Sunday, April 1, 2012
Have You Tried Salt & Straw?
Here's an ice cream store you MUST visit! It's named Salt & Straw, and the flavors may blow your mind.
Kim Malek is the owner and the shoppe has been open since August and here on a windy, cold day, the visitors through the front door didn't end.
I tried several kinds and settled on something conservative: one scoop of Banana with spicy monkey caramel and walnuts in a cup. It had a great taste of bananas and caramel with walnut chunks. The ice cream had a perfect melt. Then I went back for a taste of Pear and Bleu Cheese. It tasted just like pear ice cream with a slight bleu cheese aftertaste. Next I tried Sea Salt ice cream with caramel ribbon. The sea salt enhanced the caramel and satisfied both yearnings for salt and sweet. Next time I will try Arbequina olive oil.
Bev tried Almond brittle with salted grenache ice cream. She's hooked! As I said they've been open since August, but already it's Oprah's favorite ice cream and it's been featured in "The Wall Street Journal" and "The Washington Post" and featured on "Sunday Morning."
Kim Malek is the owner and the shoppe has been open since August and here on a windy, cold day, the visitors through the front door didn't end.
I tried several kinds and settled on something conservative: one scoop of Banana with spicy monkey caramel and walnuts in a cup. It had a great taste of bananas and caramel with walnut chunks. The ice cream had a perfect melt. Then I went back for a taste of Pear and Bleu Cheese. It tasted just like pear ice cream with a slight bleu cheese aftertaste. Next I tried Sea Salt ice cream with caramel ribbon. The sea salt enhanced the caramel and satisfied both yearnings for salt and sweet. Next time I will try Arbequina olive oil.
Bev tried Almond brittle with salted grenache ice cream. She's hooked! As I said they've been open since August, but already it's Oprah's favorite ice cream and it's been featured in "The Wall Street Journal" and "The Washington Post" and featured on "Sunday Morning."
Easter egg basket
Be G-R-E-E-N-er this Easter and make your own egg basket by weaving it from branches, old newspapers or scrab fabric.
Also the egss can be coloured in natural ways, eg. with red cabbage,carrots, onion skin...
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Be Prepared!
NASA has warned us of the dangers of solar storms and the harm that can come to our electrical systems. Mike just read “A Distant Eden” a novel by Lloyd Tackitt that takes us on a journey to Texas during and after a huge solar storm hits earth. The storm ruins our electric grid that moves power across our nation. The storm also wipes out anything electrical; our computers, phones, pumps for water and gasoline and furnaces and the fuses and computers in our cars and trucks and trains and planes. Soon people are running out of water and starving. There are no deliveries of food anymore. The medicines that many need to stay alive are no longer be available. The author writes that in such a situation, 97% of our population would die in less than a year. Very quickly, we are in a survival battle and it’s useful to know how to treat water so it’s potable, how to catch fish using fish traps and how to cook using solar box cookers.
Most of us have experienced power outages for a period of time. Here in the Northwest, we’ve had silver thaws when the trees and power lines are covered in ice and we lose power for hours to a few days. Parts of the country experience floods, tornados, hurricanes and earthquakes and power can be out for weeks or months. I’ve often wondered about generators. Do they plug into the house when they are used for power or do you plug into the generator? I was asked to write something about the subject and consulted the website of Generators A to Z for the answers. I learned that depending our your needs you can plug directly into a generator, like your refrigerator to keep your frozen items frozen or you can have a transfer switch added so you can run your appliances through the circuit breaker. Generator 101 helps you decide whether to you need a conventional generator or inverter generator and the differences. Generator 101 also helps you figure how big of a generator you might need, the fuel, the number of hours it can run. The website has prices for the various kinds of generators.
Reading “A Distant Eden” and familiarizing yourself with solar box cookers and generators could be the difference in you and your family surviving the next disaster.BTW, right now the Kindle edition of "A Distant Eden" is available for 99 cents:
Beautiful Table Design Glass and Unique
So, you can choose the color and shape you like to be placed in one room of your house.
Enjoy..
What Do You Think Of This Historic Victorian Home?
What do you think of this home?
I love the living areas with all their colour! I could really get cozy in those.
Some of the other rooms are not so much to my taste, but it's one fab home.
I hope everyone had a super weekend!
Linda. xox
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I love the living areas with all their colour! I could really get cozy in those.
Some of the other rooms are not so much to my taste, but it's one fab home.
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I hope everyone had a super weekend!
Linda. xox
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