Yes, Sugar IS Poison

I will look at this before I cook. I will look at this before I bake.

Must educate myself, so I can educate my kids.

Onions Arrived!

Our onions arrived from Johnny's Seeds yesterday.  I chose lovely Walla Wallas because they have nice green tops perfect for dicing.   

Here's a picture of a few that I've planted in your standard plastic planter box.  I have a place for them out in the garden, but it's been very cold.  In fact, there's currently melting snow on the lawn.  Using the planter allows me to haul them inside.

You can see they've already look greener.

And since hub and I are stepping up our anti-deer, anti-bug plan this year using a kennel (which I'll add a photo of later).   I'm thinking I might hang some planters of things deer don't like on the outside.

Looking forward to fresh salads with delish chopped scallions. 

SAVING MR. PARSLEY

What better way to start a blog about home than with something totally inane.  An herb saver is what I'm talking about.

Since I started gravitating back to my hippie-dippie roots, there's a lot more herbs hanging around the house.  And since it's Winter there's nothing in the garden but remnants, twigs and stems. So I'm having to pay hard cold cash for my thyme, rosemary, parsley and cilantro. 

I found this herb saver on Amazon for $7 dollars. You might be able to get a better deal locally, but since we have Amazon Prime I thought that was a reasonable price.  And now that I've found that it works, I'm going to buy a couple more.

Sad parsley left unloved in the fridge

Look!  The parsley actually looks better.  (What wonders water will work)

Here's the parsley crammed into it's new home.