Water leaks in winter mean one thing, ice dams. Here’s how to fix ice dams. With the hard winter we’ve had, and then a few warm days, the ice dam on our roof caused water to run into our house. In this how to video, I show you how to deal with ice dams, how to try to remove and prevent them from leaking from your roof in to your home.
BE VERY CAREFUL when using a ladder, especially in winter. And as always, use of this information is at your own risk. Get a friend or two to help you.
Ice dams happen when warm air in the attic helps to melt ice and snow, and then the water re-freezes. This ice can work its way up underneath shingles and then this water leaks into your house. A bad thing.
So, how to fix an ice dam? Carefully. You are up on a ladder and its cold out. You have tools in your hands, you are wearing boots, heavy clothes. Be Careful. K?
Steve from the Born To Farm podcast and the Farm Cast Network joins us to talk about blogging with WordPress and making your own podcast, and Daniel Delaney of What’s This Food joins us to talk about how to cook Aebleskiver. Call our listener call in line: 860-740-6938 with comments or questions
What’s the best way to see New York, need tourist tips? On GardenFork Radio Monica and Eric talk about her recent visit to New York City, and more importantly, her forays into the center of the universe, Brooklyn, NY! Comments or questions? Call Us 860-740-6938
The restaurant we had dinner with Monica is called Savoy, its on Crosby and Spring in Manhattan.
There’s a ton of snow outside, and while in town, I decided it was a night for steak. At the butcher they had strip steak on sale, so i picked up two of them.
I really like Steak Au Poivre, and you can watch our how to cook steak au poivre recipe here. So I cooked up the steaks with some carrots simmered in water, butter, and cumin, plus some mashed potaotes.
Great meal and super simple to do, except the the Labradors hovering throughout the cooking process.
How to you cook steak, do you have a standard steak recipe? let us know below:
Anyone have any experience with Compost Tumblers? I am thinking of buying one for our daughter who lives in an urban area where piles of rotting ’stuff’ are frowned upon. What’s the best brand, size for a family of 4 ?
Is there any sort of automated way to feed chickens when you are going to be gone?
Our Pasta with Poppy Seeds Recipe comes from Joe Brancaccio of Brancaccio’s Food Shop in Windsor Terrace, Brooklyn, NY. You can make this recipe with other kinds of pasta, but the big round tube pasta works best. Its real good; make this and then tell us about it in the viewer forum.
1 lb of Paccherri or other big round tube pasta
1 medium onion sliced thinly from top to bottom
1 cup chicken broth – you need high quality broth for this
2 tablespoons butter
2 tablespoons poppy seeds
small handful of basil leaves, sliced thinly
1/2 cup mix of romano and parmesan cheese – not the stuff that comes in a round tube
olive oil for cooking
add 2 glugs of oil in a saute pan
over low heat, sweat the onions in the oil, you do not want the onions to brown, but you want them wilted nicely
add the chicken broth and allow it to reduce, toss the onions in the broth a few times while this cooks.
when the broth has thickened a bit, take the pan off the heat and add in the butter, stir it lightly
Social Media Consultant John Federico joins us to talk about how small businesses can use social media. John can be reached through his website: www.newrules.com
Eric reflects on how we can see light out of tragedy, ways to volunteer in your community, using super glue as a high tech band-aid, we talk about the Roku Box, Boxee, appleTV box with Daniel Delaney of What’s This Food, and we meet GF viewer Warren on Skype.
links to sites mentioned
Jon Stewart, The Daily Show http://www.thedailyshow.com/full-episodes/mon-january-10-2011-denis-leary
Freya from Chalet Nursery in Wilmette, IL joins us to talk about how to start a perennial flower bed in your yard. Starting perennial flower bed is not hard, especially when you listen to an expert like Freya, not like Eric. Call our listener call in line: 860-740-6938 and ask a question or leave a comment.
My Grandmother and Mom made Rugelach for the Christmas holiday. We also called Rugelach ‘roll-ups’ not sure why, maybe it was easier to say. But, Rugelachs are easy to make, and with Eric’s recipe for rugelach, you can too. Our family’s version of rugelach used the classic nut – sugar mix, but we also used jam or jelly. Its important not to use too much jam or jelly; when you bake the rugelach, some of the jam may seep out and burn you cookie sheet. Not a good thing.
Eric’s Rugelach Recipe
2 cups all purpose flour
2 sticks butter – cold – cut into 1/2 cubes
3 teaspoons sugar
8 ounces cream cheese – cut into 1 inch blocks
1 teaspoon salt
2 cups chopped walnuts
1/2 cup brown sugar
1 teaspoon cinnamon
lemon zest – optional
Preheat oven to 350F
In a food processor, pulse the flour and butter together until the flour coats the butter and the mix starts to look like large cornmeal.
Add in the cream cheese and pulse to mix it all together, it should start to form small marbles, and also just some fine powder as well. ( it never looks like it does on the food TV shows, don’t worry )
Put the flour mixture into a large bowl, and start to add small amounts of ice water, about 2 tablespoons at a time. Mix the water into the flour until you get a dough that is wet, but dry enough to handle.
Shape the dough into a big disc, wrap in plastic wrap, and put in the freezer for about 10 minutes, or the fridge for 30 minutes. You can also leave the dough in the fridge until the next day if you want.
Mix the walnuts with the brown sugar and cinnamon. You can also add lemon zest to the nut mix.
On a floured counter or plastic wrap, or whatever you like to use for dough, try to shape the dough into a big circle, like a pizza. If it isn’t perfect, don’t worry, use a pastry scraper to cut out a rough circle, save the extra pieces.
Pour the nut mixture onto the circle of dough
Cut pizza slices into the dough. the outside of the slice should be 1.5 – 2″ wide.
Roll up the slices so they look kinda like croissants.
Place on a greased baking sheet, bake at 350F for about 30 min. The crust should be slightly golden, you can bake them more if you like, just don’t burn them.
Severe Weather correspondent Tyler joins us today to talk about tornadoes, apple TV, the new viewer forum, a new way for seasoning cast iron, baking bread, and Viewer Mail. Call our listener call in line: 860-740-6938
I had not heard that appleseeds had arsenic in them until a viewer asked about it on our how to make applesauce video.
With a little searching, I found the Department of Energy Ask a Scientist site, where this question of arsenic in appleseeds was answered to my satisfaction.
Question – Do apple seeds have arsenic in them? Is it dangerous to
process apples with the seeds still in the fruit?
The good news: apple seeds do not contain arsenic. The bad news: apple
seeds DO contain cyanide. As for processing the apples, what kind of
processing are you interested in? Grinding apples and pressing them for
cider doesn’t release enough cyanide to be a problem; neither does cooking
apples and straining them to make a sauce. About the only way you can
actually ruin into a problem with the toxicity of apple seeds is if you save
the seeds from about a bushel of apples and eat them all at once.
So, as long as you don’t eat a bushel of apple seeds, you are fine. Eating a bushel full of anything could probably kill you, don’t you think?
What other poisons in food myths, rumors, facts have you heard about? Let us know below.
Air Travel has a huge carbon cost, its not green at all. Consider travel by train, its very green, and much less stressful. Watch this episode of Real World Green and green your travel. How do you green your travel or vacation? Let us know below:
Learn how to get better gas mileage and green your car in this Real World Green video, on location at Eric’s dad’s house. Some more information than you need to know in this one, but still, you’ll learn some tips on getting better MPG from your car. Let us know your suggestions in the comments below:
Greening your office starts with paper use in your office or home. Recycled Paper is just the start to an eco office. Watch here as we show you a few ways to make your office more green, and less full of paper. How to you green your office and home? Let us know below:
Severe Weather correspondent Tyler joins us today to talk about tornadoes, apple TV, the new viewer forum, a new way for seasoning cast iron, baking bread, and Viewer Mail. Call our listener call in line: 860-740-6938
