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To start, I made this recipe right after we got back from Italy. It was close to what we had while in Rome, but not quite. http://www.elise.com/recipes/archives/002709lasagna_bolognese.php It's a good recipe and the article and photography are great. It's only logical for me to post what I did, with pictures and how I tried to change the recipe! About two weeks ago I made a beef shank that was included in my 25 pound pack of organic meat. It slow cooked for hours. The marrow shrank to a conde… Continue

I do believe that my front yard is not living up to it's produce production. We have an amazing ginko on the park way so the front is fairly shaded. Then we have some evergreen shrubs that well, they are nice and well established. It would possibly look worse with out them, but i think they are ugly. In the front I usally try to put some annuals like pansys and geraniums. There is a nice little lavendar that I keep nurturing on the south east corner. It's the brighest corner by far. I was also… Continue

I'm ready to take my yard out to the back 40 and put it out of it's misery. A week before we left on our amazing Italian Vacation, I tripped over my big dog and broke my elbow. For the last three weeks my garden has been doing what gardens should do this time of year. Slowly dying. We had our first frost and then an indian summer warm up so everything is rotting and composting and in general disrepair. My tomatoes got the brunt of it. There are still hundreds of Super 100 cherrys still on the v… Continue

It rained. It rained A Lot. I saw Noah walk by and he refused to take my pets since they are fixed. Then it rained some more. My rain gauge goes up to 6 inches and it overflowed. Then I emptied it and it filled again. Finally, it rained. In short, the Forest Park Rib Fest was very wet and muddy. The smell of bbq and mud is not a pleasent smell. Jim and I are big time back yard cooks. I won't say barbequers since we're really more grillers. Sure we can slow cook with the best of them, but there… Continue

Don't go to bed mad. Stay up and fight. Don't cook mad. Your food will not taste as good. Don't garden mad. Those seedlings look a lot like weeds. Don't measure mad, cause your measurements will be wrong. Jim measured and ordered our new cabinet doors. We had got into an arguement about how to measure the doors. I asked him just to measure the old doors and he wanted to measure the openings. He measured the doors, but only measured the inside cut out of the doors, not the entire doors. They… Continue