet delicious dishes while listening to stories from the Depression.  These recipes and tips are just as relevant today, as we deal with layoffs, slow economy, and [...]

Tweet Doubt Official Movie Trailer 2008 – I can’t wait to see this one. I really like Meryl Streep, and she seems great in this role.  It appears to be about a school/church at the turn of the century, and the headmistress who is unable to accept change, volleying against a priest who is all [...]

Tweet 91 year old cook and great grandmother, Clara, recounts her childhood during the Great Depression as she prepares meals from the era. Learn how to make simple yet delicious dishes while listening to stories from the Depression. In this episode Clara makes Egg Drop Soup and remembers a story about her brother. From the [...]