Why do we like to wander around hardware stores? Find the answer to this and life’s questions on this week’s Gardenfork Radio. Today Eric and Mike talk about windmills, bees, home water damage, and snow. And more stuff. You just have to listen.

A very simple how to on calibrating your TV:
http://www.flat-screen-tv-guide.com/how-to.html

A much more detailed one:
http://www.lcdtvbuyingguide.com/lcdtv/lcd-tv-calibration.html

I’m pretty sure this is the wind farm we drove through.  I don’t know if I said this, but the red lights on top of the wind turbines flashed in unison.  It’s a really amazing thing to see at night:
http://www.earlparkindiana.com/windfarm.html
This is a short video explaining computer virtualization.  It’s a little commercial but it’s the simplest explanation I’ve seen of virtualization:
http://www.vmware.com/products/vi/esx/esx3i.html –>  Click “Watch Demo”

Harold McGee’s NY Times Article: Better Bread with less kneading

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/24/dining/24curious.html

what do you think? let us know below:

Queens is that borough of New York City that many people don’t go to or know about. ( so is Staten Island, but that’s another story )

But Queens,NY is a giant polyglot multicultural crossroads, with a very confusing street naming protocol. All this means is that there is a lot of great food.

John Baronian, a Queens resident and appreciator of food is on this episode of GardenFork Radio to tell us where to go in Queens to eat good food.

John wrote out the show notes for you all, we could not find the exact number of neighborhoods in Queens, but lets just say there are a lot :

Queens is the most diverse immigrant community in New York City and has been for a long, long time. It is a true melting pot.  Remember a melting pot is not homogenous, it is blobs of matter in this case cultures, and in the X number of neighborhoods that make up Queens each has its unique set of immigrant cultures.  Watching the popular Food related tv shows you will typically see a tour of just one or two of those X number of neighborhoods surrounding Jackson Heights, where you will typically see Indian, Korean, and Chinese and a smattering of other cultures. In this episode John Baronian aka johnbaloney is going to talk abut his nook of Queens: Corona, Rego Park, and Forest Hills.

Friend and follow John at  http://www.facebook.com/johnbaloney or http://www.twitter.com/johnbaloney or his Flickr photostream here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/johnbaloney

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First Stop Corona.
Make your way to CityField to watch the Mets win or if you think they might not do so well better yet check out the Queens Museum and see  the Panorama of New York built for the 1964 World’s Fair then for some tasty treats nearby try:
Timmy O’s Frozen Custard

Timmy yo’s  frozen custard a Review that does it justice:  http://newyork.seriouseats.com/2008/10/timmy-os-frozen-custard-queens-corona-nyc.html

49-07 104th Street, Corona NY 11368 (at 49th Avenue; map)
516-242-1843

Lemon Ice King of Corona
Try the Fresh Fruit Ice

Look for some of the awesome Empanada stores and stands in Corona.  My guess is each has its merits.

24/6 Kosher food Vending Machine in The Queens Zoo  *It doesn’t distribute on Shabatt (Thats what keeps it Kosher)

Rego Park / Forest Hills
An Easy Subway trip from Manhattan to see Rego Park and Forest Hills Foodery on Queens Blvd Starting at 63rd Drive. Take the R or V train (Change from the F or E train at Jackson Heights)  to 63rd Drive

Istanbul Restaurant - Dolmas, Sarma, rice, Kebabs, Doner it’s all around awesome Turkish Food located in Rego Park, 95-36 Queens Boulevard, Rego Park, NY 11374

Cheburechnaya Inc. – Russian meat and vegetable pies, borekas *note: They observe Shabbat and are closed about 2hrs before sundown Friday to 1 after sundown Saturday so check the website for when that is. http://www.cheburechnaya.com

Bens’s Best -Brisket, Corned Beef, Chopped liver – intense and delightful http://www.bensbest.com/

Carmel Grocery Ararat jams – sour cherry pits and all, Date Jam, Fig Jam, lamajun frozenpizza, humus and Locum (Turkish Delight) that is better than you will ever get.  A  good set of Yelp Reviews are found Here: http://www.yelp.com/biz/carmel-grocery-forest-hills its located at, 64-27 108th St in Forest Hills, NY 11375 (* Hint an address like 64-27 in Queensspeak alludes to it is near 64th rd, drive or avenue but doesn’t typically indicate which)

My local Deli At 99-63 99th Street (it doesn’t really have a name..) pickels, breads, Boreakas, Lox and cured fish and Russian candy *They observe Shabbat

Andre’s Hungarian Strudel & Pastries Strudelby the yard! They also sell prepared Hungarian savories like Goulash etc.  http://www.andresbakery.com

Knish Nosh knish, giant pig in a blanket Motzah ball soup  found at: http://knishnosh.com/

Metropolitan Avenue – Forest Hills
Aigner Chocolates - “Jellied” Fruit Slices, Marzipan and other handmade Chocolates.  Krause’s Candy Kitchen / Aigner Chocolates, 103-02 Metropolitan Ave, Forest Hills, NY 11375 http://www.aignerchocolates.com/aboutus.asp

johnbaloney’s Favorite Foodies

Eric Rochow
David Lebovitz @davidlebovitz or www.davidlebovitz.com

Our whole show this week is a chat I had with Jean Ann about her new book, Grocery Gardening, and how much she likes Gardenfork. (right…)

here are the links to Jean Ann and her co-authors

Jean Ann Van Krevelen’s blogs: Portland Foodie Good Enough Gardening Podcast Gardener to Farmer Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/JeanAnnVK

Teresa O’Connor’s blog:  Seasonal Wisdom Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/SeasonalWisdom

Amanda Thomsen’s Blog: HortMag Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/kissmyaster

Robin Ripleys’ blog: Bumble Bee Blog http://twitter.com/robinripley

Listen to GardenFork Radio on iTunes here

On GardenFork Radio: the effects of the NYC calorie posting rule on coffee drinkers, how to wash mushrooms, does Eric like Guy Fieri, Facebook – Identity Theft – and your private life, Cable Free TV, Steve Garfield’s new book: Get Seen, Slow Cooker BBQ from Chris Prosperi, and donating to Haiti relief orgs on Guidestar.org

Links:

Starbucks gains on Dunkin Donuts

The Three Facebook Setting Every User Should Check Now : NY Times

Cable Free TV : NY Times

Steve Garfields’ new book: Get Seen

Guidestar.org Research charities working in Haiti and in general

Chris Prosperi of Metro Bis in Simsbury , creator of Slow Cooker BBQ Ribs:

spare ribs:  beef back ribs

dry rub:  salt   pepper   onion powder   smoked paprika

rub on ribs

chopped onion  put ribs and onion in ziplock bag

push air out of bag zip it closed

fill crock half water  turn on high, put ziplock bag in crock  for 10  hours

pull out,   put ribs sheet pan brushed with BBQ sauce, put under broiler until crisp bubbly.

With at title like that how can you not listen? Tracy joins us today to talk about our recent dinner at Roberta’s in Bushwick, The Encyclopedic Cookbook, and DIY Wood Fired Pizza and Bread ovens.

Our New Sponsor: Allison House, http://www.allisonhouse.com/ a data aggregation and integration company that specializes in weather and weather related data. Look for our high tech weather station – that Allison House has provided for Gardenfork – to be on our website soon.

Here are the links

Roberta’s Bushwick, Brooklyn

Cathy Erway and the Heritage Radio Network

Article on Roberta’s in Edible Brooklyn

Culinary Arts Institute Encyclopedic Cookbook

A young person at Roberta’s

Mike Sense’s blog

Wood Fired Pizza oven video

A special mystery guest on this episode of GardenFork Radio. You have to listen to learn who. You will know who it is when you hear their voice.

Here are all the links to all the stuff we talked about. there’s a lot:

The Humane Society of Missouri Long Meadow Rescue Ranch Barn Buddy Program

I Know How To Cook by Ginette Mathiot

Eric’s work blog: HandymanEric.com

Eric appears on Ken Druse’s Real Dirt radio show

To order The Gardenfork Labradors, click here

You can publish your own books with Blurb.com

We are going to try making cheese after Eric met Lisa Fain, author of the blog Homesick Texan ata dinner hosted by Jaden Hair of the blog Steamy Kitchen.

Song of the week is from Josh Joplin, I am not the only cowboy iTunes link here

Our favorite seed company is Fedco Seeds

Tony -our Kim Chi expert- his blog is Yarnmonkey.com

Eric bakes Brownies with Mom episode is here

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 getting us involved in beekeeping.

You can read Julie’s blog, Fiddlesticks, here.

You can learn more about Cheetah.org here.

and check out Tim’s weather station here.

Find them on Twitter:

http://twitter.com/MrsFiddlesticks
http://twitter.com/tim_kirby

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 Meadow Rescue Ranch & Barn Buddy Program

Paula Deen’s Cookbook for the Lunchbox Set

Listen in iTune here

The Labradors of Gardenfork book

The reveal of the new Ford Fiesta at the L.A. Auto Show

Air Travel and the calorie counts of muffins and danish

Interview with Mandy and Joel of Plugged In Parents http://pluggedinparents.com about their lactose free cookbook, Lactose Free and Loving It

Mandy and Joel are also part of Ford’s Fiestamovement .

Charlie talks about graduate school and his new music projects

The Whisky Rebellion bass player talking about Charlie:

“Some people have drinking problems. Charlie has a gigging problem.” -Forbes

http://www.drewbunting.com/Site/Home.html

Charlie is on a new record here http://www.idiotsbooks.com/

The Real World Green Minute

Urban and Suburban people are taking up hunting, in part because of Michael Pollan’s writings. NY Times Article link

Book: The Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan

The Deep Frying of Twinkies

Changing the oil in your car

Sing a song while doing CPR

Jet Plane photo from http://www.morguefile.com

Today we talk with Gardenfork Contributor Monica about cooking with a Himalayan Salt Block, Antique wood furniture, Chicago homes, Lasagna Composting, The Nature’s Mill electric composter, The Forest Park Rib Fest Team Bar-B-Que Competition, Pressure Cookers, cooking from just the Farmers Market, meat butchering classes, and how the Gardenfork – Ford Fiestamovement partnership is going.

Monica's Pup eats peaches