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I am trying to figure out this part of succession planting. I just planted out my 1 mo old small broccoli Primero (72 days), and early Jersey Wakefield cabbage (60-75 days). i have never grown these before.I am hoping that since they are about 30 days old, that means they have roughly 30-40 more days to harvest. I am hoping to be able to harvest and pull up before i have to put my tomatoes out around May 10 or slightly after. Is this correct,o way off base? I am trying to get as much as possible out of my raised beds. Tammy |
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Here brocolli and cabbage is done in mid summer, july 15th or so. I get spinich or mustard green done before tomatoes and peppers. Those numbers on the seed pks are from the time you plant out not from seed. |
wow, I didnt know that, makes more sens eit would be from time germinated or sown. i guess I will have to figure out soemthing to do with mine then, because they wont be done till early july, and I was planning on putting my tomatoes in these beds. Tammy |
Agree that you will find that DTM on them is from the day of transplanting when transplants are used, not the day the seed is planted. I know that is the case for EJ Wakefield. I plant it out Mar. 15 here and it is ready for harvest end of May into early June although it can go longer depending on weather. Never grown that variety of broccoli but the DTM rule holds true for most vegetables when transplants are used. Dave |
Thanks Dave, thats good to know. I wont be able to put out my tomatoes till Mid May, so maybe I can still work them in, since the cabbage etc would be ready to pull shortly after. Could I have planted out the cabbage around end of march then since you planted out mid march? we have only had about a total of 6" of snow this winter, and its been in the 70's the last 2-3 weeks. this weeks lows are expected to be 63,40,38,41,46. |
It looks like you are heading for a June harvest or late May with the broccoli. You probably could have set out plants at the end of March if the weather has warmed some. Broccoli and cabbage are tender to heavy frost and freezing until the roots get established. You can tell when roots are established because the plants are growing after transplant. |
I grow fast-maturing broc and cabbage in spring, and it's ready in June from early April transplanting. I often have seedlings waiting to go into the ground until another crop is harvested. Tomatoes will hold in containers for quite a long time. In my garden, the first big turnover of space comes in late June, when early garlic and cabbage are harvested. I don't plant anything where tomatoes will be planted in May. |
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In cases involving kidnapping and other heinous crimes, for obvious reasons, the complaints are not filed by the victims themselves. A complainant other than the victim gives a verbal testimony to the police officer, and the latter prepared a written complaint based on the verbal testimony. The complainant then affixes his signature on the complaint. Such a method may soil the integrity of the complaint because the police officer can fabricate the contents of the written complaint for his convenience and personal interest. He can even force the complainant to sign the fabricated complaint against the latter�s will and hide the fabrication from the judge. This flaw in the process can be cured by requiring oral statements rather than written complaints to be presented to the judge. This will greatly improve the credibility and accuracy of information received by the judge, which will be the basis for deciding whether to issue the warrant of arrest or not. The increase in the time and effort required in making the oral statements will certainly be immaterial when compared to the improved credibility and accuracy of the information/complaint. The second flaw is the person of the arresting officer. More often than not, police officers conduct their arrests alone or in a group without being accompanied by an independent witness. This gives the police officers the opportunity to make arrests according to their own discretion and identify the arrestee based solely on their own understanding of the information in the warrant. This unbridled discretion is even more pronounced when the warrants of arrest ambiguous, vague or too general. Some ill-minded police officers may use such flaw to further their own interests and ulterior motives. Arbitrary arrests of innocent citizens may also be done for mere publicity�s sake. 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The rig did have a minor problem, I had it shipped to store and it most likely was damaged in that process(the faceplate is cracked and a piece of the side is missing. Nothing terrible, but unsightly especially when you pay $1,500 for a new rig.) Anyway the store told me they didn't have anymore of that model in stock to take a faceplate from. And that they had contacted the manufacturer and they didn't have one either.
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One of the main reasons this blog hasn't gotten any love lately is because of my new side project, PiX Eyewear. I won't dive into all of the details here, but I maintain another blog detailing my experiences trying to start this business while continuing to work full time as a software developer. I'm using an e-commerce platform called Shopify for this project. Working with Shopify has been a very positive experience overall and has definitely given me an opportunity to venture out of the .NET development ecosystem for a bit.
I wrote a post on my other blog a little while back talking about why I chose to use Shopify for this project. One of the reasons that I like Shopify is they make it very easy to integrate with Google Analytics. The general preferences section of the administrative interface for every Shopify store includes a convenient textbox where you can enter your Google Analytics code.
Entering this code will automatically inject the standard Google Analytics tracking snippet into every page of your store. This ends up looking something like this:
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To do this, you'll first need to go in and clear out the analytics code that you've entered in the general setting section of your site (if any). Then go to the 'Template Editor' in your site's administrative interface. From there, open the 'Theme' file under the 'Layouts' area. Once open, look for the closing tag of the <head> section of your layout. It'll likely look something like this:
{{ content_for_header }} </head> <body id="page-{{template}}">
Put the following bit of javascript right before the closing </head> tag being sure to replace the 'UA-XXXXX-1' placeholder with your own analytics code.
<script type="text/javascript"> var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-XXXXX-1']); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); (function() { var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true; ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js'; var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s); })(); </script>
Save your layout template and you'll be all setup with asynchronous analytics tracking. Now we're ready to start tracking products that get added to the shopping cart.
Google has very detailed Event Tracking docs, but I'll attempt to distill the information presented there and tell you about how I'm using Event Tracking to see which products my customers are adding to their shopping carts. At it's core, Event Tracking boils down to a single method call:
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The method takes four arguments. The first two, 'category' and 'action', are required, the last two are optional. You can choose whatever categories and actions you want, but I opted to have a single category called 'Products' with an action called 'Added To Cart'. I used the third parameter, 'label' to track the handle of the product being added to the cart. My _trackEvent method call ended up looking like this:
_trackEvent('Products', 'Added To Cart', '<product handle>')
Implementing this is as simple as modifying your 'product.liquid' template in the template editor of your site. Open the 'product' file under the 'Templates' section of the Template Editor. This template will vary based on the layout that you initially chose for your store, but you should be able to locate the following bit of HTML to indicate where the 'Add To Cart' form falls on the page:
<form action="/cart/add" method="post">
Somewhere between that tag and the closing </form> tag you should see an <input> element representing the 'Add To Cart' button that customers use to add the current product to their shopping cart. For my store, it looks like this:
<input type="image" name="add" value="Add to Cart" id="add" src="{{ 'add_to_cart.gif' | asset_url }}" />
We need to add an 'onclick' event handler attribute to this element that will queue up our '_trackEvent' method call. By doing this we'll tell Google Analytics that every time someone clicks the 'Add To Cart' button we want to track what product was added. We'll make use of the Liquid product.handle variable that Shopify exposes in this template to plug in the handle of whatever product is currently being viewed. For my store, the input element ended up looking like this:
<input onclick="_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'Products', 'Add To Cart', '{{ product.handle }}']);" type="image" name="add" value="Add to Cart" id="add" src="{{ 'add_to_cart.gif' | asset_url }}" />
That's it! Providing you've done everything correctly you should start seeing these events show up in your Google Analytics account under 'Content' –> 'Event Tracking'. In my experience Google Analytics typically takes about 24 hours to report data, so you may need to wait a day until you start seeing the events show up.
Once you've setup Event Tracking for adding products to the cart you'll find it's very easy to add Event Tracking to other areas of your store. For example, I was also interested in tracking each time users clicked the 'Checkout' button while viewing the contents of their shopping cart. Once users click the 'Checkout' button on their shopping carts they are directed to the secure Shopify checkout form. Providing they complete at least the first step in this form (providing shipping information) an order number will be created for their order. If they finish this first step but ultimately fail to complete the process they will show up as an 'Abandoned Order' in your Orders dashboard. If they don't complete the first step, however, you'll never get any indication of their intent to check out. I was interested in seeing how many users might be clicking the 'Checkout' button but then not even finishing the first step. This can be easily accomplished by adding some Event Tracking code to the 'Checkout' input element in your cart.liquid template.


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Hi, I have two Flame Grapevines and both are producing. The problem I have is that within a cluster, grapes are ripening at different rates. At any time I have half a dozen ripe juicy grapes but the rest look green! Should I just harvest and let them ripen on the shelf or is there a trick to it? Thanks in advance! |
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Sounds to me like you may be jumping the gun. All or most of the berries should turn red before harvest. Here is what mine look like at harvest. What I don't like about mine is that I should have trimmed off the skinny lower half of each cluster. That way I could have left more clusters with more uniform fruit. The fruit on the cluster tip of many grapes has inferior quality, less sweet and often less color. Notice on the left cluster some of the lower grapes are smaller and lighter color. Well I just tried eating those and they were seriously inferior to the berries up top. |
Could it be shatter? Incomplete pollination can cause grapes in clusters to grow in odd sizes; not all uniform or close to uniform. Fruitnut what kind of grapes are those besides beautiful!!! |
- Posted by homey_bird (My Page) on Sat, Jul 20, 13 at 19:40
OMG! Those grapes are beautiful!! Mine are hardly that deep color but hopefully next year. Thanks for the tip. I will also thin clusters next year. |
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Grilled Andouille Eggplant Po Boy
January 23, 2014
Let the good times roll with this vegetarian twist on New Orleans style po boy thanks to Justin Fox Burks of TheChubbyVegetarian.com.
The imminent opening of The Second Line, Chef Kelly English's no-reservations-required restaurant and bar, next door to the fantastic Restaurant Iris has me thinking a lot about po boys; the New Orleans sandwich is set to be the main attraction at The Second Line. I, for one, am super pumped to have an authentic po boy shop right here in Memphis.
On occasion when I'm in the Crescent City, I'll sit down and take on a monstrous French Fry Po Boy from Mother's. You see, the first, the original, and possibly still the best po boys were made with French fries and gravy on a light and crispy baguette. "What else is possible?" I thought to myself. I came up with a list of things to try, including this fantastic Grilled Andouille Eggplant Po Boy. It's a pretty good start!
Grilled Andouille Eggplant Po Boy
1 teaspoon Kosher salt
1 teaspoon dried thyme
1 teaspoon crushed red pepper
1 teaspoon granulated garlic
1 teaspoon cracked black pepper
8 cups 1-inch-sliced Japanese eggplant (3-4 medium)
1/4 cup canola oil
1/4 cup Creole mustard (more to garnish)
1 tablespoon vegetarian Worcestershire sauce
1 24-inch crispy baguette (La Baguette in Memphis has the right stuff!)
1/2 head of iceberg lettuce (shredded)
sliced tomatoes
thick-cut garlic dill pickle slices
In a small bowl mix together the salt, thyme, red pepper, garlic, and black pepper. Set spice mixture aside. Toss the eggplant slices with the canola and the mustard and then add the spice mixture. Toss to evenly distribute the spices. Cover and set aside in the fridge for 1 hour.
Preheat your outdoor grill to high. Once the grill is up to temperature, grill marinated eggplant slices on both sides until well marked by the grill grates. This should take about 4 minutes per side. Remove the eggplant and get ready to assemble the sandwich.
Slice the ends off of the baguette and make a cut down one side of the bread while leaving the other side intact. Slather on Creole mustard and mayonnaise. Add the lettuce, eggplant, tomatoes, and pickles. Feast! (Serves 4.)


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Found guilty by judge of assaulting a woman. Jason Butt
As testimony came out in Greg Hardy's assault case last week, it was clear a level of dysfunction was present.
Hardy was found guilty by a judge of assaulting his then-girlfriend Nicole Holder after a night of partying. The details included Hardy backhanding her, slamming her hand against a toilet and threatening to kill her in the presence of guns.
Hardy has appealed and will have a jury trial.
Panthers general manager Dave Gettleman commented on Hardy's legal matter Thursday, via the team's official website.
"We constantly talk to our players about putting themselves in a position to succeed, both on the field, and even more importantly, in life," Gettleman said. "What's happened with Greg is very concerning and very disappointing. These are very serious allegations.
"We respect the fact that Greg has appealed the decision, and he's entitled to a jury trial. We have been in touch with the league. They have a personal conduct policy that we are a part of. We have to respect the legal process. That's where we're at.
"It's not an easy situation. It's in the courts, and we have to respect that process."
The Panthers gave Hardy the franchise tag designation this offseason, which is worth $13.2 million for the 2014 season. The organization can't be too happy about what Hardy was found guilty of, especially considering the NFL is hoping to appeal to more female fans.
In addition, a suspension is inevitable at this point for Hardy. With the NFL suspending Ray Rice for two games as a first-time offender without a conviction, Hardy should expect some punishment from the league's office.
It's now just a matter of when that decision will be made and how long he'll have to sit out for.
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Edit: Wanted to have the subject be "Bagged, Bare, and Potted", but alas you cannot edit the subject line. My Hallson's order arrived today at 4pm! The Priority mail postage laabel says it was shipped on April 3rd, just 2 days ago from a land far, far away. Here they are bagged, laid out and potted. Around here all my hostas are unfurling, even may always-the-last-one, Fire and Ice. TGIF cocktail hour got delayed a bit tonight. Americana -Babka |
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- Posted by Don_in_Colorado 6a (My Page) on Sat, Apr 6, 13 at 0:58
Hm. Nice pics, Babka.<---(sarcasm; no pics) It's not nice to taunt Hostaholics. :) Don B. |
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- Posted by ken_adrian z5 (My Page) on Sat, Apr 6, 13 at 8:33
i dont see any pix i am surprised.. as some of my soil is still frozen.. 10 miles east of him.. he must be magic ken |
The pics were there when I first posted. They went away when I came back and edited the text. Learn something new everyday. ;-) |
Babka, nicely staged pips. Lovely hostas in behind... what are they? I'm still trying to decide what to buy this spring. |
They look terrific Babka, as do your leafed out hosta! In lieu of the delayed TGIF cocktail hour, how about Celebratory After Planting (CAP) cocktail(s)?! Once again, Hallson Gardens delivers really nice product :-) Deb |
Dgregory- Absolutely. CAP. Think I'll have to plant some more tonite. ;-) Irawon- Halcyon on the left, Diana Remembered center and Dancing Queen. -Babka |
- Posted by Don_in_Colorado 6a (My Page) on Sat, Apr 6, 13 at 16:21
Ah, very nice, Babka! Hosta from Hallson Gardens are always worth posting. ('Dancing Queen' just went on my wish list). Don B. |
The local nursery has some dancing queen. Would you recommend it? Does she grow well? (That way I won't have to pay a cover charge to see her show.) bk |
I knew that was Dancing Queen right away. It looks great. I look forward to seeing mine come up this spring. Thanks for sharing Babka. I look forward to seeing these again, especially Hyuga Urajiro. Nice looking roots. And bk, I would recommend Dancing Queen. Beverly |
For me, here in CA, Dancing Queen turns to a light green in Summer, but she always has that ruffle edge. I like to put her front and center in Spring, then later she gets moved among the supporting cast. She's a good grower too. How about a "dog whisperer"?????? -Babka |
Babka, I guessed Halcyon and Dancing Queen but not Diana Remembered. This season will be my Dancing Queen's second year in the ground. I hope it develops into as nice a plant as yours. I'll be watching the progress of your Hyuga Urajiro in a pot with interest. Mine is in the ground and has been spectacularly slow growing, possibly, no probably, because of root competition. I'm considering moving it to a better site. |
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Boy, I could use a dog whisperer. bk |
Ohhhh Babka look at you teasing us with your Hallson's order. :p I played it safe and told Chris to mail mine the second week in May. I have some 40+ coming so I will be a busy boy that day. I see you snagged up a Hudson Bay as well. That was one of the first in my cart when I was ordering. I am excited to see the variegation. I wish Eskimo Pie wasn't such carp. Need to figure out what McTavish does to keep it alive. Her pic in the post ,"Some closeup pics from last year,love big leaves .." was stunning. Post pics when they begin to unfurl, please. :) Ludi EDIT: I sighted the wrong post originaly - changed to the correct one now. :) |
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- Posted by moccasinlanding z9A AL (My Page) on Sun, Apr 7, 13 at 20:49
Ludisia, maybe you can try White Elephant instead of Eskimo Pie. I think Eskimo Pie bit the biscuit this winter, but White Elephant is up and looking sweet already. It was slow rising last year, like Dick Ward was. But I'll have to show you the latest when I dump my camera. And BK, I cannot see any sign of Dancing Queen YET. I have several great yellows/golds with ruffled edges, and if she disappears, I do not plan on replacing her. My garden looks like a split personality right now, only half up and leafed out, the other half maybe pipping. I have to repot a lot of them because squirrels exposed a lot of the roots. Boy was I cussing today when the new order from Naylor had 3 pots dug up. Well, I have a full week ahead, with DH having his second cataract surgery Tuesday, more flooring arriving, and the vanlines delivering the last few items from the house up north. |
- Posted by Don_in_Colorado 6a (My Page) on Sun, Apr 7, 13 at 20:54
I looked up 'Eskimo Pie'. Beautiful. It's that much of a Diva, eh? That's a shame. Thanks for the warning. Don B. |
- Posted by rosie742001 z5Oregon (My Page) on Sun, Apr 7, 13 at 21:05
It gets really silly! Is it ABBA that sang Dancing Queen? Whoever, that's what I hear in my head whenever I read the name. I think I have it out in my trees, but things are just startitng to come up out there. |
- Posted by moccasinlanding z9A AL (My Page) on Sun, Apr 7, 13 at 23:46
A link is called for here, to ABBA performing the number LIVE in Australia in 1977....this link is to an upload at YouTube that is HD. Enjoy it. They did the song in MAMA MIA, and that was cute too, but this is the Real McCoy. My little Dancing Queen was lovely last year, I even put a small disco ball in the pot with her.....one of those self-watering mosaic sort of thingies. Special treatment didn't help me though. I'll look for the pot tomorrow. |
Here is a link that might be useful: ABBA Dancing Queen performance
- Posted by moccasinlanding z9A AL (My Page) on Mon, Apr 8, 13 at 22:19
Ludi forgot to check to see if White Elephant was among my photos on Flickr. Fortunately yes. Instead of Eskimo Pie, think about it for the white leaf look... my Eskimo Pie faded away last year, gone gone I do believe. |
Mocc . . . you would recommend another white centered hosta to me . . . ENABLER !!!!! My list of white centered hosta currently consists of: Andrew (I'll be dead in the ground before I see this one mature) WISH LIST includes: Eskimo Pie and now thanks to you . . . White Elephant . . . . . I'm such a sucker. :p What are friends for right ? Ludi |
- Posted by moccasinlanding z9A AL (My Page) on Tue, Apr 9, 13 at 0:51
Yah yah, Ludi, "Sticks and stones can break my bones, but names can never harm me......" ENABLER back at yah yah. You'd do the same for me, friend! :) And you mean to say you have nothing on that list yet? |
Hahaaaa, Mocc you make me smile. :) I guess I could have made that list a little clearer. I DO HAVE all the ones listed EXCEPT what is under Wish List. My point was kind of lost in the syntax, but I am completely partial to the white centered hostas, just like you with your Green and Yellow. I find myself leaning to them every time I open a website or look at a catalog. I bought Half and Half last year in July after YOU recommended it to me. :p It's one of my favs. Stayed strong looooong into the fall and the center didn't fade out or green up. Nice thick leaves too. JUST to make sure I don't live down my title of Enabler, have you seen Summer Lovin yet ? It very much reminds me of your style of hosta. Ludi P.S. Sorry Babka for hijacking your thread. I'll make it up to you, promise. :) |
- Posted by Hostanista 5B (Ont) (My Page) on Tue, Apr 9, 13 at 9:25
Never liked ABBA in the 70's-80's, still don't like 'em now. Oh but that Dancing Queen...gotta get me some a dat. |
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I am always surprised how much cabbage is actually in a head of cabbage. I guess I think it looks like a head of lettuce, and plan out portions accordingly. But cabbage (as I'm sure you've long since figured out) is much denser. In other words, when you buy an entire head of cabbage, there is a lot there to play around with. So whenever I make cabbage dish, I'm almost always left with a quarter that doesn't make it in.
I had made some sauteed cabbage earlier in the week, and had the expected, yet unplanned, chunk left over. Too much to throw away, not enough for making something on it's own. Luckily I had an equally lonely fennel bulb, and two orphaned celery sticks.
The result was this salad. Winter salads are always a challenge. Lettuce seems too wan and tasteless, and oil and vinegar is nothing to get excited about. But all these crunchy winter vegetables play very nicely together, especially when dressed with a slightly sweet, fruity dressing. And the coriander seeds add just the right touch of exotic earthiness.
Crunchy Winter Cabbage and Fennel Salad
serves 4 as side dish
1/4 head Red Cabbage
1 bulb Fennel
2 stalks Celery
1 1/2 teaspoons Coriander Seeds, crushed
Slice the cabbage into 1/4 ribbons.
Slice the fennel length wise, through root end, into 1/4 inch slices
Slice celery into 1/8 inch slices, cross wise.
Place all three vegetables in a serving bowl.
1/4 cup Pomegranate molasses
3 tablespoons Lemon juice
3 tablespoons orange juice
2 tablespoons balsamic vinegar
2 tablespoons olive oil
1 teaspoon honey
Pour pomegranate molasses and honey into small bowl. Stir to mix well. Then add lemon juice, and stir with fork to blend (honey and molasses are kind of thick)
Add the rest of the ingredients and mix well, adjusting for salt and pepper.
Pour over salad, and add crushed coriander seeds. Toss.
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So, you have a shiny new iPhone or iPad and now you can't bear to peel the screen protector off. We've all been there. But if you find yourself clinging to it twelve months later, it might be time to invest in a capacitive stylus pen.
Most smartphones and tablets (including the iPad, iPhone, and Kindle) have capacitive touch screens. These special touch screens have built-in sensors that constantly monitor the surrounding electrostatic field. When your finger touches the screen and disturbs the electrostatic field with its natural bio-electricity, the device can determine its location and react accordingly. Capacitive stylus pens simply act as substitutes for your finger, conducting the electrical charge from your hand to the touch screen. The tip of a stylus pen is typically made of soft rubber, which won't damage your screen as long as its regularly cleaned of dust and debris. In general, capacitive styli must have:
1. A conductive surface that can transmit the electrical charge between your hand and the screen.
2. A tip greater than 0.25" wide (so that the device "recognizes" it as a finger) 3. A smooth surface, so that your screen isn't damaged. In most cases, the stylus pen won't work if your palms are resting on the screen. However, iPad apps like Notability, Penultimate, and Ghostwriter all have wrist-guards so that you can rest on the screen without messing with the feedback.
The capacitive stylus pens listed in Staff Picks are compatible with most smartphones and tablets, including the iPad, iPhone, Kindle, and Android devices. The styli used for graphics tablets (like Wacom tablets) and the styli used for the Nintendo DS are not capacitive, and generally will not work with smartphones and tablets.
We tried four of our favorite stylus pens out using an iPad2 and the drawing app Paper by FiftyThree:
Once you remove the cap and post it, the Sensu becomes a full-fledged 7" paintbrush with enough length to feel comfortable in your hand, and the most exciting part of the pen is revealed: a brush tip with synthetic, conductive fibers. The lack of resistance against the brush takes some getting used to, but the experience is surprisingly realistic. The brush is responsive, fluid, and never frustrating. Plus, there's something freeing about the experience -- no dripping water, no crusty tubes of paint, and no easel to trip over. It's perfect for sketching during long commutes, and not nearly as conspicuous and unwieldy as pen and paper. When we interviewed Sensu designer Rick Rousseau back in August, he observed that the brush "has a little bit of magic that makes people smile." I'm inclined to agree. BEST FOR: Artists
To switch to roller ball mode, all you have to do is click the top of the pen. It's clear that the pen component wasn't just an afterthought -- the ink comes out delightfully dark and smooth, gliding nicely over the paper. Clip the LunaTik Touch Pen to your iPad cover or binder and you're good to go! BEST FOR: Students
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Last week I blogged about some of my favourite Christmas traditions – gathering with a large group of friends and family to walk through the woods in search of the perfect Christmas tree; building a large beach side bonfire to watch the Carol Ships sailing by at night; and best of all, attending a wonderful Winter Harp concert. All of these are annual Christmas traditions that I look forward to at this time of the year.
Christmas is also about food and each year I'm responsible for organizing my Men's Group to make about 350 rum balls for the Christmas Cookie Sale at our church. These rum balls are an extremely popular item and are likely the reason why line-ups appear well before the doors open.
But I'm getting ahead of myself. Some of the guys in my group barely know how to boil water, so over the years I've had to perfect the recipe and simplify the process to ensure that all 350 rum balls are made to the same exacting standards that our door crashing, Christmas cooke sale customers have come to expect. Herewith, is my not so secret, favourite Christmas recipe…
You only need six ingredients so gather the following together:
- 2 1/2 cups of Vanilla Wafers (you could also use chocolate or Graham)
- 1 1/2 cups of walnuts (Martha Stewart likes to toast these for extra flavour)
- 1 cup of powdered sugar
- 1/4 cup of cocoa powder
- 1/2 cup of dark rum
- 1/4 cup of corn syrup
Dump the first four ingredients into a food processor and whirl it all together until you get a loose crumb. Pour this into a large bowl and set aside. Add the last two ingredients into a smaller bowl and mix well. Add the wet to the dry mixture and mix until the liquid is completely absorbed and a large dough ball can be formed. Add more rum if you need but only a tablespoon at a time. Refrigerate for half an hour or so. Make yourself a cup of coffee while you're waiting. You can add a drop or two of rum… just for quality control, mind you.
The size of the rum balls is a matter of individual choice. We usually get 30-40 rum balls from this recipe but church cookie sales are a serious business and we're not giving them away. Start by dividing the big dough ball into 4 parts – you should get 8-10 balls from each quarter.
Now comes some fun. Pour a little cocoa powder into a cereal bowl and drop in one or two rum balls. Twirl the bowl around and Voilà… the rum ball is coated with cocoa. You can do this with some powdered sugar as well, or even some ground nuts that you've toasted, just like Martha.
Rum Balls mature in flavour with age so start early and store them in a covered container in the refrigerator for at least a few days before serving. I like to wrap them in some cheese cloth that I've soaked in a little more rummmmm….


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Here is yet another story where leaders in the Catholic Church disregarded sexual abuse allegations and pressured victims to remain silent. According to the NY Times article, Cardinal Godfried Danneels, 77, who retired as the archbishop of Brussels in January after 30 years, met with the victim, now 42, and his uncle, Bishop Robert Vangheluwe, 73, on April 8 to pressure the victim either to accept a private apology or to wait until the bishop retired.
The main difference from this coverup and the countless others like it? This victim created audio tapes of the meeting! The tapes were recently released and church authorities have verified them as accurate.
During the meeting, Cardinal Danneels stated: "The bishop will resign next year, so actually it would be better for you to wait," the cardinal told the victim. "I don't think you'd do yourself or him a favor by shouting this from the rooftops" and "not to blackmail the church. You should accept a private apology from the bishop and not drag his name through the mud.
Another key difference between this case and others is that this did not result from a church investigation.
The case is being handled by the Belgium police. In fact, police raided church headquarters, seized documents and computers and detained several bishops for questioning. Cardinal Danneels was questioned by officers for 10 hours. A retired priest reported that he warned Cardinal Danneels about the abuse 14 years ago but was berated for doing so.
The Pope's response? He called the police raids "deplorable" and stressed the autonomy of the church to handle it's own investigations. Yeah, because letting you handle your own cases has worked out so well for all of the other victims. You know what's deplorable? The sexual abuse of a boy by a trusted faith leader and a family member for 13 years while those in your order bullied and threatened him to keep quiet. All of this happened while the abuse was kept secret. You know what else is deplorable? The fact that you are calling this an investigation. He admitted that he did it and you knew that he did it! What is left to investigate?
Since you are so concerned with handling things yourself, what did you do when this story broke and the facts were presented? You accepted his resignation! You didn't excommunicate or defrock him. You allowed to retreat to a monastery, where I am sure he is living comfortably. I hope that the police increase pressure regarding this case and drag him off to jail and anyone else who was involved in the coverup. They shouldn't allow him to receive a peaceful retirement even though you would.


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I'm in the process of learning to cook Vietnamese, Thai and Korean food, but I'm not familiar with what types of vegetables and greens I need and wont be until it'll be too late to start anything that needs to be started indoors. I've got some cookbooks on the way, including:
Flavors of Korea: Delicious Vegetarian Cuisine
I'm not vegetarian per se but I don't much care for meat, so I have a natural penchant to lean towards using more vegetables and more vegetarian style cooking. I've been cooking Indian food for over 30 years so I've got that under control, LOL! I love Thai and have a limited Thai repertoire to date. I love Korean food, especially the banchan that come with the meal (they're SUPPOSED to be side dishes but they make a meal in themselves as far as I'm concerned), but I don't cook it at all. Vietnamese is the cuisine with which I am least familiar. I looked at the Asian vegetables on Fedco and Evergreen Seeds and they are pretty confusing, the latter in particular has 4 different "Korean cucumbers" and I have no idea how to choose. There are also a bunch of Thai eggplant varieties, most of which seem to be small round green types, again I have no basis for choosing. There is only one variety of "Korean eggplant" so at least that one's easy though it looks like I could use any long oriental variety (of which I have several on the way). I've got Ravenna, long green eggplant coming, I'm kind of assuming that'll do for the "long green" eggplant style under Thai varieties even though its from India. And then there are herbs, greens, radishes, and cabbage varieties, and these I have not the slightest idea of what I may need. Buying fresh oriental vegetables isn't an option here, the only store in town that carried anything like that went out of business. I could be hard pressed to come up with lemon grass from now on, had I realized they were closing I swear to high heaven I'd have stopped in there and bought up their remaining stock, LOL! I've ordered some lemongrass seed but don't know how trying to grow that will work out since it'll have to be container grown and moved indoors in winter. Any suggestions? |
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Well, I'm getting more into Asian vegetables myself, and there are a lot of choices. It may come down to doing what I did -- just order an assortment of different things to try, and see what you like and what does well for you. Then, keep the things you really like, don't grow the ones you don't like or don't do well for your, and keep trying new ones. |
Hi! My husband is Korean and from ten years experience cooking for him (and having my MIL come here and cook), here's what I can share. 1. Cucumbers -- really, any variety will do. A kirby, or pickling cuke is probably better since it has less water, but all summer long we pick whatever cucumber is ripe from the garden and make oye salad -- yum! (just drain slicing cucumbers first so the water doesn't dilute the dressing. 2. Eggplant -- Pingtung long or other Asian long eggplants are preferred. 3. Cabbage - Napa 4. Peppers - korean peppers are long, green and not too hot. I'm sorry, I don't know the variety name. We grow jalepenos in our garden and my MIL uses them the same way. 5. Herbs -- garlic chives are necessary for many kimchis. They are just as invasive in the garden as regular chives. 6. Scallions/green onions -- used fresh in alot of dishes. 7. Radishes - korean radishes are weird and I've never seen one that isn't pickled or kimchi'd. They are NOT daikon. 8. Spinach -- my MIL has never made a bib bim bop or japchae without spinach 9. Leaf lettuce -- to make a ssam (wrap rice, thinly sliced garlic, hot pepper paste and the barbecued meat of your choice in a lettuce leaf - make a packet, not a roll - then eat it in one bite) I'd say if you can get ahold of korean hot pepper powder, sesame oil, rice wine vinegar, sesame seeds, kim (roasted seaweed), and gochujang (pungent hot red pepper chili paste), you should be set. |
Well I love Kitazawa seeds they have lots of things for you to check out. I recomend the white nebuka bunching onion. http://www.kitazawaseed.com/index.html You might enjoy this food blog also. Try the ginger scallion oil. I used the bunching onions from the garden and it turned out great. I think its more Chinese but it will add flavor to alot of things. http://www.themaltesebacon.com/my_weblog/ Make a batch and have for the rest of the week to add lots of flavor to stir fries or plain rice. This stuff is amazing. 1/4 cup corn or peanut oil In a food processor, grind the ginger and scallion. Put in a tall bowl or cup. Add healthy pinches of salt. (It should be enough to salt the 1/4 cup of oil.) Heat oil until just smoking. Pour oil over ginger scallion. Be careful, because it will smoke and sputter when you pour it. |
I think you also need Thai basil and coriander. I have cataloged recipes in Cooking Light magazine and started a folder of recipes I get off the internet. I review recipes I want to try for ingredients I need to buy and/or grow. There are some great recipe blogs I've found thru Chowhound. Last year I grew baby bok choy and a type of Chinese cabbage with seed I got from Johnny's. I'm considering ordering their braising greens seed mix to have a good selection for stir frying. Don't be afraid to experiment with flavors. I followed the recipe on the can for my husband's favorite Massaman curry and used sweet potatoes like the restaurant does but the last time I made it I used some Confection winter squash (seed from Johnny's) and we thought it was an even tastier dish because of the great flavor the squash has. Happy gardening. Today it's spring but we still have snow on the ground. |
re the lemongrass --- if you have a chance to get lemongrass from a market, you can get these rooted easily. Just remove the top green parts of the grass, root the rest in water, changing the water frequently when it gets cloudy. It should start showing roots in a matter of a week or so. re the korean peppers - just get a ripened pepper and allow to dry out in the fridge. Remove the seeds and grow them. There are many korean groceries near my place and I am amazed by the variety of vegetables and herbs they offer.. I've also seen such things as aster being offered as vegetables? I don't know what variety it is, but that was how it was labeled. Hmm., you are making me crave for Korean Pork Bone soup. Ianna |
- Posted by zensojourner (My Page) on Mon, Apr 6, 09 at 17:51
I think it's a chrysanthemum. It's called garland chyrsanthemum and it's used as a vegetable, not an herb. I was told I should get some but I had already ordered seeds. Plus I think I have a cultural bias against eating flowers, LOL! |
- Posted by cyrus_gardner (My Page) on Mon, Apr 6, 09 at 22:09
Anybody is growing sesame? I use the seeds, oil and just love fresh sesame leaves. This year, some of the seeds that fell of the plants last year are growing by themselves.So I don't have to plant them. What are your culinary use for fresh sesame leaves? Cyrus |
I think that what you are growing is actually Shiso (Perilla frutescens) which is commonly called "sesame leaves" in Korean recipes. In the link, you can see what the sesame plant (Sesamum indicum) looks like. |
Here is a link that might be useful: sesame leaves
- Posted by cyrus_gardner (My Page) on Wed, Apr 8, 09 at 22:09
"I think that what you are growing is actually Shiso (Perilla frutescens) which is commonly called "sesame leaves" in Korean recipes" Solanum, |
- Posted by cyrus_gardner (My Page) on Wed, Apr 8, 09 at 22:41
Solanum I googled and found out that what I have been growing is called: KOREAN SHISO, which is different from other perila/shisoes. Actually Japanes perila/shiso is not botanically related to Korean shiso. I also found out incredible information about it; that is it has medicinal benefits in addition to its aroma and good taste. Thanks again. |
I did not see long beans mentioned in the above posts - unless I missed it. These grow exceptionally well in our part of the country; not sure how they do in cooler climates. These are used in many Asian dishes. In fact, I don't believe I have a non-Asian recipe for these. Following is just one example of many recipes. |
Here is a link that might be useful: Stir-fry Port with Long Beans
- Posted by cyrus_gardner (My Page) on Sat, Apr 11, 09 at 22:18
"I did not see long beans mentioned in the above posts " Hey grandad There is a "yard long beans" thread somewher in this forum. I think it is the same as "yardlong" beans. I have planted some seed but I have not noticed them germinating yet. The variety that I planted has red seeds, very similar to red beans. I wonder if red beans come from matured yardlong beans. Anyway, most beans seem to like warm weather, but peas like cool weather. I have planted sum sugar snap and snow peas way back in FEB and MAR. They have seen frosts but have survived and are growing fine in zone 7.5. I am anxious to see my yardlongs though. Gardening is fun. Cyrus |
Cyrus, I was just simply responding to the request on which Asian vegetables to grow. Long beans were not mentioned so I added this to the list of potential candidates. I have not yet planted my 2009 long beans. Our low temps are getting into the 50's which is still a bit too cool for planting. I'll probably wait another week or so before planting. Here are last years.. |
- Posted by cyrus_gardner (My Page) on Wed, Apr 15, 09 at 19:58
hi grandad Gee! 50s is too cold for bean? I am very anxious to see those yardlongs. I will be happy with half of the , 18 inches or so. Gardening is fun. |
- Posted by zensojourner (My Page) on Fri, Apr 17, 09 at 23:28
I ordered Scarlet Runner beans, Winged Beans, and some variety of yardlong bean from Evergreen. The winged beans look like they're going to be a pain, you have to soak the seed and prestart it indoors to transplant out. Seeds that don't plump up the first go round have to be scarified and then soaked again. Looks like a pain. I think the yardlong beans I got have to be treated the same way. Oh well it'll be interesting I guess, LOL! |
Cyrus, unlike snap beans, long beans prefer a much warmer climate. (I normally plant snap beans in late March.) On Wednesday, April 22nd I planted half of my 12 foot long bean row. Our daily highs are now mostly well into the 80's and our lows are in the upper 60's. I'll plant the second half of my row in about 2 weeks. |
- Posted by cyrus_gardner 7/8 (My Page) on Sat, Apr 25, 09 at 4:12
grandad Thanks. I know now why none of my beans have germinated. If you plan bean in late March in zone 9, then I should plant them, like in early May, in zone 7.5. I wonder if my seeds are stil alive in the ground!! But, to be sure I will plant new ones again. I am mostly interested in long beans, and some colorful pole beans. Cyrus |
Granddad i have seen that picture of your longbean trellis extension before. What would happen if you didn't add the extension? Would the beans just start to cascade back down? Would it affect yield? i am very curious! Cyrus gardener please contact me privately through my Gardenweb member page-thanks! zensojourner i do not mean to highjack your thread! So far i think no one has mentioned pumpkin or watercress. Watercress is a classic veggie side dish at Korean restaurants here. Thais enjoy pumpkin which is not like the jack o'lantern Americans are familiar with. More like a winter squash or even more like a Japanese Kabocha. Check out this website i just surfed into yesterday, they sell Thai vegetable seeds although they are adapted more to a tropical climate and i am not sure about your zone. i have not ordered from them so i cannot comment on product or service. Kaffir lime is pretty much a must for Thai food. it is not frost-proof but it should do OK in a pot if you suffer from that affliction ; ) i have heard that this can be ordered from FourWinds if you cannot get it locally. Cilantro, Mint, Thai Basil have all been mentioned but if you'd like to get really authentic try herbs Culantro and Rau Ram. Oh and green papaya salad is pretty much classic Thai food. You can use unripe solo papaya but the real green papaya is large, long and used primarily as a vegetable. i've been looking for a seed source myself. Sawatdi ; ) |
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Mauirose, yes, the beans would just cascade back down the trellis. The trellis was originally 5 feet; it's now 7 feet. I don't think the production was increased with the extension. Growth of the vines appears to be the same. There is just a smaller bundle of vines at the top of the extended trellis. |
As a 5'something, I have to wonder how you pick the beans that form at the top... |
I've posted else where about various Asian vegetables that can be found at Baker's Creek Heirloom seeds, www.rareseeds.com they carry a great number of OP Asian vegetable seed some of them can't be found anywhere else. They carry Chinese Red Noodle beans which is one of my favorites, along with wing beans although that one needs a long season with short days to produce the edible tuber and the beans, although the young shoots are tasty stir fried. They carry quite a few eggplants types and have the chinese wax melon and edible snake gourds, lemon grass and a good many others. George W. |
Thanks Grandad. Agree with George W.-Baker's Creek Rocks |
Solanum, I set the trellis height based on how high I can reach. At "5 ft something" you too could reach 7 ft depending on the "something". |
- Posted by californian 10 (My Page) on Fri, May 1, 09 at 23:33
I am growing Perilla from seeds I harvested last year. Someone gave me some Korean squash plant seeds. They say all parts of the plant are usable as food including the squash, leaves, and vines. I am also growing Tatsoi mustard for the first time. I would like to grow Korean peppers but the peppers they sell in the Korean markets are green, and I don't know if the seeds from them would be mature enough to plant. |
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