Posted on 07/24/2009 3:37:21 AM PDT by nw_arizona_granny
Weekly Roundup - Living On Nothing Edition Category: Roundups | Comments(15)
Did you hear about the guy that lives on nothing? No seriously, he lives on zero dollars a day. Meet Daniel Suelo, who lives in a cave outside Moab, Utah. Suelo has no mortgage, no car payment, no debt of any kind. He also has no home, no car, no television, and absolutely no “creature comforts.” But he does have a lot of creatures, as in the mice and bugs that scurry about the cave floor he’s called home for the last three years.
To us, Suelo probably sounds a little extreme. Actually, he probably sounds very extreme. After all, I suspect most of you reading this are doing so under the protection of some sort of man-made shelter, and with some amount of money on your person, and probably a few needs for money, too. And who doesn’t need money unless they have completely unplugged from the grid? Still, it’s an amusing story about a guy who rejects all forms of consumerism as we know it.
The Frugal Roundup
How to Brew Your Own Beer and Maybe Save Some Money. A fantastic introduction to home brewing, something I’ve never done myself, but always been interested in trying. (@Generation X Finance)
Contentment: A Great Financial Principle. If I had to name one required emotion for living a frugal lifestyle it would be contentment. Once you are content with your belongings and your lot in life you can ignore forces attempting to separate you from your money. (@Personal Finance by the Book)
Use Energy Star Appliances to Save On Utility Costs. I enjoyed this post because it included actual numbers, and actual total savings, from someone who upgraded to new, energy star appliances. (@The Digerati Life)
Over-Saving for Retirement? Is it possible to “over-save” for retirement? Yes, I think so. At some point I like the idea of putting some money aside in taxable investments outside of retirement funds, to be accessed prior to traditional retirement age. (@The Simple Dollar)
40 Things to Teach My Kids Before They Leave Home. A great list of both practical and philosophical lessons to teach your kids before they reach the age where they know everything. I think that now happens around 13 years-old. (@My Supercharged Life)
Index Fund Investing Overview. If you are looking for a place to invest with high diversification and relatively low fees (for broader index funds with low turnover), index funds are a great place to start. (@Money Smart Life)
5 Reasons To Line Dry Your Laundry. My wife and I may soon be installing a clothesline in our backyard. In many neighborhoods they are frowned upon - one of the reasons I don’t like living in a neighborhood. I digress. One of our neighbors recently put up a clothesline, and we might just follow his lead. (@Simple Mom)
A Few Others I Enjoyed
* 4 Quick Tips for Getting Out of a Rut * Young and Cash Rich * Embracing Simple Style * First Trading Experience With OptionsHouse * The Exponential Power of Delayed Consumption * How Much Emergency Fund is Enough? * 50 Questions that Will Free Your Mind * Save Money On Car Insurance
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Western Milling LLC Voluntarily Recalls Universal Turkey and Kruse G.B. Turkey Grower Feeds Because of Possible Health Risk to Animals
Fri, 22 Oct 2010 13:32:00 -0500
Western Milling, LLC announced a voluntary recall of certain types of store brand noncommercial turkey feed after the company learned that the feed may contain monensin, a medication included in medicated turkey feed. The turkey feed subject to this voluntary recall was not labeled as medicated and was not formulated to contain monensin.
Thanks for the updates Ruth, I’m finally home. It’s no wonder those plants are contaminated as 1/3 of Texas is now mexico. It’s disgusting - I was in JC Penney and over the loud speaker the announcements come in spanish - I left, won’t buy anything from them ever.
Making It All Work – Getting Control: Clarifying
Posted: 22 Oct 2010 07:00 AM PDT
This is the sixth entry in a twenty part series discussing the wonderful time and priority management book Making It All Work by David Allen. New entries in this series will appear on Tuesday mornings and Friday mornings through December 10.
making it all workEarlier this week, we talked about the idea of “capturing” – getting everything that’s taking up space in your head out of your head and into some sort of external form where you can manage them.
That kind of “capturing” is actually a pretty tall order. When you walk through all of the stuff in your life that can be captured and collect it all in one place, you’re going to have a mountain of stuff in front of you.
What’s next? You’ve got to deal with that mountain. You have to put some sort of order on that mountain of stuff so that you can actually use it effectively, because without some order, you’ll never succeed.
Some of that stuff are things that need to be immediately dealt with. Some of that stuff refers to larger-scale projects. Some of that stuff refers to life goals. Some of that stuff might never be dealt with at all.
The Organizer as Therapist
In our natural course of life, things we want to do but don’t have the resources (time, money, energy) to accomplish right now build up. It builds up in our mind, on our desk, and in our lives. Allen talks about this a bit on page 105:
In recent years the whole arena of “personal organizing” has experienced quite a heyday. One article in the U.S. national press focused on the phenomenon of the “organizer as therapist,” citing anecdotal evidence of how people had begun to express their vulnerabilities and core life issues when confronted with how to deal with the things that they had accumulated around them. [...] There is a logical explanation for this phenomenon. Usually things remain disorganized when people don’t confront their meaning. To actually decide what you’re going to do with or about something demands that you deal with how you relate to its context, your agreements about it, and how it fits into the rest of your world.
This really hits on a big fundamental truth I’ve found about getting my stuff out of my head and organized. It’s very, very therapeutic. It simply feels good to get all of it out of my head. It also feels good to go through all of it, make some sort of order out of it, and make some calls about what’s actually important and what isn’t.
It moves you from a sense that your life isn’t moving forward very much to a sense that your life is moving forward in a lot of dimensions. That’s transformative. It fills you with hope and energy and a sense of accomplishment and it lets you feel in touch with areas of your life that you’ve felt out of touch with.
Dealing With “Stuff”
During the “collection” discussed last time, we collected everything in our minds, our homes, and our workplace that needed to be addressed. That ends up being a big pile of “stuff.” In allen’s words (page 107):
Basically, “stuff” is everything in the giant in-basket of your work and live, only a tiny fraction of which most people have actually funneled into their working capture lists or trays. Most is floating around the house, office, and psyche, still uncollected, much less clarified.
That stuff “floating around the house, office, and psyche” is a constant drain on you. It reduces your focus. It reduces your positive mental energy. It distracts you, often at inopportune moments. Often, these undone things come back and bite you when you least expect it.
That negative weight is dealt with when you collect all of that stuff and deal with it in a productive way.
Is It Actionable?
This is really the fundamental question you need to ask yourself about every single item in your giant stack of “stuff.” From page 112:
There are two possible answers here – “yes” and “no.” “Maybe” is actually “no, but the item might require action later,” with the assumption that you are clarifying meaning at this moment in time to you.
Go through everything in that giant collected pile and sort it into three groups: stuff you can take action on right now, stuff that doesn’t need an action (they probably need filed or thrown away, then), and stuff you’ll take action on later (probably a calendar entry and possibly a file). Anything that takes less than five minutes that you can take action on now should be done immediately.
Just doing this will take a long time, but it’ll blow through a ton of your inbox and leave you feeling like a productive world beater.
The Fundamental Process
Of course, you’re then left with a big pile of larger actionable stuff (both now and later). To these things, you must apply two fundamental questions (from page 114:
* What’s my desired outcome? What am I committed to accomplishing or finishing about this?
+ What’s the next action? What’s the next thing I need to do to move toward that goal?
What you’re doing is two distinct things.
First, you’re taking that item, whatever that is, and transforming that into a specific goal. Many things are ready-made goals, like “get a birdhouse” or “clean the pool.” Other things are far more nebulous, like “Lisa” (one of my recent notes). What does “Lisa” even mean? What am I wanting to accomplish there? You’ve got to clarify it into a goal – something specific that you want to accomplish that’s very clear in terms of knowing that you’ve achieved it.
The next part is figuring out what the first or next step is for that goal. What can you do right now to move forward with that goal? Maybe it’s something you can do all at once. Maybe it’s something very big that needs further reflection.
What I usually end up with after doing this (and I do it pretty often) is a big list of goals and projects, each of which is ready to produce a series of action steps until I’ve reached that goal.
Success Comes Back to Action
The key to all of this is to clarify what actions you need to be taking right now to deal with all of the stuff going on in your life. On page 119:
As all roads lead to Rome, all success comes back to action. It is the final of the five stages of gaining control, and the ultimate expression of all six horizons of maintaining perspective. If you simply took every item that has your attention, on any level, and forced yourself to determine the very next step to be taken on each of them, moving it toward some closure, you would be amazed at the clarity you would achieve.
This really is about getting stuff done – simply taking care of all of the open things in your life. Doing so really, really makes a difference.
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Tobacco that heals
Meeting a major unmet medical need, Israel’s CollPlant uses tobacco plants to produce collagen that can be safely used by surgeons for tissue repair
(By John Bernard)
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Tobacco plants could be used to produce genetically-engineered human collagen
In a greenhouse in northern Israel, a company is growing tobacco plants yielding a surprising product that is vastly different from cigarettes. These plants produce genetically-engineered human collagen, a protein vital for tissue repair that is used by surgeons to fill bone voids in cancer patients, fix heart valves and heal severe wounds.
The genetic engineering technology that allows the tobacco plants to generate the collagen was developed by CollPlant (http://www.collplant.com/), based in Rehovot in central Israel.
This novel use of the tobacco plant answers a major unmet medical need.
A scientific achievement with commercial potential
“Collagen is used in about a thousand important medical products, but until now manufacturers have had to derive it from pigs, cows or human corpses,” says CollPlant CEO Yehiel Tal, noting that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and other international health regulatory agencies have expressed serious safety concerns with respect to the use of both animal and human corpse tissues.
CollPlant’s plant-derived collagen poses no safety risks and can be considered a green technology, eliminating the industrial waste and ecological damage associated with the raising of livestock. In addition, the company is providing tobacco farmers with a healthier and more lucrative use for their crops.
“The leaves of a single tobacco plant can yield about 100 grams of tobacco (for cigarettes) or about a gram of genetically-engineered human collagen,” says Prof. Oded Shoseyov, CollPlant’s co-founder and the inventor of the technology. “And from a single gram of collagen it is possible to produce, for example, about three injections of highly-valuable wound healing gel for patients suffering from diabetic ulcers.”
In developing CollPlant’s innovative technology, Shoseyov had to overcome a formidable scientific challenge. “Most proteins in the body are the result of a single gene but there are five different genes responsible for the production of collagen.”
Shoseyov’s success in transferring all five genes into a transgenic plant that could produce collagen was acknowledged earlier this year when he was awarded the prestigious Hebrew University Kaye Innovation Award for “scientific excellence with commercial potential.”
Good news from the FDA
CollPlant is well on the way to leveraging the commercial potential of Shoseyov’s invention. The company has begun to market collagen as a raw material to Japanese manufacturers and in August received good news from the FDA about its first product.
“The FDA informed us that they have agreed to classify our Vergenix wound dressing as a medical device, rather than as a drug or biologic product,” says Tal. “This is a breakthrough because the medical device regulatory review process is much simpler and quicker than that used for products defined as drugs or biologics.”
Vergenix is just the first of several regenerative tissue products in the CollPlant pipeline that target the multi-billion dollar wound management market. These products include gel formulations for deep-tunneled wounds associated with diabetic ulcers, as well as wound dressings for acute and chronic wounds.
Other CollPlant products will attempt to meet the growing demand for collagen-based orthopedic products. In the US alone, each year there are about 800,000 ligament and tendon repair procedures, 400,000 shoulder operations and more than 500,000 bone graft procedures, all of which require collagen.
CollPlant has received strong support from leading investors since its inception. Investment funds headed by two prominent healthcare industrialists, former Teva Pharmaceuticals CEO Eli Hurvitz and Perrigo founder Mory Arkin, were among the founding investors. Earlier this year the company began to trade publicly on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange
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Help for finding and carving pumpkins
Pumpkin carving is a Halloween staple. Most people stick with the traditional grinning face and triangle eyes. That’s a quick and easy way to carve a pumpkin.
But some people like to get more elaborate. I’m talking about realistic portraits and full tableaus. The possibilities are nearly endless.
Today I’m giving you two Cool Sites for the price of one! The first shows you the locations of pumpkin patches in your area. You could just go to the store, but where’s the fun in that? Besides, your kids will love a trip to a pumpkin patch.
The second Cool Site is a collection of amazing pumpkin carvings. It should give you a lot of great ideas for your pumpkin. Scroll down the page for tutorials. There are also links to other pumpkin-carving resources.
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Hyland’s Teething Tablets: Recall - Risk of Harm to Children
AUDIENCE: Consumers, Pediatrics
ISSUE: FDA notified consumers that Hyland’s Teething Tablets is being recalled because the tablets may pose a risk to children. The tablets are manufactured to contain a small amount of belladonna, a substance that can cause serious harm at larger doses. For such a product, it is important that the amount of belladonna be carefully controlled. FDA laboratory analysis has found that Hyland’s Teething Tablets contain inconsistent amounts of belladonna.
FDA has received reports of serious adverse events in children taking this product that are consistent with belladonna toxicity. The FDA has also received reports of children who consumed more tablets than recommended, because the containers do not have child resistant caps.
BACKGROUND: Hyland’s Teething Tablets is a homeopathic product, intended to provide temporary relief of teething symptoms in children. It is sold over-the-counter (OTC) in retail outlets. The FDA has not evaluated Hyland’s Teething Tablets for safety or efficacy, and is not aware of any proven clinical benefit offered by the product.
RECOMMENDATION: FDA recommends that consumers not use this product and dispose of any in their possession. FDA advises consumers to consult their health care professional if their child experiences symptoms such as seizures, difficulty breathing, lethargy, excessive sleepiness, muscle weakness, skin flushing, constipation, difficulty urinating, or agitation after using Hyland’s Teething Tablets.
Healthcare professionals and patients are encouraged to report adverse events or side effects related to the use of this product to the FDA’s MedWatch Safety Information and Adverse Event Reporting Program:
* Complete and submit the report Online: www.fda.gov/MedWatch/report.htm
* Download form or call 1-800-332-1088 to request a reporting form, then complete and return to the address on the pre-addressed form, or submit by fax to 1-800-FDA-0178
Read the MedWatch safety alert, including a link to the FDA News Release, at:
Fall Fest: Sour Cream Pear Cake with Pecan Streusel
# Oct 20th, 2010 Adventures in Baking Desserts
# Fall Fest 2010
# Holiday
Sour Cream Pear Cake with Pecan Streusel
Welcome back to Fall Fest! I missed pumpkin party last week, but I really think this simple and delicious pear cake will make up for it. This rich and spicy cake is filled with fresh pear chunks and topped with a buttery, crunchy pecan streusel.
Sour Cream Pear Cake in pan
The cake is really simple to put together – no fancy tools required! It makes a great mid-morning snack with coffee but can easily be dressed up with caramel sauce and whipped cream and turned into an elegant dessert.
Sour Cream Pear Cake cooling
How do you like to celebrate pear season? Please feel free to leave a comment describing your favorite way to use pears and/or leave links to your favorite recipes. And don’t forget to check out what the rest of the Fall Fest group has been up to this week (scroll to bottom of post for Fall Fest links).
Sour Cream Pear Cake with Pecan Streusel
Pecan Streusel:
1/4 cup all-purpose flour
1/4 cup firmly packed brown sugar
2 tablespoons butter, melted
3/4 cup pecans, coarsely chopped
Cake:
1 cup flour
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon ground ginger
1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1/4 teaspoon ground cloves
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 egg
1/4 cup oil
1/2 cup sour cream
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2/3 cup sugar
1 medium pear, peeled, cored, and chopped
1. Mix all streusel ingredients in a small bowl until well combined and crumbly. Set aside.
2. In a large bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder, baking soda, spices, and salt; set aside. In a medium bowl, whisk together egg, oil, sour cream, vanilla extract, and sugar. Pour egg mixture into the flour mixture and mix with a large spoon until batter is smooth.
3. Pour batter into a greased 8-inch round cake pan. Sprinkle pear chunks evenly over the cake batter then sprinkle the pecan streusel evenly over the top of the batter and pears. Bake in a preheated 375 degree oven for 35-40 minutes. Let cool in pan for 10-15 minutes then carefully remove to a wire rack to cool completely. Serves 8.
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And whether you have access to fresh pomegranate arils or not, I suggest you make these pancakes. This morning was the first time I made them, but I think they will start making a regular appearance on my weekend breakfast plate! They are adapted from Mark Bittman’s Light and Fluffy Pancakes in the book How to Cook Everything Vegetarian. I enjoyed them with nothing but butter, a light dusting of powdered sugar, and a handful of pomegranate arils. Don’t forget the bacon!
Light and Fluffy Lemon Pancakes
adapted from How To Cook Everything Vegetarian by Mark Bittman
1 cup all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/8 teaspoon salt
4 eggs, separated
1 cup buttermilk, at room temperature
2 teaspoons honey (or 1 tablespoon sugar)*
zest of one lemon
2 tablespoons lemon juice
In a mixing bowl, whisk together the flour, baking soda, and salt; set aside. In a separate bowl, whisk together the egg yolks, buttermilk, honey, lemon juice, and lemon zest; set that aside, too. In yet another bowl, whisk the egg whites (by hand or using an electric mixer) until medium to stiff peaks form. Pour the buttermilk mixture into the flour mixture and stir until well combined then very gently fold the beaten egg whites into the batter until mostly incorporated but some fluffs of egg white are still visible.
Heat a griddle or pan to medium. Just before pouring the batter, brush the griddle with melted butter. Drop batter into pancakes of the size you prefer (I like mine 3 -4 inches across) and cook until the edges of the pancakes start to look dry. Carefully flip and cook until the other side is golden brown. Serve with butter and powdered sugar and/or syrup of your choice.
*It’s important that your liquid ingredients are at room temperature before whisking in the honey or it will seize and not incorporate. You may substitute one tablespoon sugar for the honey if you don’t want to worry about using room temperature ingredients, but I thought the honey was a nice touch.
Related Recipes:
* Blueberry Orange Cornmeal Pancakes
* Whole Grain Sour Cream Blueberry Pancakes
* Whole Wheat Pumpkin Pancakes
Fabulous Fruit Leather (Even if You Dry it Too Long)
Posted: 20 Oct 2010 07:55 AM PDT
Fruit leather is one of those dehydrating projects that may look a bit intimidating, but actually isn’t too hard to do. You’ll see. Even you can make fabulous fruit leather. Your kids will love it and it makes a great trail, camp, or lunchbox snack. So let’s get started, shall we?
First you’ll need some fruit. Really, about any fruit will do. Okay, probably not citrus or melons, but about anything else. It can be fresh fruit or frozen, just make sure to thaw and drain some (maybe all) of the liquid off the frozen fruits.
Prepare your fruit as you would for any other canning or freezing experience—wash, peel if necessary, and pit if necessary. Then get your fruit in your blender or food processor. This fruit doesn’t have to be nice and perfect. A lot of times I save the reject fruit when I’m canning and use it for fruit leather. I did two batches this time—one straight peach and the other peach/cherry with some frozen cherries I had from last year.
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Mix and Match Sugar Sensations
Posted by: “Kittyhawk”
Mix and Match Sugar Sensations [Cookies]
1 1/2 cups butter, softened
2 cups sugar
4 eggs
1 tsp vanilla extract
5 cups all purpose flour
2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp salt
Ingredients for variations
In a large bowl, cream together the butter and sugar until smooth. Beat in the eggs and vanilla. Stir in the flour, baking powder and salt. Cover and chill the dough for at least one hour (or overnight).
Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F. Prepare the cookies as indicated in the variation you’re making. Place the cookies 1 inch apart on ungreased cookie sheets. Bake 8 to 10 minutes or as directed. Cool completely.
Makes about 5 dozen.
Ginger Fig Cookies
On a lightly floured surface, roll the dough to 1-inch thickness. Cut into squares with a knife. Make an indention in the center of the cookie and fill with Stonewall Kitchen Fig & Ginger Jam or other fig jam. Bake for 10 to 12 minutes.
Cranberry Lime Cookies
Add 1 tablespoon finely grated lime rind to dough. Form balls and roll each in 2 cups of chopped, dried cranberries before baking. Bake for 10 to 12 minutes.
Spice Kids
Open a tea bag of spiced chai tea and add 1 teaspoon of the loose tea and 1 teaspoon of pumpkin pie spice to flour. Prepare recipe as directed. Roll dough out on a floured surface to 1/2-inch thickness. Using small gingerbread- man and -woman cutters, cut the spice kids cookies into shapes. Bake for 10 to 12 minutes.
Orange Clove Cookies
Add 1 tablespoon fresh grated orange rind and 1/2 teaspoon cloves to dough. Form into balls and bake for 10 to 12 minutes.
Cherry Pistachio Cookies
Roll out dough on floured surface to 1/2 inch thick. Cut into small circles. In a small bowl, combine 1/2 cup each chopped dried cherries and chopped pistachios. Cover the surface of each cookie, pressing in lightly. Bake for 10 to 12 minutes, or until golden brown.
Pecan Pineapple Cookies
Add 1 cup chopped pecans and 1/2 cup diced dried pineapple to the dough. Roll into balls and bake for 10 to 12 minutes.
Crystallized Ginger Cookies
Add 1 teaspoon powdered ginger and 1/2 cup chopped crystallized ginger to dough. Roll into balls and bake for 10 to 12 minutes.
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S’Mores (Bars)-—w/ Marshmallow Topping-—(TNT)
Posted by: “Russie
S’MORES BARS
(Brownie bars covered with gooey marshmallow and mini Kisses and broken up graham crackers, so yummy and easy to make). ENJOY!
CRUST:
14 whole graham crackers boards, crushed
3 tbs sugar
6 tbs unsalted butter, melted
1/4 tsp salt
BROWNIE:
6 oz bittersweet chocolate, chopped
3 eggs
3/4 cup unsalted butter
1 cup flour
1 1/4 cups sugar
1 tsp salt
2 tsp vanilla
TOPPING:
7.5 oz jar marshmallow cream
1 cup mini chocolate Kisses
2 tbs milk
3 whole graham cracker boards, broken up
Heat oven to 350 degrees. CRUST-—In a bowl, combine cracker crumbs, sugar, salt and butter until moistened. Transfer the crumb mixture to a 13x9x2” baking pan, press crumb mixture over the bottom and up sides of pan. Refrigerate until set.
BROWNIE-—Combine chocolate and butter in a microwave bowl. Microwave chocolate mixture 1 min. Stir until smooth. In a bowl, beat together eggs and sugar until blended. Add the chocolate mixture, beat until smooth. Stir the flour and salt into the egg mixture, stir in the vanilla until smooth. Scrape brownie mixture into the baking pan. Bake 30 min. or until done.
TOPPING-—Whisk together the marshmallow cream and the milk until smooth. Pour the marshmallow mixture over the brownie, covering the brownie layer completely. Sprinkle the Kisses over marshmallow, then scatter the broken crackers over the top. Bake 3 min. or until the Kisses are glossy and the marshmallow is set. Let cool completely in the pan. Cut into 24 bars, then serve.
MAKES 24 S’MORES BARS...
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5. Pulled Pork (Sandwiches)-—w/ Sauce & Slaw
Posted by: “Russie
PULLED PORK SANDWICHES
PORK SANDWICHES:
1/2 cup spicy brown mustard
Salt and Pepper
1/4 cup honey (Splenda)
1 tbs paprika
3 cloves garlic, minced
9 pound bone in pork shoulder, skin removed
10 crusty rolls, split (wheat or white rolls)
Coleslaw
BARBECUE SAUCE:
2 tsp apple cider vinegar
1 cup ketchup
2 tsp hot chili sauce
1/2 cup light brown sugar (Splenda brown sugar)
1 cup apricot preserves (sugar free preserves)
8 cloves garlic, minced
1 tsp paprika
Salt and Pepper
2 tbs oil
4 onions, chopped
2 tbs unsalted butter
PORK-—Combine mustard, honey, 1 tsp salt, 1 tbs pepper, paprika and garlic in a bowl. Prick the pork on all sides. Brush all over with mustard mixture. Tightly wrap with plastic wrap and refrigerate 6 hours. Unwrap the pork, place in a roasting pan and bring to room temp. Heat oven to 250 degrees.
(2.) Transfer the pork to the oven and pour 1” hot water into the pan. Cook 3 hours, adding water as needed. Remove the pan from the oven, add water if needed and cover tightly with foil. Return to the oven and cook 6 more hours. Turn off the oven and let the pork rest inside, 1 hour.
SAUCE-—Melt butter with the oil in a skillet. Add the onions, season with salt and pepper and cook until tender, 8 min. Add the garlic and paprika and cook 3 more min. Reduce the heat if the garlic starts to brown. Stir in the preserves, brown sugar, ketchup and chili sauce, stirring after each addition. Bring to a simmer, then stir in the vinegar. Add salt to taste.
(3.) Remove the pork from the oven and take the meat off the bone. Coarsely shred the meat. Toss with some of the barbecue sauce and pan juices and season with salt and pepper. Serve on rolls with coleslaw.
MAKES 10 SANDWICHES...
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6. Horseradish Crusted (Brisket) Beef-—w/ Carrots
Posted by: “Russie
HORSERADISH CRUSTED BRISKET WITH CARROTS
BRISKET:
6 pounds beef brisket
Salt and Pepper
4 tbs flour
2 tbs oil
5 onions, cut into thin wedges
8 cloves garlic, smashed
3/4 cup tomato paste
3 cups red wine (you could use beef broth instead of the wine)
1 tsp sugar (Splenda)
4 leafy stalks celery
2 sprigs rosemary
2 bay leaves
1 pound carrots, halved crosswise
CRUST:
1 clove garlic, smashed
Salt
6 oz piece horseradish, peeled
1/2 cup roughly chopped parsley
3 tbs Dijon mustard
BRISKET-—Heat oven to 350 degrees. Season the brisket with salt and pepper, then coat with flour in a bowl. Heat the oil in a pot or Dutch oven. Brown the brisket on all sides. Transfer the meat to a plate. Add the onions and 2 tsp salt to the pot and cook until soft. Add the garlic and cook until the onions are caramelized. Add the tomato paste and cook 5 more min. Add the wine and 1 cup water, scraping up the browned bits. Stir in sugar. Reduce the heat, simmer.
(2.) Tie the celery, rosemary and bay leaves together with twine and add to the pot along with the brisket and carrots. Cover with a lid. Transfer to the oven and cook 3 hours 30 min.
CRUST-—Mash the garlic with 1 tsp salt. Coarsely grate the horseradish. Chop the parsley with the horseradish and garlic paste until the mixture is moist.
(3.) Remove the pot from the oven, transfer the meat to a rimmed baking sheet. Increase oven temp to 375 degrees. Brush the top of the brisket with the mustard, then pat with the horseradish mixture. Return the meat to the pot and bake, uncovered, 35 min. or until the crust is golden.
(4.) Transfer the brisket to a cutting board. Discard the celery herb bundle and skim the fat from the braising liquid. Slice the meat against the grain. Serve with the carrots, onions and braising liquid.
MAKES 6 SERVINGS OF BRISKET...
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Frankincense, also known as Olibanum
The fragrance is warm, calming, balsamic, with a hint of camphor. It is
often used in meditation and ceremonies and improves with age.
Good for nervous tension, and stress relief.
Relaxing in a massage with Lavender as it helps to regulate and deepen
respiration. Helpful for all respiratory disorders.
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Sen. Brown Announces More Than $740K for Urban Farming and Beginning Farmer Training
in Cuyahoga County
WASHINGTON D.C. - U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) today announced that $740,096 has
been awarded to The Ohio State University Extension in Cuyahoga County to provide
training and other resources to local farmers. The Farm Bill funds, distributed
by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture,
will help farmers with less than ten years experience develop profitable, sustainable
farms.
1910 - “City Farming - Tells of Sixteen Years’ Experience with a Small Plot”
According to his definition, I am a farmer, as I own and occupy a piece of ground,
roughly speaking, 50 feet by 110 feet, located toward the northern part of the Bronx,
but well within the boundaries of the Twenty-fourth Ward. I farm a piece about 25
feet by 70 feet; the balance of the ground is taken up by the house and a green
- not lawn.
Can farmers extend their cultivation areas in urban agriculture?
A contribution
from agronomic analysis of market gardening systems around Mahajanga (Madagascar)
The rapid urbanization in developing countries implies an increasing pressure on
urban agriculture for production. As most perishable food products come from this
agriculture in close proximity to population concentrations, we analysed from an
agronomic point of view how market-garden farmers can meet this increasing urban
demand. This work took place in the case of Mahajanga, a secondary city with high
increasing demographic rate on the Northwest coast of Madagascar. Based on preliminary
surveys to characterize the farming systems (on a sample of 91 farms), 11 market-garden
farmers chosen in the three main agricultural zones of the urban area were surveyed
during two years.
At a reception at the House of Commons - Call for more urban dwellers to be farmers
More people from cities and towns need to be brought into farming, the Government
was told yesterday.
Wilfred Emmanuel-Jones, the Devon-based self-titled Black Farmer, emphasised the
importance of training new entrants to farming and the food supply industries to
MPs in London.
Speaking at a reception at the House of Commons alongside Farming Minister James
Paice, he spoke about the need to bring in new entrants from urban backgrounds.
Reuters and BBC report: Tokyo office workers turn into rice farmers
A marble-floored hall with some potted plants in a corner is what you normally see
in Tokyo’s office lobbies, but one now instead offers visitors a panoramic green
and seasonal yellow view - of a paddy field.
On Thursday (September 9) some 40 women and 20 men in suit jumped into the golden
bush in Otemachi, Tokyo’s business heart, with rubber boots on and sickles in their
hands.
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All stories here:
City Farmer News [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=fclqmpbab&et=1103827971064&s=1304&e=001CHjbdv9ousEyqyv9yzycHt8yQiKX4D6-1fyNPN4zA-zs1jKbWC3q19-Bd973Qnn-spvKmnQOg0RjVXyMC7xvscRbKe22kh9iV78ljcRnOqkiqzKY28oDGQ==]
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Michael Levenston
City Farmer - Canada’s Office of Urban Agriculture
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Thought for the Day
When you aim for perfection you discover it is a moving target.
NancyLand Online Recipes for Sunday
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Pumpkin Recipes
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Halloween Costumes...for Pets!
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Two Halloween Costume Ideas
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Homemade Face Paint
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Cooking Pumpkin
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7-UP Jello Salad
1 pkg. lemon Jello
1 cup hot
water
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1 (8 ounce) cream cheese
1 small can pineapple, crushed
1 (12 ounce) can 7-Up
Dissolve Jello in hot water. Slowly add Jello to cream cheese. Stir
until smooth. Add pineapple and 7-Up. Chill.
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US-CERT Current Activity
Fraud Advisory for Businesses Released: Corporate Account Take Over
Original release date: October 25, 2010 at 12:35 pm
Last revised: October 25, 2010 at 12:35 pm
As part of a joint effort, the United States Secret Service, the
Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Internet Crime Complaint Center
(IC3) and the Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis
Center (FS-ISAC) have released Fraud Advisory for Businesses:
Corporate Account Take Over (PDF). The document explains that cyber
criminals are targeting small- and medium- sized businesses and using
methods such as malicious code, phishing, and social engineering
attacks to compromise business banking accounts. Once these accounts
have been compromised, cyber criminals can fraudulently transfer funds
out of them and can cause significant business disruption and
substantial monetary loss.
This advisory provides information that businesses can use to help
understand, prevent, detect, and respond to the threats of corporate
account take over. US-CERT encourages users and administrators to
review this document and to remain vigilant in combating the threats
of corporate account takeover.
Relevant Url(s):
http://www.ic3.gov/media/2010/CorporateAccountTakeOver.pdf
US-CERT Current Activity
Fraud Advisory for Consumers Released: Involvement in Criminal Activity Through Work from Home Scams
Original release date: October 25, 2010 at 12:35 pm
Last revised: October 25, 2010 at 12:35 pm
As part of a joint effort, the United States Secret Service, the
Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Internet Crime Complaint Center
(IC3) and the Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis
Center (FS-ISAC) have released Fraud Advisory for Consumers:
Involvement in Criminal Activity through Work from Home Scams (PDF).
The document explains that criminal syndicates are using newspaper
ads, online employment services, and unsolicited emails to recruit
consumers to launder stolen money. Individuals who are knowing or
unknowing participants in this type of scheme could be prosecuted and
may have their own identities or bank accounts stolen.
This advisory provides information that consumers can use to help
understand and protect themselves against work from home scams.
US-CERT encourages users and administrators to review this document to
help protect themselves against work from home scams.
Relevant Url(s):
http://www.ic3.gov/media/2010/WorkAtHome.pdf
Rose, a mid to base note in perfumery is affiliated with the astrological
sign Venus. Best known for its antidepressant effects and helpful for
depression,insomnia ,migraine headaches, nervous tension, stress, sorrow, and
disappointments. Rose is said to increase happiness and well being and give
psychic protection.
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New for students,
I’ve created a set of coloring character masks for my new book, THE 3
LITTLE DASSIES. You can download them and color them, then use them
together with the Readers Theater Play to put on your own performance of
THE 3 LITTLE DASSIES.
Character Masks
http://www.janbrett.com/3_little_dassies_masks_coloring_pages.htm
Readers Theater Play
http://janbrett.com/3_little_dassies_reader_theater.htm
Happy Halloween ~
Halloween Party Placemats
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Happy Halloween Bookmarks ~
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Halloween Email Postcards ~
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Hedgie Carves a Pumpkin Coloring Page ~
http://janbrett.com/hedgie_carves_a_pumpkin_coloring_page.htm
Hedgie’s Costumes Coloring Page
http://janbrett.com/hedgie_costume_coloring_page.htm
Hedgie as a Pirate Coloring Page ~
http://janbrett.com/hedgie_as_a_pirate.htm
Sincerely,
Jan Brett
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