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Posts from April 2014

cooking, gardening, plants

What Is It? Esoteric Edibles 1

Written by db on April 14th, 2014. 13 Comments

Learning about what grows here in south Florida has exposed me to some rather oddball edibles. I want to start to expand on what I’ve learned about alternative items that add variety to the table. Food should be fun. Until the day where we all line up to eat our daily allotment of Soylent Green, […]

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Another Reason to Produce Your Own Food

Written by db on April 11th, 2014. 4 Comments

I was talking with BlueTang today, and he mentioned the fact that there is an ongoing swine epidemic….not swine flue affecting humans, but a virus that affects swine, killing large numbers of them. A quick Google search reveals this:

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Manatee Steaks – Finally!

Written by db on April 1st, 2014April 1st, 2014. 21 Comments

Over the weekend, my family and I made a road trip 4 hours west to Tampa in order to visit some friends from my high school days back in West Virginia. It seems I am far from the only West Virginia hillbilly living in Florida…(and definitely far from the only hillbilly, or at least down-home […]

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