Posted on 06/07/2010 4:24:34 AM PDT by reaganrevolutionin2010
"US First Lady Michelle Obama delivers remarks on the South Lawn of the White House June 4, 2010 in Washington, DC to over 1,000 chefs from across the US recruited to join her anti-obesity campaign and help schools serve healthier, tastier meals."
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Michelle Obama squats among the arugula and peas.
Rhubarb is delicious in a pie or cobbler.
OMG! The one with Hillary dancing is hilarious!!
Why?
I can’t take credit for making any of those, just keeping the funny ones demonstative ones as i go along.
Back in the early 90’s there was a movement in this area to get rid of sludge and it was touted as the ‘best thing since sliced bread,’ in the areas of fertilizer. Now, it IS great for growing crops, but the problem would be that the industrial sludge leaves heavy metals in the soil that don’t go away, or at least don’t go away in 20 years.
Nothing grown on the White House lawn is edible, unless you are okay with lead, arsenic, cadmium, etc. Now the roses love this stuff as does the greenery - but those aren’t edible.
So, any photo op shown with kids eating veggies from the White House lawn are fake. Remember when that famous chef came to cook at the White House - Chef Vitalie? (Not sure of the name), all the veggies he used were trucked in because of the contamination of the lawn. So the photo op had him using “Vegetables like those grown at the White House.”
What a shock to find out this administration is fake huh?
Does anyone know what that feathery stuff is? It looks like fennel to me, but then I’m not the most garden-y of people.
Shocked, shocked!
Okay, FReeper ladies, who else dresses like that to work in their gardens? I sure as heck know I don’t! Then again, I don’t have paid slaves...I mean, servants, to do the gardening for me. We also have stuff in our garden that our kids like to eat, like tomatoes, cucumbers, melons, strawberries, and jalapenos (yes, I have a kid who loves jalapenos). The stuff in the W.H. garden would have my kids running, LOL.
These pictures just killed my appetite for lunch :(
Well, today I was wearing olive-drab shorts and a pink “Coast Guard Mom” t-shirt. Sometimes I do the gardening in a skirt and blouse, but that’s hard on my skirts, especially when I’m using a mattock. (And if you can’t see your feet, you could lose one!)
Fennel, I believe, but it looks as though the bulb may not be completely mature.
I was weeding today in jeans and a pale aqua polo shirt. We’ve had so much rain lately, I can’t keep up with the weeds.
Same here. I pull up grass every time I go outside.
I was just thinking I would have to water today, when *boom* a monster thunderstorm hit us about 10 last night. We dug out two lugustrum today. I feel so good; I hate those things. Next spring, we'll put a native flowering shrub in the spot. Only six more to go ...
And when did anyone ever see a chef, complete with his chef's hat...cooking in a school? That audience has nothing to do with school menus, another sham.
We have such a dumb-down group in the media who are either too stupid or too afraid of pointing out the obvious truths. The Obama administration - and Barack's and Michelle's photo ops are insight into how shallow and out of touch with reality this couple really is. So far neither of them has done anything worthwhile, or has an intelligent personal pursuit or worthwhile idea for our country
I have made a recipe with fennel bulbs *one time* in my life. I think it was a stir-fry of some sort. I’ve never cooked with rhubarb, although I dutifully ate it when my grandmother served it.
We've been having at least one thunderstorm a day, it seems. It's like August rather than early June.
We have fennel often in the winter. It tastes delicious when coated with olive oil and baked in the oven.
Someone needs powdering.
Who the fleck gardens wearing sheet like that?
Planted by the builder. They like it because it’s cheap and hardy. However, we subscribe to “Carolina Gardener” and try to use native plants, when we can.
Of course, some of the native plants will eat your house if you let them, just like lugustrum will.
The deer have been such a problem. I know they won't eat the grasses, but they love the arborvitae.
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