Quiche is a healthy and fast dinner for the middle of the week or a simple weekend lunch, or breakfast. Check out Eric's Quiche Recipe
Good Indian Food in Kensington Brooklyn
I was painting an apartment in the Kensington area of Brooklyn. Kensington borders several different ethnic neighborhoods, one of them being an area of people from Pakistan, Bangladesh, and India. I walked out of the building and toward MacDonald Ave, and saw an awning that said "Basmati" . Some of the east asian - indian...
Another use for leftover turkey or chicken
Continuing on my new plan to cook from what is in the fridge, Tony ( mr kim chi maker ) came over for lunch and we had this leftover turkey from one of our turkey injection tests. We also had some bread from the weekend and cheddar cheese. We tore the meat into pieces, and...
Super Fast Lasagna for a family dinner
I am in the midwest visiting my family, and its my nephew's birthday this weekend. Instead of the whole family going out for dinner, we decided to save everyone money and have dinner at my sister's house. On short notice, my sister whipped up a simple lasagna using no boil noodles and a jar of...
Install A Generator Transfer Switch, How to and How Not To
To safely use a generator to power your home, you can install a generator transfer switch. This can be done by a licensed professional or someone who has experience with breaker panels. We also have a generator transfer panel video and a post on how to pick a generator for home use. NOTE: Be sure...
Toilet Paper: Green your Bathroom
I was recently contacted by Seventh Generation about a new product they are coming out with, and they are going to send us some. we'll see what it is. This reminded me of our Green Your Bathroom : Toilet Paper episode of Real World Green. Once our site redesign is complete, we'll fully integrate the...
Add Walnuts after the flour in the banana bread recipe
I was working on a one-bowl banana bread recipe today, trying to simplify an already simple recipe. ( here is the final recipe ) Surfing the web, I found there are a lot of complicated recipes for banana bread: using cake mixes, Bisquic, all sorts of odd stuff. Why does is have to be? I...
Cheetahs run faster than Labradors
This week on Gardenfork Radio we talk with our good friends Julie and Tim from the UK. Julie tells us about her trip to Africa to work with Cheetah.org, and Tim tells us about his weather station. And we talk about the differences between beekeeping in the U.K. and the U.S.A. They are responsible for...
Winter Vegetable Gardening with cold frames GF Video
On Christmas Day we went out to the garden to take care of what we should have done in the fall. And we made a video about it. How unusual. I'm a big fan of Eliot Coleman, and his book, The Four Season Harvest. Its full of a ton of information, one of the things...
How to inoculate logs with mushroom spore - thanks to Cooking Up A Story
On my to do list is to learn more about propogating mushrooms. I want to learn how to grow mushrooms, and here is a great video by Ashley Terry of the blog Cooking Up A Story. Ashley went to Oregon to learn about inoculating birch logs with oyster mushroom spore. Check out Cooking Up A...
Tatsoi, Greens to grow in the Winter
We just shot a Gardenfork episode about gardening in winter. We shot it on Christmas Day, and I had neglected to pull out my portable cold frame - watch our how to make a cold frame video here - and I did not cover my raised beds with black plastic before the beds froze solid...
Eric's Waffle Recipe post Christmas, + cornmeal
Its the day after Christmas and I decide that I want to make Waffles. No one in my house, besides me and the Labradors, likes waffles, but I do, so I make them. This time I modified my waffle recipe - watch the how to make waffles video here - with cornmeal. Neat. I use...
Alphabet Sugar Cookies for my birthday
A good friend of mine stopped by the house and laid out this birthday message for me. What Fun! Making words with cookies. These are Alphabet Cookies cutters and two cookie batters, one a plain sugar cookie the other a fudge sugar cookie. You roll out the dough, cut the squares, then use the alphabet...
The Screened Bottom Board, leave open or closed in winter?
Both our hives have a plastic screened bottom board. I think screened bottom boards are a must for controlling varroa mites. Varroa mites are a big problem for bees, and with a screened bottom board, mites that fall off bees fall thru the screen and out of the hive. You can have even more mites...
The Holiday Show on Gardenfork Radio
Charlie and Eric talk about the holidays, Xmas trees and are they green, donating to charities as a gift, what to give to kids, Family finances, Ken Druse's Real Dirt radio, Elise's Simply Recipes iPhone friendly site The links: Ken Druse's Real Dirt Radio Elise Bauer's Simply Recipes iPhone site Human Society of Missouri's Long...
Mixer Meltdown into the Chocolate Chip Cookies
I volunteered to bake chocolate chip cookies for the barn's xmas party. Not brain surgery, I can do this. I pulled out my mixer, which i bought at a tag sale a while back. I invisioned the cream and butter creaming really nicely in the bowl, just like on TV. I added the 2 sticks...
Mayonnaise Recipe Yum! How to make Mayonnaise
We were out of mayonnaise up at the house, and we wanted to make turkey sandwiches, which must have mayonnaise! Check out how Eric makes mayonnaise, and learn how you can too. Its a simple mayonaise recipe and easy to do. If you add anything to this mayonnaise, it becomes and aoli. You could add...
Green Your Gift Wrapping, Green Your Holiday
Be green this Christmas with more ways to Green Your Holiday from Eric Rochow and Real World Green. Today, learn how to wrap presents in a green way, and see eric in his santa hat. fun. watch.