Dr’s recommendation: more plants (forks) and less meat (knives). Our cholesterol is out of hand… Finding fresh produce is difficult this time of year, so we try to grow as much of it as we can…indoors. We are growing round after round of micro greens (beans and pea shoots) plus sprouts (alfalfa and cabbage) toContinue reading “Gardening – 95% Discount: Alfalfa Sprouts”
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Gardening – Let 2023 Begin: Seedlings & Micro Greens!
Gardening in January! Crazy perhaps. But the grow lights will keep these onions growing strong until they can go into a garden bed this April. Why start onions in January? The seedlings need to be 10 to 12 weeks old before putting them out in April. These seedlings were started on 1/16. Twelve weeks isContinue reading “Gardening – Let 2023 Begin: Seedlings & Micro Greens!”
Gardening – Easy & Tasty Micro Green Mung Beans
Operation Green Thumb continues despite the middle of a Wisconsin winter. This is an easy, inexpensive and healthy way to supply your own greens. Here’s my YouTube video of one of three ways we’re growing our own greens.
Cooking – Baked Buttery Garlicky Shrimp
New years eve and football bowl season provides a plethora of party recipes. We found this one touted as a NYE snack. To be honest, it is a little messy for a party if served in the cast iron skillet used to cook it in. But, Beth and I thought this was a great entreeContinue reading “Cooking – Baked Buttery Garlicky Shrimp”
Gardening – Micro Greens: Easy Peasy!
We loved being able to go to the garden in the and pluck tasty and healthy snacks out of the garden during outdoor harvest times last summer and fall. When the first killing frost arrived, that all ended…until January 1st. Well, we couldn’t go out to the garden which is now a micro tundra, butContinue reading “Gardening – Micro Greens: Easy Peasy!”