In rummaging through the old hard drive, an idea that was lost was found again: Eat it or Beat it! The section that quickly delivers the scoop on odd little foods that either don’t suck, or do. This time around, Buddy Fruits. Never seen’em before and they’re packed like baby food. Eat it or Beat it?
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Cannibalistic baddies are sure to appear around the corner from you after all hell has broken loose during your wartime post-apocalyptic journey. You’d be wise to learn to hunt, eat mint and keep some basil and rosemary plants handy since those things grow like crazy.
Let’s face it, no one reads this site so it’s not exactly going to confuse the masses if I go off the reservation a little bit, and for me, considerations for surviving a wartime, post-apocalyptic era are kind of a fun mental exercise. The truth is, lots of us haven’t a clue how to do anything for ourselves. Can you answer how long it takes to grow a head of lettuce? Can you make your own yeast? Do you like chain mail? Well, the last one is silly; we ALL like chain mail, but I’ve often wondered what it would take to survive if every last food supplier we take for granted were gone. Cannibalism, by the way, is not the answer. It never is. So enter the movie, The Road.
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Winter. I’m totally ready. Bring it on. I’m making marshmallows at home starting now. Jet-Puffed – ha! This four-hour setting delivers two weeks of fluffy stuff that’s possibly healthier? You judge…
Few things in the kitchen feel mischievous and this is positively one of them. While nursing a hole in my mouth with pain medication, a post at The Royal Kitchen (a Watched Pot entry) a while back seemed more and more like a good idea: Homemade marshmallows.
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There are very few sites on matter. When adding exotic fruits to a salad, papaya, mango and pearapple are all good choices. Grocers local to the East Coast USA have started cramming pearapples in between the apples and pears and most that we’ve seen come from Chile. So what’s the real deal with these things?
It’s got pear’s skin, apple’s shape, Granny’s sweetness, a royal pear’s crunch… So just what the hell is this Applepear which is actually called a Pearapple? Different varieties exist and different names abound around the Globe. Here’s the scoop…
The Pyrus pyrifolia isn’t much of a mystery afterall. It’s a Pearapple; or a pear that resembles an apple in shape. There is
one site that scientifically tracks the cross breeding and seeding of hybrids, but it’s really boring to read even though it’s super-short.
A recent weekend in the “City that loves you back,” Philadelphia turned up healthy treats, franchise opportunities, a missed dinner, a surprise gem and a lackluster Michael Jackson on the first day of Spring; all in a day that started at 3PM.
What used to be, “The city of brotherly love,” changed quietly one day to something less, well, you know… Now, Philadelphia is known in some small circles as the city that loves you back. And I love Philadelphia. So with Philadelphia having attached itself firmly and proverbially…
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