Grow Your Own

Along with the tomatoes and peppers and others in my expanded garden this yr, I will be including tobacco. Seeds and info are on line. Looks fairly simple, cheap, doable in Mn; drying and curing seems to be somewhat of an art, as does the rolling of a fine cigar, which is what I am interested in doing.

I look forward to finishing off a great meal w/ espresso, chocolate, cognac, and a dandy cigar.

A Cold Beer and an Egg Salad Sandwich

Sunny and 55 degrees or more( today?) gets me thinking of an egg salad sandwich and a cold beer on the porch. It is nice to think of that again. You will want your early chives and/or green onions and just enough jalapeno pepper so that you know that you are eating when you are eating.

Oh, maple sap, in addition to calcium, has potassium and magnesium - just don't know how much, as if we needed and excuse to imbibe one of nature's finest....

Time to plan a garden w/ plenty of tomatoes and peppers of all sorts because they are so good and good for you too, and you can save a lot of money if you simply harvest and freeze them. Freeze jalapenos whole and tomatoes quartered. I will double my production this yr by adding plants( 6-8 tomato)and 10 - 12 pepper, and by locating my garden in a sunnier and hotter location. Tomatoes and peppers love the sun and the heat, as do I.

Maple Sap

People in South Korea believe that drinking maple tree sap will make their bones as strong as the maple tree.It is bottled and sold in that un-reduced form and is a growth industry. According to an article in the NY Times, it has plenty of calcium, and tastes like weak slightly sweetened green tea. I will research that.

With the right marketing, it would probably sell in America, too.