Wisdom and whimsy in moderate doses
Sometimes I write things for St. Louis Public Radio. Here’s what I wrote this week. Missouri Botanical Garden horticulturists answer gardening questions St. Louis CPA warns of fraud, identifies big changes in tax code LeVar Burton asks what if, expands Reading Rainbow for a new generation Ferguson library director looks for new ways to serve… Continue reading My stories: Week ending April 4
I have too many tomatoes, so I came up with a tomato salad recipe tonight. Tomato Salad 3 tomatoes, chopped 2 hard-boiled eggs, sliced 1/4 cup onion 1/2 cup croutons 6 slices of crispy bacon, crumbled 1/4 cup Italian dressing, or 1 tablespoon red-wine vinegar with 1/4 cup extra virgin olive oil Salt and pepper… Continue reading You say tomato; I say there are still 20 left
I came home with lots of fresh-from-the-garden produce last weekend. Here’s what (part of it) turned into. (Bonus: What salad isn’t better with bacon?) 7-layer salad 6 cups lettuce (or lettuce and spinach) 1/3 cup onion 1/3 cup sliced radishes 12 slices bacon, cooked and crumbled 1 cup peas 1 to 1-1/2 cups salad dressing… Continue reading What do you do with 10 pounds of lettuce?
When I was at my mother’s last weekend (pre-roller coaster ride), we picked and picked and picked and picked green beans. This wasn’t the first time, by any means. I brought home about half of the bounty — snapped, there was one-and-a-half gallon-size Ziploc bags of green beans. That’s a lot of green beans. They’re… Continue reading Fresh from (mom’s) garden