I 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 is have to be? I [...]
OK, 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 here. Do you have a [...]
This 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 the U.S.A. They are responsible for [...]
On 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 ton of information, one of the things [...]
On 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 spore. Check out Cooking Up A [...]
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 plastic before the beds froze solid [...]
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 – with cornmeal. Neat. I use [...]
A 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 squares, then use the alphabet [...]
Both 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 can have even more mites [...]
My 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 can buy. I have to [...]
Charlie and Eric talk about the holidays, Xmas trees and are they green, donating to charities as a gift, what to give to kids, Family finances, Ken Druse’s Real Dirt radio, Elise’s Simply Recipes iPhone friendly site The links: Ken Druse’s Real Dirt Radio Elise Bauer’s Simply Recipes iPhone site Human Society of Missouri’s Long [...]
I volunteered to bake chocolate chip cookies for the barn’s xmas party. Not brain surgery, I can do this. I pulled out my mixer, which i bought at a tag sale a while back. I invisioned the cream and butter creaming really nicely in the bowl, just like on TV. I added the 2 sticks [...]
We were out of mayonnaise up at the house, and we wanted to make turkey sandwiches, which must have mayonnaise! Check out how Eric makes mayonnaise, and learn how you can too. Its a simple mayonaise recipe and easy to do. If you add anything to this mayonnaise, it becomes and aoli. You could add [...]
Be green this Christmas with more ways to Green Your Holiday from Eric Rochow and Real World Green. Today, learn how to wrap presents in a green way, and see eric in his santa hat. fun. watch.
OK, right now is dumping snow outside. I just helped my friend Bill switch out generators up at the camp ( where the Labs swim ).
