Add Walnuts after the flour in the banana bread recipe

Share this post on your Facebook pageI was working on a one-bowl banana bread recipe today, trying to simplify an already simple recipe. ( here is the final recipe )
Surfing the web, I found there are a lot of complicated recipes for banana bread: using cake mixes, Bisquic, all sorts of odd stuff. Why does [...]

Uncle Kev’s Sausage Rolls from Crash Test Kitchen

Share this post on your Facebook pageOK, I know I ramble a lot about the video blog Crash Test Kitchen, but I like Lenny and Waz, and what they do.
Their show and recipe for Uncle Kev’s Sausage Rolls looks and is good. Trust me. Watch the episode below, and get the recipe on their site [...]

Cheetahs run faster than Labradors

Share this post on your Facebook pageThis week on Gardenfork Radio we talk with our good friends Julie and Tim from the UK. Julie tells us about her trip to Africa to work with Cheetah.org, and Tim tells us about his weather station. And we talk about the differences between beekeeping in the U.K. and [...]

Winter Vegetable Gardening with cold frames and plastic mulch

Share this post on your Facebook pageOn Christmas Day we went out to the garden to take care of what we should have done in the fall. And we made a video about it. How unusual.
I’m a big fan of Eliot Coleman, and his book, The Four Season Harvest. Its full of a [...]

How to inoculate logs with mushroom spore – thanks to Cooking Up A Story

Share this post on your Facebook pageOn  my to do list is to learn more about propogating mushrooms. I want to learn how to grow mushrooms, and here is a great video by Ashley Terry of the blog Cooking Up A Story. Ashley went to Oregon to learn about inoculating birch logs with oyster mushroom [...]

Tatsoi, Greens to grow in the Winter

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We just shot a Gardenfork episode about gardening in winter. We shot it on Christmas Day, and I had neglected to pull out my portable cold frame  – watch our how to make a cold frame video here – and I did not cover my raised beds with black [...]

Eric’s Waffle Recipe post Christmas, + cornmeal

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Its the day after Christmas and I decide that I want to make Waffles. No one in my house, besides me and the Labradors, likes waffles, but I do, so I make them. This time I modified my waffle recipe – watch the how to make waffles video here [...]

Alphabet Sugar Cookies for my birthday

Share this post on your Facebook pageA good friend of mine stopped by the house and laid out this birthday message for me. What Fun! Making words with cookies.

These are Alphabet Cookies cutters and two cookie batters, one a plain sugar cookie the other a fudge sugar cookie. You roll out the dough, cut the [...]

The Screened Bottom Board, leave open or closed in winter?

Share this post on your Facebook pageBoth our hives have a plastic screened bottom board. I think screened bottom boards are a must for controlling varroa mites.

Varroa mites are a big problem for bees, and with a screened bottom board, mites that fall off bees fall thru the screen and out of the hive. You [...]

What is a 3D printer? Bre Pettis explains MakerBot

Share this post on your Facebook pageMy friend Bre Pettis is one of those guys that can do most anything, and has the energy to accomplish it. Bre’s blog, I Make Things, is full of videos of cools stuff he has made, like a hovercraft!
Now Bre is making the MakerBot, a 3D printer and you [...]