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A low-key image of some delicious red alaea salt, taken for today's Macro Mondays' theme 'Condiments'.
Red alaea salt, also known as Hawaiian red salt, is an unrefined sea salt that has been mixed with alaea, an iron-oxide-rich volcanic clay that gives the salt its characteristic colour.
Psyllids on Eucalyptus sapling. Although these are common in the Canberra region, I could not find an exact match on the internet.
An ID would be nice if you know what it is.
See the psyllid just above the dew drop is extruding a bubble of excreta. This is highly nutritous and forms an important part of the diet of ants. This was taken early in the morning, and the ants were just beginning to crawl up the stems of the saplings.
Callum Brae, Australian Capital Territory, February, 2015.
Mule Deer doe, Meyer Ranch
Seems pretty comfortable around people.
from the National Park Service -
Mule Deer Diet
Mule deer are ruminants; animals with four-chambered stomachs that chew cud reguritated from their first stomach, or rumen. Bacteria in the rumen helps a mule deer break down their food. Compared to other animals of their size, mule deer have small stomachs. This means they must be selective in what they eat and browse on higher-quality, more nutritous plants. They feed primarily on forbs (flowering, herbaceous plants), the leaves and twigs of woody plants, and on mast (berries, fruit). In
Arbutus unedo is an evergreen shrub or a small tree native to Europe. It is collogially called 'Strawberry Tree" because its strawberry-colored fruits somewhat resemble strawberries. The fruits of this tree are very nutritous and full of sugar, which is why they are mostly used for making jams, pastries, fruit yogurts, and alcoholic beverages.
This photographic image was artistically enhanced using an
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Thalipeeth and masala chai with a great book on slumberous afternoons.
Thalipeeth is a Maharashtrian speciality and is both filling and nutritous - a kind of a patted spicy flat bread made with a mixed flour of various indian cereals and lentils. Dahi (yogurt) or home-made white butter is generally had as an accompaniment.
Robin Triptych.
The robin has to work hard to feed from the suet blocks. His legs are not strong enough to support him in the acrobatic fashion of Blue Tits or Great Tits.
The tits can support their weight fully on their legs and move about the cage but the robin has to use its wings for added support to change position or support its body weight. But it is determined to get several beakfuls of suet and seeds before it leaves the food station.
The robins visiting my garden feeder will land on the suet cage but they prefer to take scraps from the ground or balance on a branch to get at the suet.
Landing on the suet cage they have to take all their weight with leg angles that are not natural to them.
However, the freezing fog and low temperatures mean they will take on as much nutritous food as they can, as quickly as they can and from whatever source they can whilst it is available.
From the Swallowtail Garden Seeds collection of botanical photographs and illustrations. We hope you will enjoy these images as much as we do.
Our foothills housing development attracts much wildlife not usually associated with urban living. Most of the landscaping here is natural desert, but the deer typically help themselves to much more nutritous ornamental shrubbery. This is a young forked buck that greeted me this morning in my office. The deer seem to prefer our neighborhood locale, and offer continual sightings... often stopping traffic. I shot this image through my office window. This buck was accompanied by two does... they were feeding in my vegetable garden! He's perhaps ten feet distant!
IMG_7682; Mule Deer
Elyse Musandji (right), president of one of the comunity nutrition groups in the town of Masi Manimba, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, teachers members of a neighbouring community how to produce milk from peanuts. Peanuts are a locally grown product which are typically roasted and sold as a roadside snack. But they can be turned into a nutritous milk - which children love - by soaking them in water, grinding them in a mortar and filtering the paste.
Background
Acute malnutrition is a major public health problem across the Democratic Republic of Congo. UK aid has supported the government of DRC and aid agencies including Action Against Hunger to provide emergency nutrition response programmes across DRC in 2010 and 2011.
In some areas, the communities have taken the ideas that Action Against Hunger brought to them, and organised themselves to tackle malnutrition from the ground up - by forming their own co-operative farms and self-support groups.
Read the full story at www.dfid.gov.uk/Stories/Case-Studies/2012/Sowing-the-seed...
Picture: Russell Watkins/Department for International Development
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A perfectly cooked roast with carrots, potatoes, onions, and garlic. Mm-MM!
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Їжа, придатний для короля!
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First, buy you one of these pinche mofos -
www.amazon.com/Granite-Ware-18-Inch-Covered-Roaster/dp/B0...
You can get these everywhere...Walmart, Target, etc. For my money the best roasting pan you can buy!
Next you gonna need a roast (Well, Duh!). Whatever size and type you like, as long as it fits comfortably in the roaster with room enough for vegetables and for the lid to fit snugly and properly.
Now you can riff on the roast all day long: marinate it, inject it, etc. My recipe is for a plain old, minimally seasoned/taste the meat roast, with potatoes, garlic, onion, and carrots.
First pour some good cooking oil into the roaster so that it completely covers the bottom of the pan. I prefer either Safflower or olive oil. Next add 1/4 - 3/8 inch of water into the roaster -- this keeps the meat and vegetables from drying out and basically turns roasting into a "set it and forget it" type process.
Put your roast into the center of the roaster pan. Salt it lightly, and I also use some Lawry's Seasoned Salt:
www.jessicascoupons.com/2010/08/couponscom-new-lawrys-sea...
Add pepper if desired, and as I said, you could riff on this (A-1 Sauce; Worcestershire Sauce; etc.) but I usually don't, as the meat is flavorful enough. Oh, by the way, I don't look for any particular type of roast...just whatever is the right size and cheap.
Peel and slice into halves several potatoes...I usually use at least 6-8...and distribute them evenly around the roast. Slice a small onion into thirds and distribute the whole slices evenly around the pan. Slice fresh carrots, 8-10 or so, into thirds and distribute evenly around the pan. Smash and dice 5-6 cloves of garlic and distribute evenly around the pan, with one going on top of the roast. Next slice into 1/4-inch slices 1/2 to 1 whole stick of butter and distribute evenly over the vegetables, with one or two slices going on top of the roast. Slap the lid on that sucker and put it into a preheated 325-degree oven.
It's gonna cook about 2-1/2 to 3 hours, depending on the size of the roast. I usually take a small fork and test the meat at about the 2-1/2 hour mark. When the meat literally seperates with no effort at all as you fork into it that bad boy's ready!
Throw that stuff onto a plate and enjoy the hell out of it! When the roast is done you won't have to use a knife, you can pull it apart with your fingers and cut it with a fork.
Lord-a-mighty!
More of my original recipes in my set, "Come & Get It:"
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Our foothills housing development attracts much wildlife not usually associated with urban living. Most of the landscaping here is natural desert, but the deer typically help themselves to the much more nutritous ornamental shrubbery. This forked buck that greeted me this morning by peering at me through my office window from the garden. Our contractors that were repairing some house structure had left this gate open. These deer seem to prefer our neighborhood locale, and offer continual sightings... often stopping traffic. I shot the first images of the buck through my office window. This buck was accompanied by two does... they were feeding in my vegetable garden. When I went out to shoo them off they casually sauntered away as if they owned the place!.
IMG_7685; Mule Deer
...ain´t as bad as rumoured.
Seems to be there´s a general assumption that hospital food is boring, tasteless and not at all appetizing.
Around here, it is the totally opposite.
You can basically order whatever you want, whenever you want it and it is nutritous, delicious and a feast for the eye.
I tried this recipe when I was on a diet ... because its so filling and nutritous it stopped me from craving cakes or something sugary in between meals and really help me lose a few pounds ...
Ingredients
2 tablespoons olive oil
1 medium onion, coarsely chopped
3 tablespoons tomato paste
2 teaspoons ground coriander
2 teaspoons ground cumin
5 garlic cloves, minced
1 teaspoon harissa hot sauce, plus extra for serving
6 chicken legs or thighs
3 small tomatoes, peeled, seeded and coarsely chopped
1 large carrot, peeled and cut into 1/4 inch slices
1 medium potato, peeled and cubed
6 ounces pumpkin or winter squash, peeled and cut into 1/2 inch cubes
8 cups chicken broth
1 medium zucchini, cut into 1/4 inch slices
1 14 1/4 ounce can garbanzo beans, drained
1/3 cup couscous
salt and freshly ground pepper to taste
Method
In a large soup pot or oven, heat the oil over medium high heat. Cook the onion, stirring occasionally until golden, 4 to 5 minutes. Add the tomato paste, coriander, cumin, garlic and harissa, if using. Stir to blend.
Add the chicken. Stir to coat. Reduce heat to medium. Add the tomatoes, carrot, potato, pumpkin, and broth. Cover and cook until the vegetables are tender, 35 to 40 minutes. With a slotted spoon, transfer 2 cups of the vegetables to a bowl, and ladle in 2 cups of the broth. Let cool. Transfer to a blender or food processor, and puree until smooth. Return to pot. With a slotted spoon, transfer the chicken to a plate. When cool enough to handle, remove the skin and bones. Return the boned chicken to the pot.
Add the zucchini, garbanzo beans and couscous. Continue cooking until the couscous is tender, 12 to 15 minutes. Season with salt and pepper. Serve with extra harissa on the side
See the recipe and instructions on our site www.rexipe.com/recipes/96-tunisian_couscous_soup
Elyse Musandji, president of a community nutrition group in the town of Masi Manimba, Democratic Republic of Congo, teaches members of a neighbouring community how to produce milk from peanuts. Peanuts are a locally grown product which are typically roasted and sold as a roadside snack. But they can be turned into a nutritous milk - which children love - by soaking them in water, grinding them in a mortar and filtering the paste.
Background
Acute malnutrition is a major public health problem across the Democratic Republic of Congo. UK aid has supported the government of DRC and aid agencies including Action Against Hunger to provide emergency nutrition response programmes across DRC in 2010 and 2011.
In some areas, the communities have taken the ideas that Action Against Hunger brought to them, and organised themselves to tackle malnutrition from the ground up - by forming their own co-operative farms and self-support groups.
Read the full story at www.dfid.gov.uk/Stories/Case-Studies/2012/Sowing-the-seed...
Picture: Russell Watkins/Department for International Development
Terms of use
This image is posted under a Creative Commons - Attribution Licence, in accordance with the Open Government Licence. You are free to embed, download or otherwise re-use it, as long as you credit the source as Russell Watkins/Department for International Development'.
Green smoothie recipe:
1 Frozen Banana
6 Strawberries
3/4 c. Unsweetened Almond Milk
2 Huge Handfuls of Baby Kale
1 Handful of Baby Spinach
Juice of 1/2 of a lemon
Juice of 1/2 of a lime
fitness, health, wellness and living the good life
By Erika Swinson from Elkton, MD
Dream Theme: Health
What is the story behind your panel?
"My dream for a better future has evolved during the making of this panel. At first I was thinking about the role nutritous foods play in so many of the themes explored in the Dream Rocket project. If everyone had nutritious food to eat, a basic need would be met that might lead to healthier more productive and happy people all over the world. In my mind, this sentiment covered health, poverty, peace, science/technology, community, etc. Starting from this point I created the background of my panel.
The background is done in shades of yellow with triangles of red, orange, and yellow radiating around the edges and is symbolic of sunlight and joy, the perfect background for my vision. The four birds are blue with sqirling white lines and I think of them as the wind and rains that nurture and provide. I wanted to use bright colors not just so that they can be seen from far away on the rocket but also as a symbol of my hope for a brighter tomorrow.
Rather than food for the center, I came up with the idea of baskets. The baskets appealed to me both as a more traditional quilting symbol and as a broader symbol fo all that we might share with each other. In this way my thinking moved from food to any of the gifts, skills, or talents people might share to help make all the burdens of living more manageable. Thus, they are different colors and can be broadly seen as whatever abundance the viewer envisions as their gift for others.
So my dream for the future is wrapped up in the idea of abundance, the abundance of almost anything we can share with each other in order to end poverty, encourage health, push for the positive progress of science and technology, grow our communities, spread the value of peace, etc. I believe that the abundance of the unique gifts each of us brings to our lives, when shared with others, is most promising foundation for a better world to come. In this way, my dream is for a better tomorrow by working each day with what all of us can contribute for a better today."
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A wholesome, nutritous, easy to make bread. I love to have it with dipped in some olive oil and balsamic vinegar.
Ingredients
1 package dry yeast
2 cups lukewarm water
2 cups flour
Dissolve yeast in water. Add flour to mix.
Bread:
3 cups pumpernickel flour
2 cakes yeast
1/2 cup warm water
6 cups unbleached flour
2 teaspoons salt
1 2 cup honey
Method
Blend pumpernickel flour into starter along with 1 cake of yeast. Stir in 1/2 cup water. If too stiff, add a bit of water. Turn dough out onto floured board. Knead several minutes. Place dough in greased bowl.
Cover and let stand until double in size. Punch down and gradually add rest of flour, salt, honey and yeast. If too stiff add a little water, if too sticky add a little flour. Knead 5 to 8 minutes. Divide and place in pans. Bake at 400F for 35 to 40 minutes.
Enjoy
Maryan
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Seen here on the grilled burrito shell (and inside the companion), cotija cheese, pinto beans, black beans, hand-diced grape tomatoes, cilantro.
The beverage?
Grapefruit juice... more'n likely.
I grow this tree in central Florida where the temps get down in low 20's. Freezing kills the top but base returns every year with more vegetable. I eat it in salads and dry it for a powder. The powder goes into pet food for my dogs and cats and is fed to meal worms and crickets that get fed to the pet lizards. Mealworms love the stuff. I also found chickens love it as well. Said to be the most nutritous plant on earth known to man. In its native lands the beans are eaten elsewhere the leaves and beans are eaten.
Energy 37 Kcal (2%) 64 Kcal (3%)
Carbohydrates 8.53 g (6.5%) 8.28% (6%)
Protein 2.10 g (4%) 9.40 g (17%)
Total Fat 0.20 g (1%) 1.40% (7%)
Cholesterol 0 mg (0%) 0 mg (0%)
Dietary Fiber 3.2 g (8%) 2.0 g (5%)
Vitamins
Folates 44 µg (11%) 40 µg (10%)
Niacin 0.680 mg (4%) 2.220 mg (14%)
Pyridoxine 0.120 mg (9%) 1.200 mg (92%)
Riboflavin 0.074 mg (6%) 0.660 mg (51%)
Thiamin 0.053 mg (4.5%) 0.257 mg (21.5%)
Vitamin A 74 IU (2.5%) 7564 IU (252%)
Vitamin C 141mg (235%) 51.7 mg (86%)
Electrolytes
Sodium 42 mg (3%) 9 mg (0.5%)
Potassium 461 mg (10%) 337 mg (7%)
Minerals
Calcium 30 mg (3%) 185 mg (18.5%)
Iron 0.36 mg (4.5%) 4.00 mg (50%)
Magnesium 45 mg (11%) 147 mg (37%)
Phosphorus 50 mg (9%) 112 mg (20%)
Selenium 8.2 µg (15%) 0.9 µg (1.5%)
Zinc 0.45 mg (4%) 0.60 mg (5%)
The ten or so litres of vegetable curry that I cooked up over the weekend. The curry isn't that amazing. It's very basic, but very nutritous. It is also guranteed to simplify my cooking for a week to come.
VitaMan skincare products for men can be found at Thompson Alchemists in NYC
Australia's Indigenous people have discovered which plants, fruits and herbs can heal wounds, cleanse, moisturise and protect the skin and condition the hair and scalp over thousands of years.
The following is a short list of the major active plant extracts found in the VitaMan range and their history of use.
GRASS LILY (tall grass) - Traditionally used in healing burns, cuts, abrasions, facilitating rapid healing through multiple cell division. Relieves itching, bites, skin irritations. An excellent moisturising extract that penetrates the skin and is easily absorbed. (Shave Creme, After Shave Balm and Face and Body Moisturiser, Foot Gel and Paw Paw Creme)
LEMON MYRTLE (tonic herb) - Anti-bacterial, high content of Citrol. A beautiful fresh zingy fragrance of Lemon, Lime and Lemongrass. Strong anti-fungal properties make it ideal for cleansing the skin. (Scrub, Shower Gel and Hair Wax).
QUANDONG KERNEL OIL (native peach fruit) - High in Santalbic Acid which as a natural anti-inflammatory treats itchy scalps and relieves minor skin irritations. High in essential fatty acids which enrich and nourish the hair. (Shampoo, Conditioner, Scalp/Hair Treatment).
BLUE CYPRESS OIL (cypress tree bark) - Anti-microbial, anti-bacterial like Tea Tree and with similar healing properties. Excellent for cleansing the skin and scalp. This oil produces a fresh and masculine natural aroma. (After Shave Balm, Moisturiser, Shampoos, Conditioners and Treatments).
WILD ROSELLA FLOWER (native flower) - This native flower has a high percentage of phenols which are a natural potent anti-oxidant. In combination with Kakadu Plum these ingredients are used as topical free radical scavengers that will help prevent damage to the skin caused by the ravages of the urban environment. (Skin Protector)
KAKADU PLUM (native fruit) - Used by aborigines as a nutritous source of vitamins and energy, Kakadu Plum has the highest percentage of naturally occurring Vitamin C. The latest research shows that the anti-oxidant properties from naturally occurring vitamins can be a powerful way of caring for the skin and may help retain a more youthful appearance. (Skin Protector)
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I grow this tree in central Florida where the temps get down in low 20's. Freezing kills the top but base returns every year with more vegetable. I eat it in salads and dry it for a powder. The powder goes into pet food for my dogs and cats and is fed to meal worms and crickets that get fed to the pet lizards. Mealworms love the stuff. I also found chickens love it as well. Said to be the most nutritous plant on earth known to man. In its native lands the beans are eaten elsewhere the leaves and beans are eaten.
Energy 37 Kcal (2%) 64 Kcal (3%)
Carbohydrates 8.53 g (6.5%) 8.28% (6%)
Protein 2.10 g (4%) 9.40 g (17%)
Total Fat 0.20 g (1%) 1.40% (7%)
Cholesterol 0 mg (0%) 0 mg (0%)
Dietary Fiber 3.2 g (8%) 2.0 g (5%)
Vitamins
Folates 44 µg (11%) 40 µg (10%)
Niacin 0.680 mg (4%) 2.220 mg (14%)
Pyridoxine 0.120 mg (9%) 1.200 mg (92%)
Riboflavin 0.074 mg (6%) 0.660 mg (51%)
Thiamin 0.053 mg (4.5%) 0.257 mg (21.5%)
Vitamin A 74 IU (2.5%) 7564 IU (252%)
Vitamin C 141mg (235%) 51.7 mg (86%)
Electrolytes
Sodium 42 mg (3%) 9 mg (0.5%)
Potassium 461 mg (10%) 337 mg (7%)
Minerals
Calcium 30 mg (3%) 185 mg (18.5%)
Iron 0.36 mg (4.5%) 4.00 mg (50%)
Magnesium 45 mg (11%) 147 mg (37%)
Phosphorus 50 mg (9%) 112 mg (20%)
Selenium 8.2 µg (15%) 0.9 µg (1.5%)
Zinc 0.45 mg (4%) 0.60 mg (5%)
Our foothills housing development attracts much wildlife not usually associated with urban living. Most of the landscaping here is natural desert, but the deer typically help themselves to the much more nutritous ornamental shrubbery. This forked buck that greeted me this morning by peering at me through my office window. Our contractors that were repairing some house structure had left this gate open. These deer seem to prefer our neighborhood locale, and offer continual sightings... often stopping traffic. I shot the first images through my office window. This buck was accompanied by two does... they were feeding in my vegetable garden. When I went out to shoo them off they casually sauntered away.
IMG_7684; Mule Deer
Eastbound billboard on the Santan Freeway Loop 202 for Jason's Deli.
Jason's Deli
Chandler's Soup of the Season!
Irish Potato
2 Chandler locations:
Jason's Deli at 3941 W. Frye Road just south of Chandler Fashion Center Mall.
Chandler, AZ 85226
(480) 812-2892
Exit at McClintock Drive/Chandler Village Drive Exit 51 off the Santan Freeway. Turn left on Chandler Village Drive to Frye Road at the Chandler Village Shopping Center.
Jason's Deli at 7230 West Ray Road just east of I-10
Chandler, AZ 85226
(480) 705-9266
Visit www.jasonsdeli.com.
The Santan Freeway is in the southeast valley of Phoenix. Onsite Insite offers billboards along the Santan Freeway between I-10 and the Price Freeway Loop 101 in Chandler.
A serving of steamed catfish with vegetables fresh from the farm! Enjoyed at farm restaurant.
Love life, live to eat!
People ask me what I cook. Well. Here it is: stuff in my kitchen.
I sauteed the last of my Chinese cabbage (which is uber cheap and pretty tasty) in some butter (because that's so Asian) and added salt, pepper, red chili flakes (just RANDOM CONDIMENTS), some sesame seeds, and at the end...furikake. For no real reason. Hey, it made it taste better. This was surprisingly okay. I mean, I actually liked it. I'm not saying it was very nutritous but certainly, it could've been worse.
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We used to own our slaves. Now we just rent them.” ~ quote from Harvest of Shame documentary.
America is a funny place.
Land of wealth and prosperity for many.
A McDonald’s on every corner (not quite a chicken in every pot, but you get the idea.). A McMansion on every block. Or so it seems.
Yeah, both sides want to bicker about the unemployment rate – its up, it’s down, you’re using skewed numbers, that number is downright implausible.
Whatever the case…the sad fact remains…there are many, many jobs that Americans don’t or won’t do.
We’ll eat that $42 steak…but we won’t wash the dishes. We’ll live in that McMansion, but we sure as hell don’t want to clean it.
And we’ll put those blueberries on our Cheerios in the morning, but we sure don’t want to bend our back and pull them off the bushes.
Nope, for the most part, all those blueberries that get picked in Monmounth, Ocean and Burlington counties of New Jersey don’t get pulled from the bushes by locals – except of course if it’s one of those fun Sunday outings with the kids – Hey gang, let’s all go to the U-Pick-’Em Farm today!
All the lettuce, soybeans and corn that needs to get picked? That tomatoe on the Subway sandwich? Yeah, we ain’t getting our hands dirty with bringing that in either.
It’s below us Americans to do that work, unemployment numbers and Jack Welch be damned.
But it has to get done, the land has to be farmed. New Jersey isn’t called The Garden State for nothing.
So, during harvest season, which has been ongoing and is in full swing now, it’s done by migrant workers. The Mexican and Hatiains that travel throughout the state, living in subpar conditions, hoping to find work and earn a little money – maybe $12,00 a year if they are lucky.
Some are here legally and have papers, some don’t. Often, the employers don’t ask.
They just know the work has to get done.
And it does. Starting at sun up till well after it’s dark. The fields get picked clean, tired bodies drag themselves back to a cramped migrant house and they get ready for the next day, to do it all over again.
Grapes of Wrath, Jersey style. Or the road-paving scene from Cool Hand Luke.
Often, there are children involved. Non-Americans for sure. they tag along as their parents try to find work, always the outsider. They have to get fed and clothed too. And educated somehow.
Luckily, there’s something called the The Migrant Education Program, a nationwide federally funded bipartisan program established in 1966 that helps these children get a basic education and a few nutritous meals throughout the day.
Title 1, Part C of the U.S. Department of Education.
What helped bring this progrma about was a 1960 documentary by the great journalist Edward R. Murrow called Havest of Shame. Click that link above to watch it.
Then, a couple of years ago, CBS News revisited this topic. Took just five minutes to revist the topic, rather than 55 when Murrow did it.
Some of the migrants have immigration papers, many are here illegally, but — under this federal policy — all are permitted and encouraged to send their kids to school.
Big of us, right?
A few years ago, I traveled all the way to China to report on a migrant education program that my company supports there.
Do we even support a local one? I don’t know but I’m going to ask and find out. Seems like we should right?
Every morning, on my drive into work, I’ve been passing scenes like the one above. Got me to thinking. And to doing some research.
It’s in my backyard. I think I need to explore this topic further.
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Our foothills housing development attracts much wildlife not usually associated with urban living. Most of the landscaping here is natural desert, but the deer typically help themselves to the much more nutritous ornamental shrubbery. This forked buck that greeted me this morning by peering at me through my office window. Our contractors that were repairing some house structure had left this gate open. These deer seem to prefer our neighborhood locale, and offer continual sightings... often stopping traffic. I shot the first images through my office window. This buck was accompanied by two does... they were feeding in my vegetable garden. When I went out to shoo them off they casually sauntered away.
IMG_7686; Mule Deer
At lunchtime, we were served a generous plate of hot and delicious food, offered by All Saints' Cathedral, which agreed to break the Lenten fast for this special occasion. The students queued very patiently and were rewarded with a plateful of nutritous lunch.
Schnookie shares lots of Garden Grub dinners, but never takes credit for the delicious Garden Grub Breakfasts I eat. This morning I dined on homemade yogurt (not grubby), homemade granola (made from cider pressed from our own apples), homemade Blackberry Brandy Jam (made with last year's garden blackberries), all topped with this morning's garden berries. Yum!
-- Pk.
Thanks to PJ in Paw Paw, MI for sending these to us! What a wonderful native fruit this is...yet it is so unknown. With flavors ranging all the way from creamy custard, banana, vanilla, to mango. Paw Paws are in the Annonaceae, or custard apple family. They're packed with nutrients and a natural pesticide can be derived from the foliage- What a useful tree!??
Allamakee County, Iowa - June 13th, 2010 - off Bear Creek Road.
Edible and very nutritous, but tasteless.
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