Gardening hose starting to leak? Don't throw it out just yet. Cut it up into smaller lengths and slice it open to use the hose as a protective barrier for outdoor electrical cords, or as added grip on a metal paint can handle.
A celebration of the sea, this dish features flounder stuffed with fresh crab and roasted vegetables. For this recipe, you will need: 2 ounces butter, 1 chopped shallot, 1/4 cup chopped celery, 1 chopped red bell pepper, 4 ounces crab meat, fresh lemon juice, 4 cups white wine, 2 cloves minced garlic, parsley, 2 flounder fillets, salt and pepper. Make a delicious baked stuffed flounder dish.
Learn how to care for canna plants with Carol Klein's comprehensive video guide covering planting, overwintering, and dealing with viruses such as canna yellow mottle, and bean yellow mosaic.
The order was given months ago: Build me a royal garden.
Garden Apps have just unveiled their new Sprinkler Time mobile app, which shows users the correct number of minutes to set their sprinkler times for maintaining healthy gardens all year round.
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FarmVille has been pushing A LOT of new Japanese Garden Themed items over the past few weeks. I personally love these new decorations and will be purchasing a few of these
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Michelle Gervais shows us how to make easy garden lanterns in this tutorial. First, grab an empty can and fill it with sand up to the top, then fill it with water. Put the can in the freezer and let it sit overnight. Next, grab a leaf template and place it on a piece of white paper, then put parchment paper over the leaf and trace the leaf. Now, grab the can and put it on a cushion and wrap your stencil on the can and secure with tape. Grab a sharp nail and hammer, and hammer the nail around ...
Having chicken again tonight? Well, spice up your dinner with a nutritious side dish of braised collard greens. Collared greens don't have to be a hated dish by your kids, show them it's not all bad and tastes great!
Monty Don demonstrates how to plant out leek plants from plugs to grow smaller, more tender leeks. This gardening how to video lends expert advice on growing your own small & tender leeks. Plant leek plants from plugs to grow more tender leeks.
A pond can add a dramatic, yet tranquil touch to your yard or garden. Your pond can be constructed in many different sizes and shapes, all which can reflect a part of you. Installing a pond may take a little time and effort, but if done right the result will be enjoyed for many years to come. This article will show you in easy steps how to add this water feature to your backyard. Springtime is the best time to install a pond as you can start planting and stocking your pond immediately after y...
All you've got to do is a some simple wiring and a little digging in the garden.
This is a dish with both a rich history and rich flavor, and you'll fall in love with it the first time you make it. For this dish, you will need: 2 pounds Peruvian potatoes, 1/2 cup olive oil, 2 teaspoons aji Amarilla (yellow Peruvian hot pepper paste), juice from 2 1/2 limes, 8 ounces crab meat, 4 tablespoons mayonnaise, 1 tablespoon fresh parsley, botija olives, 1 avocado, 1 hard boiled egg, 8 cherry tomatoes and rocoto hot pepper sauce. Cook the traditional Peruvian causa dish.
Announcement #1:Felix Navidad is back fr another great December season! Come join him to celebrate another yuletide here in Wizard City. To buy items from him, go to the Shopping District near the fountain, where all the season sellers sell their merchandise. Just note these items cost crowns!
If you have a kitchen window that connects directly with the sunlight and love growing plants, this video may be for you. In this helpful tutorial, you'll discover how to remove your old boring windows, for a newer one that also acts as a mini greenhouse. It's perfect for growing plants and herbs. So check this video out and see if it's something you would like to do. Good luck and enjoy! Install a garden greenhouse window in your kitchen.
Have you seen all the adorable miniature garden ideas? Containers of some sort (wood boxes, planters, drawers, wheel barrows, bird baths…) hold a little scene full of tiny living plants along with little adornments like garden benches, hardscapes and paths. They are absolutely enchanting for all ages and how fun to shop the house and find special little things to decorate your tiny garden whether indoors or out. Not only can you plant real, live tiny plants in your garden. Consider little suc...
Beans don't have to be boring! This recipe shows you how to make a delicious side dish using primarily navy beans and white beans. After soaking and cooking the beans, you can add herbs and pancetta and end with this palate pleaser. Make an herbed navy and white bean side dish.
A pilaf is a side dish consisting mostly of rice or grains. This recipe shows you how to make a savory pilaf you can serve with any dinner. Start with a sofrito, and then follow along to make your own delicious pilaf. Make a seven grain pilaf as a side dish.
Chef Madhur Jaffrey demonstrates how to make minty sweet and sour eggplant. Eggplant, prepared with cumin seeds, cayenne pepper and fresh mint leaves, makes an ideal appetizer or side dish. This Middle Eastern dish is best served a side dish. Make minty sweet and sour eggplant.
Finally! Gardening! Many have been waiting for ages for this invention to come true, and now it has! Come experience it for yourselves in the Test Realm (instructions on getting there will be added)! When you enter, go the Moolinda Wu and she will teach you how to start gardening. Easy as that! You can plant many things, and monsters drop seeds, too. You can plant indoors or outdoors. Garden now on the Test Realm!Here's the complete article Professor Moolinda Wu wrote:
A classic of Persian or Iranian cuisine is the simple mirza gashemi. To make this at home, you will need: 2 eggplants, 5 tomatoes, 1/2 cup olive oil, 1 tablespoons of garlic, salt and pepper, turmeric, 2 eggs and chopped fresh parsley. Make the traditional Iranian dish mirza gashemi.
What the hell is turducken? Well, as the amalgam of a name will tell you, it's a delicious dish made from turkey stuffed with duck that's stuffed with a chicken.
A purée is a great side dish for any dinnertime meal, because it's a healthy and creamy substance from fruit or vegetables. In this video recipe, you'll learn a vegetable variety, full of butternut squash.
Tom Cole shows how to harvest spring onions. Using a handfork, Tom harvests the onions in the spring and autumn. Tom's many tips ad tricks show how to get tasty onions out of your garden. Harvest spring onions.
An assimilation of photographs taken at various stages of the construction of the second stage of NeverEnuf, a garden (G scale) layout situated near New Delhi. Stage two was a single track loop around a miniature town which also has a circus. The viaduct and the arch bridge are scratchbuilt. So are some of the structures in the town.
The video documents the building process of a garden railway called NeverEnuf. Stage 1 was built around a hill and has a ropeway, water body and traversable gradients.
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Think you have a stain on your stove or countertop that just won't come off? Think again! This simple trick will have your kitchen surfaces gleaming in no time!
Mojo criollo is a simple garlic sauce which is the staple of many Cuban dishes. This is a very easy dish to make. All you need is: 12 cloves of garlic, 1 teaspoon salt, 1/2 teaspoon black pepper, 1 cup olive oil and 1 cup of naranja agria (bitter orange juice). Make a traditional garlic sauce, or mojo criollo.
Los Angeles isn't all concrete. This beautiful garden is smack in the middle of the city. Perfect for a short getaway from the smog.
In this video, we learn how to paint clay pots for gardening with Michelle Gervais. All you need is: acrylic paints, brushes, plastic paint, cup of water, paper towels, and clay pots. First, put a base coat on your pot before you place your design onto it. This is easiest done with a foam brush, and without using any water. This will dry quickly, but take a lot of paint to fully cover the entire pot. When the paint is dry, you can now start to paint on your design! You can put stripes, flower...
If you're in New York, you absolutely cannot miss this beautiful exhibit at the New York Botanical Gardens. Emily Dickinson, the famed reclusive poet of the 19th century, was a lover of nature, and her garden was recreated in the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory. What can I say, except that it's just stunning...
As someone who suffered the indignities of an Oakland school education, I'm always thrilled to hear about education reforms that take place and are successful. In this video, you'll get to hear about the program that lets Oakland high school students participate in rooftop gardening and learn valuable skills. And recognition of vegetables other than French fries.
" Interested in learning about how to make your own compost for agriculture, horticulture, your garden, or landscaping project? Thanks to the zinelibrary.info there is a 30 page DIY zine from 1980 (by H. H. Koepf, originally printed by the Bio-Dynamic Farming & Gardening Association) that has been preserved, scanned, and put up for FREE download on all things compost: How to make compost, types of compost, a guide to successful composting, equipment needed and more.
People always say there's no green in Los Angeles, but that's not true. You just have to know where to look, and to find those pockets of greenery for yourself. One of the places I've been meaning to go back to is the Los Angeles Botanical Garden. It's full of pretty flowers and trees, and is a lot bigger than you think it is.
These are some great new container gardening kits. I've always had issues with starting stuff from seed, but these make it look easy as pie.
Though this dish doesn't look very pretty, it does pack a lot of flavor in the ground pork and onions. Once you make the dough, the rest of it is as easy as, well, pie. This dish is the perfect comfort food for a cold day or just any day when you need a simple, soothing dish.
Louisa Kasdon has another great Jewish side dish recipe for us. Noodle kugel is a favorite comfort food, especially in cold winters. It's got a little of everything thrown in, and can easily be adapted to individual tastes. In this video, she shows us how to make a version of noodle kugel with sour cream and cream cheese. Mmm...carbs and dairy - sounds like a recipe for yumminess!
