Looking for an unusual recipe for some of those onions you just grew in your garden? Try pickled red onions for something really zesty! This makes one pint jar of pickled onions. Peel and slice onion as thinly as possible. If you have a mandolin slicer then that works great in this application. Personally, I […]

We all look at them with admiration. Or desire. Or lust, affinity, respect, awe, deference, esteem, honor, etc. etc. Our Heroes. The people we would most like to be like. The people we would most like to live next to. Become best friends with. Whatever they do in their lives – give great speeches, create […]

There he was, the crunchy little bastard, laying on my bedsheet as I whipped the covers back. Something tickley was touching my leg as I awoke from slumber this morning. “What has gotten into my house now?”It was a Japanese beetle. About a half inch, roundish, greenish, brownish. Slow in walking, fast in flying. And how the hell did it get in my bedsheets?