Happy Cinco de Mayo! If you’re celebrating Mexican-style today, don’t forget the peppers. Jalapeno, cayenne and habanero peppers don’t just spice up a meal; they also offer a number of health benefits. Capsaicin, the substance in hot peppers that causes your body to heat up, helps fight LDL, or bad cholesterol; has been shown to [...]
Say nobody in your family likes pumpkin pie, but you’re a traditionalist. So at Thanksgiving, you’re kind of screwed. You feel like you must serve pumpkin pie because it’s always been done, but you know you’ll be left with most of a pie to be thrown away or fed to the dog. But we [...]
I’m still alive, although you’d never know it based on my conspicuous absence from this blog over the past few weeks. What can I say? We picked our last tomatoes in October and then I took a break from thinking about gardening for awhile. We do have a small fall garden underway, mainly just cabbage [...]
