Mar 30
Making your own chicken stock chicken stock offers a better return than an investment in the stock market. Well maybe not, but since the main ingredient, chicken bones, would normally go to waste it is practically free and compared to store bought chicken stocks it is a huge saving. The only real cost of making …
Mar 28
I subscribe to the old fashioned method of preparing asparagus, i.e. snapping. Snapping the asparagus stem between your fingers near the base ensures that you are left with a tender piece in one hand and a woodier piece in the other. However, there is more waste with this method, instead of just cutting off and …
Mar 27
Since my last post about re-growing green onions (spring onions), I have been experimenting with other members of the Allium family such as baby leeks and garlic. The word Allium is Latin for garlic, and all members of the plant family are edible including the stems and bulbs. They all produce Cysteine Sulfoxide which gives …
Feb 15
I don’t know why it hasn’t occurred to me before, that green onions (also known as spring onions, green shallots, onion sticks, scallions, long onions, salad onions, syboes, baby onions, precious onions, or yard onions) are just like any other bulb that you would plant in the garden. And similarly they re-grow each year. I …
