garden. It makes a great tea. Lemon verbena is tender but can be wintered indoors if you don’t mind having a leafless shrub for awhile. I like to grow lemon thyme and lemon basil, too. I have a recipe for lovely lemon...

Tayyab in London, even though there’s plenty of Indian/Pakistanian places better than NYC throughout London, and was glad I did. Same theory here... World Tong is worth it. However, I’d still go to Flushing and hit...

, the tree with the green/yellow ones are just not as good. Just tore out the zuk’s, tied of them. Dumped in many wheelbarrels of years old compost on the bed and tilled in. Getting a spud bed ready for next spring.

and cups, which is cool (though they don’t seem to have a composting bin to separate them from the trash...)

I had to take the People’s Donuts challenge at Philz yesterday. Sorry, but these were completely godawful. Between me, my husband, and our little sugar-holic, we didn’t even eat half of one donut. The other half went...

everything will likely be dead when it thaws. Glad to have a new garden to try indoor.

- and keep it in business! I would go through massive withdrawl if they closed. Plus, it is nice to see a place that has a conscience (compostable containers, organic) and is happy to be what they are (good fro yo) and not try...

that are considered heritage breeds because they can get fat and therefore taste great. Be careful, though, because if you put those pigs indoors and deprive them of a natural environment they quickly become “the other...

extensive vegetable garden and after planting the seedlings indoors in February, replanting, tending etc. It really makes me appreciate the effort it takes so I don’t want to waste any of my precious crop.

) air about her. Yes, it would be delightful if we lived in a world where little children spent their days cultivating garden patches in rich composted soil. But we don’t. It’s cool to be idealistic; it’s much...

pecan drink (that I can’t remember the Spanish name of) and the list goes on.......... btw – I’d pay $50+ for an indoor, holiday-type gathering of the hounds. Sometime in December, perhaps. Getting together once a...

a couple of weeks with our grandmother who lived in a farming area about 100 miles NW of Houston. Grandma didn’t drive and lived in an old farm house on a couple of acres on the edge of a town of 900. She didn’t have...