I have never been to a Waffle House , until now. I love waffles, see our how to make waffles video here, and have even done waffle recipe home made baking powder experiments here. But I had never been to a Waffle House. I love the name, and while on the road in the midwest,...
More on Fishing and the Great Outdoors GF Radio
Mike finishes up his how to fish for largemouth bass talk, ice fishing is just getting started, and there is still time to go out on a river and go fishing. Mike talks more about what kind of fishing lures for when, and why you shouldn't put your tackle box in the back of your...
Tiny House Directory free from Tiny House Blog
GardenFork became a fan of the Tiny House Blog on Facebook today, and at the same time signed up for their email newsletter. As a bonus, when you sign up for their email newsletter, you get a neat downloadable PDF, the Tiny House Directory, an indexed list of websites, blogs, architects, builders, and kits of...
Beaver Lodge Canoe Trip
Yesterday after the giant storm of 20 inches at the end of October was really a great day it was super puffy clouds out there blue sky about 50° and I said hey let's take out the canoe. So we put the canoe in the Ford F150 and drove down to one of our local...
Baking Powder Recipe - How to make it
Rick and I talked on GF Radio about his 'ah ha' moments working with baking powder, and Rick wrote a post about how baking powder works on his Rick's Column for GF. I added to the conversation that I had learned about how baking powder works, and why it needs to be fresh, from my...
Podcasts Worth Hearing: Negotiations
The first haggler to mention a price loses, right? Wrong. The first person who proposes a price sets the tone & expectations of the entire bargaining session. Even if it's just for self defense, I highly recommend Slate's Negotiation Academy, a series of 10-minute podcasts, one per week, on the art of negotiation. Session 3...
How To Repair a Rice Cooker - GF Radio
A Broken Rice cooker, and how to fix it & how baking powder works are the main topics of this GF Radio show, but of course we veer into other subjects as well. We've posted the Rice Cooker Repair ,What is Baking Powder and Free Leaf Compost articles that started this topic for Rick, and...
Free Leaf Compost, Thank You Neighbors - Rick's Column
Tomorrow's trash day and metal scavengers are already circling the neighborhood, but I've found GOLD! Gold, I tell ya'. My neighbors do all the work of sweeping and bagging these leaves for the trash guys. I just roll around the neighborhood picking up free compost material. Mulch, then re-bag with the mower, and 6 bags...
Baking Powder, How It Works - Rick's Column
Corn bread was pancake flat yesterday, which got me to studying the recipe and the ingredients. Then I realized I'd never understood baking powder. What is it? what does it do? BP acts like yeast, releasing CO2 to make gas bubbles so the batter will be fluffy. Yeast do it by eating sugars and then...
Rice Cooker Repair - Rick's Column
Our $10 Wal-Mart B&D rice cooker stopped working last night. I just opened it up and, using a multimeter, found an inline fuse blown. I clipped the fuse off and reconnected the wire. I can't imagine any real harm, since the circuit is gfi protected anyway. Am I missing something? Running a test batch of...
Harvest Honey with a Bee Escape - GF Video
Here's how we use a bee escape to harvest honey. When you harvest honey from your beehive, you need to get the bees out of the honey super ( the box of frames that has honey it it, usually the topmost super ). You can do this several ways; commercial beekeepers remove the bees from...
Homemade Garlic Planting Tool Makes Planting Seed Go Faster
This homemade garlic planting tool helps if you are planting more than a few rows of garlic. Planting a few rows of garlic in your home garden is pretty straightforward. To plant garlic for a market grower is a bigger deal. I was asked by a neighbor who sells garlic to help him plant seed garlic...
Steve Jobs and I : GF Radio
John Federico and Eric talk about Steve Jobs and his impact on their lives, and his impact on the world and business. Eric talks about a Fresh Air Interview with Steve Jobs' biographer, here is a link to that. A quote from Steve Jobs sums up a lot of what Eric and John talk about...
How To Grow Garlic, It's Not Rocket Science - GF Video
Watch our video on how to grow garlic, then go out and plant your garlic! There are a few keys things that we go over below. Wondering how to grow garlic? Its not rocket science, as even Eric can grow garlic. Its is easy to do, garlic does not have many diseases or pests, and...
Largemouth Bass how to fish for them by Mike GF Radio
How to fish for bass, bass behavior, and how to catch largemouth bass are the topic of Gardenfork Radio. Mike is a former tournament bass fisherman, and tells us how to find bass in a lake, and largemouth bass behavior throughout the year. Mike gives bass fishing tips and goes into largemouth bass behavior. Bass:...
Slow Cookers, iPhones, & Dogs : GF Radio
Monica and Eric talk about using slow cookers in the fall, and what phone eric should buy, and who is your favorite dog, all on GF Radio this week. Plus zen thoughts about being busy. photo by crass
Fermentation Sauerkraut How To update
Inspired by Daniel Gasteiger's new book Yes, You Can! and Freeze and Dry It too book on canning, freezing and more, we are now fermenting cabbage into sauerkraut. And we are shooting a video on how to make sauerkraut. Above are the two jars we are fermenting for the video. I did one batch with...
How to Hunt Deer for Food GF Radio
How to hunt deer for the beginner, what kind of gear you need to hunt deer, where do you hunt deer? Author Jackson Landers., author of The Beginner's Guide to Hunting Deer for Food (Beginner's Guide To... (Storey)) talks with Eric about hunting deer for food. "Hunting deer is the most inexpensive, environmentally friendly...