from the miniscule to the enormous, we live in a lovely world. most of the time.
it's too hot to cook so i made this cottage cheese with capers, scallions, radishes spread for crackers (salt and pepper to taste), a chunk of danish blue cheese a tiny melon… delicious and very satisfying. healthy too, except maybe for that strip of bacon. i gotta have my meat.
i grew my own tomatos. these are the first to ripen. they taste better than store bought.
and this, you just have to see to believe. soooo coool. 😎
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Hi! Lovely planet! There I am picking wild blueberries these days. I copied the link (hope it's ok). Have a nice day! 🙂
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Scott, you eat like I do in the summer. It's just too dang hot to cook. Although I did make goulash Sunday night for a family dinner. I got everyone together to meet my new daughter in law from Vietnam. My goulash wasn't at all like Vietnamese pho but she liked it, that was the main thing. Have never tried to grow tomatos but I've tried an herb garden. Cilantro, oregano and mint do great, as do cucumbers….anything else seems to wither and turn to a crisp once it gets over 95. The baby cukes were delcious, better than store bought. The oregano grew so fast, that I had to keep taking off leaves to put in baggies in the freezer. This was two years ago and I still have some. The soil in my backyard is so alkaline that I have to add some good soil bought in bags from Home Depot. p.s. beautiful video. I'm wondering who is the composer of the music.
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I love pesto! I wonder if my frozen oregano leaves would work.
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I don't see why not, though I bet they would't refreeze very well.
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🙂 happiness :happy:
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Our tomatoes are coming in, too. It makes me glad to be alive 🙂 We've been getting blueberries for the better part of a month, but they've been pretty tart (even when ripe) until this week. We had so much oregano that I've made it into pesto, which I froze in ice cube trays, and then bagged. Thaw a couple of cubes, and dump some pasta on them, and presto! Pesto!
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of course it's alright norfrid.this is how i pick blueberries… "one for me, and one for the pie, two for me and one for the pie, three for me and one for the pie…"glad you liked the show. a friend sent it to me in my email, so i can do whatever i want with it. i'm sure the producer doesn't mind more hits.
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I love it. It's HOT here, too. I am savoring any tomato I can get my hands on and picked a couple grape toms I grew– tasty. Yours look delicious. I enjoy your kind of meal tonight, here at home we call it "munchie lunchie"… other day I had a cuc, tomatoes, basil and parsley fresh from the garden, with some smoked salmon, fresh mozzarella, kalamatas, cracked pepper, drizzle olive oil, good crackers. Enough to satisfy, but bacon would have made it better. Loved the show. I'd like to use the link on my MSN, hope that's OK.
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that's what i'm talking about. and eat what we like. :happy:
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blueberry sounds good, too
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blue planet, blue berries…. blue is in.
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that time of year… I'll post a picture of the blue&mulberries we used here to make cobbler… standing alone the mulberries wouldn't be wonderful, but the mix up is good. my friend gave me rhubarb that is begging to be cooked, I'll use blueberries alongside for colour & make a crisp. I notice you had radishes, something I never buy. I will start.
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I love scallions. I love ginger. A favorite (hey, you might appreciate this one!) is a handful of frozen blueberries and ice cubes thrown into ginger lemonade, the blues get all slushy and good. Particulary refreshing on the hottest of summer days. Homemade lemonade is always good (w/ some vanilla bean scraped into the boil) or quickly purchased: http://www.knudsenjuices.com/products/detail.aspx?groupID=11&categoryID=57&flavorID=181&productID=251I also posted my blue mulberry cobbler to show you: http://my.opera.com/studio41/blog/2008/08/09/i-like-to-grill-and-eat-mulberry-cobblerHave a nice summer week-end. Enjoy the Olympics 🙂
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oh, yummie to the cobbler… a stalk of scallion and a radish every day keeps the doctor away. fresh ginger in the juicer is a tonic for many functions especailly the heart. it actually makes grape juice or apple juice a tangy drink.live long and prosper :happy:i'm watching the olympic games opening ceremony… fantastic.i wonder how that looks from space.
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Ginger lemonade? Never heard of it, but it sounds delicious! Our mulberries are about done for the season. 😦
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hope you try it, it is good. ever use your mulberries?
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I mostly eat mulberries right from the tree, though I have been known to make syrup for waffles from them as well, and to put them in smoothies.
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that would be very good, mulberry syrup
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i make my own lemonade from fresh lemons. i make a lot of it. like a gallon then i throw slivered fresh ginger in it to just steep. a little apple cider vinegar and maple syrup and you have what i call 'kickapoo joy juice'. when i was haying in vermont my sixteenth summer, the farmer's wife made this. by 11:00 a.m. i was exhausted. but after a glass of that lemonade… i was strong through the day. magic. :happy:
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Delicious! :up:
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My friend told me about BRAGG'S vinegar being good for sinuses and weight-loss… I needed help with both, lol. It didn't work, though, I didn't lose a thing and I got sick. I won't blame the vinegar, I will try it again. I can't imagine kickapoo joy juice being real tasty, but, maple syrup would make it fine. The concoction I was drinking was agave nectar to sweeten, with tea or water and 2T. BRAGG'S. But anything to help my fatigue would be welcomed. I'll trying the kickapoo.from scratch, good for you l_Artman
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yes… use fresh… and there's something about getting a sweetener straight from a tree. 🙂 well honey would do. but it doesn't mix as well… settles to the bottom.also, if energy is a problem, throw enough molasses in the mix so that every glass will have a tablespoon full at least. and about an inch of ginger root slivered real fine so it can steep fast. :heart:it tastes good. :happy: and if you drink ten glasses a day instead of eating, you will lose a pound a day. i did it. it's hard, but it works. (and that was without any exercise.)then go back to eating just a little… gentle foods fresh fruit and veggies raw, juiced or steamed. then get up to brown rice and a little fish. never stretch your stomach to feeling full again and you won't regain the ten pounds.then in a few months do it again.eat an apple instead of cheese and crackers.the only time i ever lost weight besides the lemonade diet, was when i did hard physical labor daily…. like digging ditches, picking apples all day and building chimneys. even then you can gain weight if you eat too much. end of lecture.don't be too hard on yourself… baby steps. end. :troll:
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i dropped in and saw the camping yummies. thanks for the tip. i'm about to go camping myself… now i am raring to go. :happy:
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http://picasaweb.google.com/jillriter/PourL_ArtMan?authkey=ubRiYV-pWp4blueberry rose
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well… hmmm… I was just looking at this post and thought of you l_ArtMan and I got hungry for blueberries: http://my.opera.com/sanshan/blog/what-do-you-eat-when-you-go-camping?cid=5818557sifting through my photos to find the blueberry rose will burn a few calories, lol. I'm prone to the shakes and irritability if I liquid fast… I do it from time to time, but having been diabetic in pregnancy, I have to be careful with blood-sugar ebbs and flows. I'm enjoying the terrible heatwave sweating as much as possible and exercising out-of-doors… it's been a good summer. I will try the drink, though, it sounds very good and beneficial. I love molasses, too 🙂
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yummy dinner! :)Interesting film of the world. Thoroughly enjoyed it. Found the nighttime shots interesting. That the United States is well lit up on the East Coast more than the other half of the States. Surprising that.
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Artman's gone camping? Can't wait to share my bear story. Gotta watch that in August. Hide your berries!
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My berries will be in the next county before you start running. 😆
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berry picking… almost that time here too… 😀 blackberries and blueberry picking starts normally in September here. 🙂
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:hat:
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not gone yet… just aching to go. all i know is i am going north.we have blackberrys here but i want to float on my raft and pick blueberries from the mossy banks of an alpine lake. :happy:i will take off in my trusty black jeep as soon as my project is totally finished. it may not even be until september… but i can see the light at the end of the tunnel. 😎
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noah :lol:sounds like a good trip, ArtMan
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Hi Isabel 🙂
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😀 :hi:
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reminds me of the blueberry bushes in my great-aunts' yard. i could make myself sick from eating too many fresh berries and get in trouble for not bringing enough in the house to make the pie. the green apple trees do the same thing to me too!watch for those snakes when picking the blackberries, they love them to (those reptiles do).
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oh, that's a smart warning… the hills around here are covered with blacberries and teeming with rattlesnakes. be watchful and keep your ears open.
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yes scott, hearing is a good way to detect the rattlers. although, there are times when they don't use thier rattles. like if you don't see them and step on them or if you don't necessarily have them cornered. some rattlers can jump twice their body length without a full coil. there are a few in woodlands that are very aggressive and don't make much noise when in the attack mode. there are non-posionous snakes like the black bull snake that also like to eat the juicey fruits — they also eat rattler babies too. they might bite you if you step on them (those black ones), but it only hurts for a little while and heals quickly.
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my stepbrother wanted to be a herpatologist when we were in our teens…in winter park florida, our 'florida room' was home to 12 rattlesnakes he caught himself. they were all in a cage. but he had one eight foot 'black racer' that had the run of the house. many stories about that guy. his name was 'hercules'. 🙂
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gulp. now, I imagine, you are going to tell us you kept this nasty little secret from your mother. what happens to you if you get bit by a rattler? don't you die?!
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thank you bluebox for that chilling report! just in case, ArtMan, are you going to bring a physician or triage nurse, just in case? I don't think I'd dare hunt and peck blackberries in your neck of the woods, poison ivy is as perilous an adversary as I'd attempt to elude.I'm a chicken and I'd hate to think what a rattler's venom would do to a chicken!
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interesting… i will pay attention to the babies then. :smile:actually, my stepmother was pretty cool. i think she was more comfortable with them than i was.
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i didn't make them, mother nature produced them . . .. and they are a benefitial animal in our kingdom on earth. just like the black widow spider is. imo.:happy:
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scott, if it wasn't for the annual rattlesnake roundup in sweetwater; i wouldn't have learned so much about something i had feared for a very long time. they are still scaly and stinky! i rather prefer lizards to snakes in a reptile choice, but would never own one as a pet. 🙂
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a rattle snake bite can kill a human. usually, it causes severe pain and must be treated immediately by a physician. depending on how many times, location of the bite, and other factors there may not be a long amount of time before you need major medical treatment.a dog can survive a rattler's bite, but sometimes it causes the dog to suffer muscle tissue damage that is not a pretty sight.the venom of the rattler destroys muscle tissue and damages nerves rendering most any rodent or rabbit unable to flee. the younger the snake, the less control of how much venom is released upon biting it's victim, making the baby rattlers the most dangerous to humans and animals.the rattler is one of the few snakes that is born alive not hatched from an egg.
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no harm, no foul as long as them snakeys stay away from me… well now, I know you didn't make them, bluebox, but the chicken (moi) is part of God's creation, too– and what a lovely anmimal king and queendom it is! Chicken on the map is sort of like kumquat in the food chain. Dumb, but delicious and still wanting a chance to stay ALIVE! I, too, would prefer a sweet lil lizard (preferably a wickedlizard like Isabel) to go berry picking with– over a SNAKE anyday.What kind of spider was Charlotte, btw? She was OK, imo.
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i think that charlotte was a brown barn spider. the black widow doesn't usually weave a web high in the air unless there is a dark, damp environment. they usually weave their nests closer to the ground and in the corners of dark places. although, my friends the black widows, live in the front porch garden that has overgrown with dwarf junipers and old pine cones for bedding. the wolf spider (brown garden spider) lives high up and weaves a beautiful expanse of a web. the flies don't care much for the wolf spiders — they get caught in their webs.
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I read it, it's good. 🙂 I will enjoy my webs on high here and leave the broom finding for another day… (it's already been days, to months, to years…)bluebox, do you have a story about earwigs? I need one.
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scott, i hope you don't mind if i take this discussion further and lead the viewers to my blog post. i hope you enjoy the view. this one is for you studio . .. . . . deb.http://my.opera.com/1bluebox/blog/2008/04/29/the-show-today-reflects-on-a-memory-of-the-black-widow-spider
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earwigs don't like moth balls, but cats and dogs eat them — have to find a good hiding place away from those curious noses (that felines and canines have)! that's a short story about a very pesky insect — i've not found a good use for the little buggers yet! 😉
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😆 😆 😆 😥 i thought i was battling a bug (bugger)! :p
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Oy. I don't see that catching on!
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😆
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rofl… by now may I call you Scott?bluebox, earwigs seem to find a very good use for flowers… frightful little ugly things. I don't mean ArtMan's lovely picture above.
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they look lethal those earwigs but i don't think they are dangerous. :smile:uhhh, you can call me scott,or you can call me john… you can call me podloonaroon…just don' call me late for dinner. 😆
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😆 look closely at Mr. Earwig, he has pincers and will pinch ya if you ever are late to dinner 🙂
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Tomatoes! Right on! I wish I could find some garden ones.
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this picture of the earwig has me smiling again.
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