Home and Garden

Room Still Available in Food Preservation Workshops

Posted on June 21, 2010 - 10:55am

Room is still available for you to learn proper methods to preserve home-grown produce for the highest quality and safety. Hands-on techniques for filling jars, labeling, and freezing. Using the latest research and solutions to common canning and freezing problems, the University of Missouri Extension is offering a series of food preservation workshops: Please note ! We have added two new workshops!

Garden Tour Enjoys Sunny Weather

Posted on June 8, 2010 - 8:48pm
The Garden Club used the Garden Tour, which also had a plant sale section, as a fundraiser for both club activities and to pay for a high school scholarship the club sponsors.

By Anna Wiegenstein

Both Saturday and Sunday were filled with clear skies and warm temperatures, making the scheduled Garden Tour a natural and enjoyable activity for the weekend.

Sponsored by the Hermann Garden Club, the tour had 14 "stops" involved, spanning from Hermann Hill Village through to W. 18th street. Equally wide-ranging were the types of gardens included: Tin Mill Brewery discussed the plant life associated with beer making, the Deutschheim Historical Site displayed traditional herbs, along with numerous yards filled with flowers in bloom.

Program Offers Budget Savvy Gardeners Free Trees and Plants

Posted on June 5, 2010 - 11:20am

There is such a thing as a free bunch - of flowers, trees and shrubs - thanks to a one-of-a-kind program that benefits gardeners, sheltered workshops and the environment.

Free Trees and Plants.com, started in February, 2004, obtains from growers and nurseries some of the millions of unsold plants that are destroyed each year, hires workers with disabilities to package them and then sends the plants for free to anyone who orders them at www.freetreesandplants.com. Consumers simply pay for processing and shipping costs, $7.95 for each unit of plants.

Annie's Mailbox®

Posted on May 28, 2010 - 6:41am

 

When Facebook Friends Aren't Friends at All

by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar
 

Dear Annie: My daughter is 13 years old. She has a 12-year-old friend, "Tasha," who is often left home alone, sometimes watching a younger sibling, while her mother works a second-shift job. Mom doesn't get home until 1:00 a.m.

Clarence Meyer, Farmer’s Farmer

Posted on May 24, 2010 - 9:57am
Clarence Meyer, 88, of New Haven feels fortunate to still be alive and healthy. He and his wife, Peggy, still live in their own home and can often be seen out and about in restaurants, at the library, at the Senior Center, etc.

By Glen Blesi

Clarence Meyer, 88, of New Haven feels fortunate to still be alive and healthy. He and his wife, Peggy, still live in their own home and can often be seen out and about in restaurants, at the library, at the Senior Center, etc.

Cooks' Books: Mad Scientist or Gourmet Chef? You Deliciously Decide

Posted on May 13, 2010 - 6:38am

by Lisa Messinger

 

"Good Eats: The Early Years" by Alton Brown (Stewart, Tabori & Chang, $37.50)

You might think it strange to ponder preparing Alton Brown's gourmet recipe for a cranberry glazed panna cotta "brain" (based on the Italian "cooked cream" eggless custard), but that would probably be before you saw the photograph in "Good Eats: The Early Years" of him dumping a bucket of eyeballs suspended in gelatin onto a serving platter for the same party.

NH Farmers’ Market Has a Lot to Offer

Posted on May 9, 2010 - 10:14pm
The New Haven Farmers’ Market opened for the season Thursday evening May 6 and has a lot to offer visitors, including music, crafts, food, plants, produce, good conversation and plenty more.

By Sue Blesi
 
The New Haven Farmers’ Market opened for the season Thursday evening May 6 and has a lot to offer visitors, including music, crafts, food, plants, produce, good
conversation and plenty more. It will be open from 4 to 6:30 p.m. throughout the
growing season.
 
There are rules for vendors. This is not a flea market. Everything offered for sale
is homemade or homegrown. If you have not paid a visit yet, you are missing out.
 
Among the offerings were homemade candy, homemade bread, aroma therapy products,

Mothers, Grandmothers And A Wife

Posted on May 9, 2010 - 10:58am
Mother's Day. Designated by Congress in 1914 as the second Sunday in May, it is celebrated every year by millions of people across the country, in many different ways. Some celebrate by having family get togethers while others may send flowers or a card to the mother in their life.

Mother's Day. Designated by Congress in 1914 as the second Sunday in
May, it is celebrated every year by millions of people across the
country, in many different ways. Some celebrate by having family get
togethers while others may send flowers or a card to the mother in
their life. But just as different as the ways Mother's Day is
celebrated is the meaning the day has to every person.

Cooks' Books: Don't Alter with Traditions, But Add New, Wise Ones, Too

Posted on May 6, 2010 - 6:28am

by Lisa Messinger - Cooks' Books

 

"Giada at Home: Family Recipes from Italy and California" by Giada De Laurentiis (Clarkson Potter, $35)

If fans of Food Network star Giada De Laurentiis had a chance to spend time with her at home, they might not even notice if tap water was the only fare on hand. Like her colleague super star Rachael Ray, De Laurentiis is even more popular for her bubbly personality, huge smile, twinkling eyes and flowing tresses than she is for her accomplished cooking.

Cooks' Books: Hot Career Advice for Those Who Want to Get Cookin'

Posted on April 29, 2010 - 10:30am

by Lisa Messinger - Cooks' Books

 

"Culinary Careers: How to Get Your Dream Job in Food with Advice from Top Culinary Professionals" by Rick Smilow and Anne E. McBride (Clarkson Potter, $16.99)

I got one of my first dream jobs in food when a longtime newspaper food editor — who could cook better than write — retired. Managing editors decided that the young health and nutrition editor — who could at that time write better than cook and had been trained on their specialized computer systems — should take over.

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