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Welcome once again for another week's round-up of eco-foodie news, tips, links & recipes. Each week I glean tasty bits from the various blogs & sites I follow outside of the Kos-verse and bring them together here for your perusal. If you have a good tasty bit to share let us know about it in the comments!
Welcome once again for another week's round-up of eco-foodie news, tips, links & recipes. Each week I glean tasty bits from the various blogs & sites I follow outside of the Kos-verse and bring them together here for your perusal. If you have a good tasty bit to share let us know about it in the comments!
I've found a REALLY old kitchen gadget to share this week! Can you figure out what this relic was used for?
Image courtesy the National Museum of Wales under a Creative Commons License
Welcome once again for another week's round-up of eco-foodie news, tips, links & recipes. Each week I glean tasty bits from the various blogs & sites I follow outside of the Kos-verse and bring them together here for your perusal. If you have a good tasty bit to share let us know about it in the comments!
Welcome once again for another week's round-up of eco-foodie news, tips, links & recipes. Each week I glean tasty bits from the various blogs & sites I follow outside of the Kos-verse and bring them together here for your perusal. If you have a good tasty bit to share let us know about it in the comments!
Welcome once again for another week's round-up of eco-foodie news, tips, links & recipes. Each week I glean tasty bits from the various blogs & sites I follow outside of the Kos-verse and bring them together here for your perusal. If you have a good tasty bit to share let us know about it in the comments!
Welcome once again for another week's round-up of eco-foodie news, tips, links & recipes. Each week I glean tasty bits from the various blogs & sites I follow outside of the Kos-verse and bring them together here for your perusal. If you have a good tasty bit to share let us know about it in the comments!
Welcome once again for another week's round-up of eco-foodie news, tips, links & recipes. Each week I glean tasty bits from the various blogs & sites I follow outside of the Kos-verse and bring them together here for your perusal. If you have a good tasty bit to share let us know about it in the comments!
This week's mystery gadget with both a top and bottom view:
Welcome once again for another week's round-up of eco-foodie news, tips, links & recipes. Each week I glean tasty bits from the various blogs & sites I follow outside of the Kos-verse and bring them together here for your perusal. If you have a good tasty bit to share let us know about it in the comments!
Instead of a mystery gadget this week I want to address hurricane/disaster issues here:
For all the East Coast folks who are keeping an eye on Hurricane Irene here's some links/reminders on being prepared:
And if you are in an area that has been declared by the President a disaster area you may be eligible for emergency food benefits
USDA provides administrative funding to individual states, which operate their own D-SNAP programs. USDA funds 100 percent of the costs of D-SNAP benefits for eligible households. While program requirements vary somewhat from state to state, those eligible for D-SNAP typically must have experienced one of the following:
Food damaged by disaster event or spoiled due to power outage
Disaster-related expenses not expected to be reimbursed during the benefit period (e.g., home or business repairs, temporary shelter expenses, evacuation expenses, home/business protection, disaster-related personal injury including funeral expenses)
Lost or inaccessible income, including reduction or termination of income, or a delay in receipt of income for half the benefit period
You can access a listing of state D-SNAP hotlines to obtain information on application sites in your area at:
So if you lose a refrigerator/freezer full of food because the power is out for an extended period of time you may qualify for funds to help you replace your lost food!
Welcome once again for another week's round-up of eco-foodie news, tips, links & recipes. Each week I glean tasty bits from the various blogs & sites I follow outside of the Kos-verse and bring them together here for your perusal. If you have a good tasty bit to share let us know about it in the comments!
This week's mystery gadget is an older version of something you might find in a modern kitchen especially if there is baking going on;
It's taking over your garden, the prices are dropping at the local store or perhaps you have even discovered a mysterious nighttime "zucchini drop" on your doorstep. Well, zucchini makes a great addition to all kinds of dishes and here's a few examples where I've used a stray zuke or two and other bits of leftovers to make tasty summertime meals.
Welcome once again for another week's round-up of eco-foodie news, tips, links & recipes. Each week I glean tasty bits from the various blogs & sites I follow outside of the Kos-verse and bring them together here for your perusal. If you have a good tasty bit to share let us know about it in the comments!
And this week's mystery gadget:
What is this? (and hint for those of you that read this regularly, we actually discussed this item in a previous Tasty Bits!)
Plump and dimpled, and blushing red against the garden montage, tomatoes are taking center stage.
The retiree grows them by the pot full.
Count 50 tomato plants of different varieties sitting pretty in above-ground planters and winding up wire trellises and stakes around his garden's edge. Through perimeter container gardening, Braiotta knows how to get maximum taste in a minimum space, which still allows for a fish-filled water garden and meandering paths.
Whether it's tomato fixation, or dedication, Braiotta is a gardener who likes to get fresh.
Tomatoes show him the way.
"When I was growing up (and) in the garden, you take a ripe tomato and wash her up with the hose and put some salt on it and eat it.
Welcome once again for another week's round-up of eco-foodie news, tips, links & recipes. Each week I glean tasty bits from the various blogs & sites I follow outside of the Kos-verse and bring them together here for your perusal. If you have a good tasty bit to share let us know about it in the comments!
AS a way to save the world, digging a ditch next to a hillock of sheep dung would seem to be a modest start. Granted, the ditch was not just a ditch. It was meant to be a "swale," an earthwork for slowing the flow of water down a slope on a hobby farm in western Wisconsin.
Welcome once again for another week's round-up of eco-foodie news, tips, links & recipes. Each week I glean tasty bits from the various blogs & sites I follow outside of the Kos-verse and bring them together here for your perusal. If you have a good tasty bit to share let us know about it in the comments!
And here is this week's culinary curiosity!
What is this?
