Our Food Web — Bright Mites at the Soil Frontier
This Day in Food: May 1, 2012 It's May Day today and we're at the edge of the soil frontier, discovering a miniscule link in the enormous food web.Today we were poking around in the garden, checking on the emerging spinach, and we saw a red dot move across the soil. Then another. Finally, crouching way down and picking up the clump of earth one of the dots was moving across, we saw it - a Red Velvet Mite."The Ruby lord of the love garden," as it is called by the Chicago ...
Pan-Fried Chicken (of the Woods) and Garlic
This delicious fungus will amaze you with its flavor of chicken, lemon and garlic.We love this mushroom.If we are lucky enough to comes across it, this is one of our favorite ways to prepare it. Use as a substitute for chicken in almost any dish.Ingredients:Chicken of the Woods, Laetiporus sulphureusGarlicOlive OilSalt, PepperHow to Make It:Trim fresh Chicken of the Woods, discarding any tough parts that are no longer "juicy." Tear strips along grain (or cut if ...
Lose Fat With Cabbage (Salad), Really
Lose Fat With Cabbage, ReallyIt can help get our veins breathing, make our heads hairy and our bellies flat!We're like most everyone else. During the winter we developed an extra layer of insulation. Now that the warmer weather is finally here, we'd like to lose it.Cabbage has long been known to promote health and has been highly valued for its many medicinal properties.According to the Roman Marcus Cato, Brassica est quae omnibus holeribus antistat (It is the cabbage which ...
