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Our little patch of 4 plants absolutely exploded. They are so crammed together and we got weeks worth of berries. To the point were we were throwing them out and gave up on picking them. We could of made preserves or something like that, but I figured if I blended them up and froze them into cubes I could enjoy home grown strawberries for months to come. They work and taste great. No need to add sugar at all. We are going to cut them back big time for next year. Might set up another patch too. They are so good right off the vine.

Chompasaur.us started in a SCS IRC discussion I believe. I guess I was not around that time. It is a few of us folk who eat food, a few who make food, and folks who find articles about food. I am guessing if you want you can post on there too.

I hear you saying, butt Bork, you already have your critically acclaimed food blog memakefood, why spread yourself so thin…. what if it hurts your award winning blog? Fear not. I will post the same crap on all three sites because I am a web posting whore

Our strawberry patch is insane this year. It all started with 4 plants 3 years ago and now I am not sure what we are going to do with all of them. Prob just have to eat them

We built a good fence around the patch and there were a few that peeked out through and that is where we found this fella. It is the only one red right now. It was amazing.

Well I said I would keep you updated. first post

Seems the transition to hydroponic has caused quite the shock. It makes sense. Going from a cooler and pretty dry soil to soaked in nutrient rich water at a warmer temp is quite the change. Not to mention I had to hack the rhizome and roots to get them to fit in the little aerogarden things. A lot of the big leaves have wilted and needed to be cut off. Our guess was 1/2 would make it and it seems to be what it will be.

There are lots of baby strawberry buds forming from the flowers. Will see what happens. The aerogarden is a fun toy and we will make the best of it. Right now we have herbs rocking in outdoor planters so growing them indoors is not all that usefull. If the strawberries do not work out we will get some flowers kicking till fall when we need fresh herbs once again.

Here is the pic from the day they went in. Seems the difference in the pics is not that much, but from what we see they looked so much happier back then.

Got a post over on MMF and some emails from Chef Todd. I had submitted a chicken meal and he put it on his site. It is for the chicken and chilies dish.

If you can head on over there and comment and rate it. His e-zine is informative and worth signing up for.

This guy is really awesome. His site I hate cooking recipes is awesome. Not going to find much for recipes there though. What you do find is a professional cook showing you cooking techniques. He has 160 videos so far an all within 2 months. Quick, full of info, and entertaining. It seems he is doing all the video by himself with a webcan.

I was looking into taking a few cooking classes, searched around and did not find too much here in Lincoln. There is an Indian cooking class at SCC I might take, but chef Todd is pretty much all I need. I started off with some of his sauce vids to see if I am doing my rouxs correctly. I do pretty good, but learned even more little tricks from him. His knife vids are great. I am going to start sharpening my own from his advise.

Omnomicon is a really cool site. Filled with pics and delicious looking food that covers a broad range of stuff.

No Recipes is pretty cool as well.

So on the food front at home. We ate at Vincenzo’s a few weeks back and she got an asiago chicken pasta dish and asked why ours never tastes as good. Well when I make white sauces at home I do not use heavy cream, I use milk, and I try to cut down on butter and other things to make it at least a bit more healthy. But I am going to try and make one of those killer sauces here soon. There is one condition though. We must have salads for dinner the night before and after. That is fair I think.

Lulaeats is a food blog run by a sorta relative. Looks like there is some nummy stuff there.

I have a 1 year old kiddo who is a vegetarian, health nut. What can I say, she took after her momma! This is a day by day, meal by meal guide for vegetarian families or omnivorous families who want to bring a bit of nutrition back into their lives. Please email me recipes that you love! I have aspirations of opening a yoga studio and writing a cook book….