Category Archives: Sustainable Living

Making Lemon Pepper Relish

I grow lemon peppers – aji limon – by the cartload (kinda) because 1) I depend on them for bean soup (preserved in sherry – add 2 peppers per 3-quart pot of soup) and 2) – and more important – our son, Matt, spends the weekend with us at the end of summer and usesContinue reading “Making Lemon Pepper Relish”

Mild Habanero Hot Peppers

The garden’s a mess, but I’m still picking the very mild habanero peppers.  They’re beautiful – lime green with shiny, pleated skin.  The plant’s lovely, too — about thigh-high with lime-kelly green flouncy leaves that tend to hide the many peppers they produce. The peppers are delicious. Aromatic with a distinct flavor that shines inContinue reading “Mild Habanero Hot Peppers”

Prevention’s Seven Foods to Avoid

It’s probably not news for anyone who’s been paying ANY attention at all over the past 20 or so years, but according to Prevention magazine’s website, there are seven foods that should never cross your lips. The list is a piece of affirmation for organic living. Link to the article below. http://www.prevention.com/7foodsthatshouldnever/index.shtml?cm_mmc=Content_Ads-_-Outbrain-_-Prevention-_-7foodsthatshouldnever/index.shtml

Food, Ales and Friendship

Anna Bowers, my unofficial goddaughter and dear friend, writes two blogs, one for TimesUnion and another for herself.  The TimesUnion Blog she does in large part for the benefit of the Bowers family’s cafe/wine bar, barVino, in the Adirondacks town of North Creek, NY, but we’re also partial to beers, various Dogfish Head concoctions fromContinue reading “Food, Ales and Friendship”

A Little Something for the Holidays

It’s just not Christmas until I hear the Hallelujah chorus by Georg Frideric Handel. The chorus, Handel’s musical tribute to the Messiah, was performed for the first time at Easter, 1742, not Christmas. No matter. It’s a moving reminder of what the Christian portion of this holiday season is actually meant to be about. Seeing it inContinue reading “A Little Something for the Holidays”