The pineapple is a native of South America and is a member of the bromeliad family. Here are some other fun facts, according to the Wikipedia Pineapple article: Hummingbirds are its natural pollinators. The fruit develops from many smaller berries fusing together. Wild pineapples will contain one seed for each flower that produced the fruit. However, most commercially [...]
From Alexander comes a link to someone who is pushing their culinary boundaries quite a bit farther than I am willing to go here at The Grown Diaries. This is not for the squeamish: Garden Snail Risotto. It’s time. A week ago I collected my snails, and after five days of banqueting on the finest [...]
Life, as they say, is an adventure. Or it can be made into one at times. As adventures go, confronting a dreaded vegetable is probably lower on the danger scale than, say, herding an ill-tempered goat. There is, however, less of a chance of spontaneous vomiting with the goat. Let us identify our enemy: broccoli. Even the [...]
