Happy Birthday Al Kid.
hear him and see him at: www.alexandervittum.com
Monday, January 29, 2007
Wednesday, January 24, 2007
...Happy Birthday Cleave...
check out this pleasantly aggresive friend of ours at www.kateandsarah.com
Happy Birthday Susan!
Well, we are starting a new project on The Herbal Gurggle. Its called..."Its your birthday!” Now, everyone must remember that if we miss your birthday its not because we don't like you, but more that we forgot or we are not around the WIFI capabilities. The best part of the project will be gathering the latest or oldest picture of you from our massive archive and letting millions of people know that its your special day. Now, the moment you all have been waiting for, the lucky first contestant is...Susan Agave. Happy Birthday Susan!
Not everyone will receive a prize with their birthday greeting but Susan will. Here is a well developed recipe from .....
Neil's kitchen, the best biscuit recipe west of the Mississippi:
The most important things to remember when making these little pieces of haven is:
1. Do not kneed more then 10 times
2. Use enough liquid even if you think it is too sticky
3. Remove from oven before they are too brown
and finally,
4. Have fun! It’s only biscuits. (I learned that from my parents)
Ingredients:
2 cup - Spelt flour
1/4 tea - baking soda
2 1/2 tea - baking powder
1 tea - salt
2 tea - honey, agave nectar, or sugar if you have to
1/4 cup - cold pressed coconut oil (found in most natural food stores...search for a bargin b/c it can be $$)
1/4 cup - Butter (please don't hurt yourself by using margarine)
1 cup whole milk
1/4 cup - yogurt or use 2 tbs - milk with 2 tbs - lemon juice (this gives a buttermilk effect)
Preheat oven to 425 degrees
Lightly Grease cookie sheet with butter, not margarine.
Mix all dry ingredients together including un-melted coconut oil and butter. Simply slice slivers of the hard butter and oil into the mixture so that it appears chunky. Add all wet ingredients last. Mix with a spoon until dough forms, then transfer to a lightly flour surface to kneed. Remember to only knead until dough forms. The dough will be very wet and sticky but this is where you can ruin the whole experience if you add too much flour. Use just enough extra flour to be able to kneed the dough and roll it out. I believe that rolling the dough out should be done with your hands. Push the dough with your hands until the dough is about an inch thick. Use a cutter or old tin can to cut the biscuits and remember not to twist as you cut but push directly downward. Place each biscuit in the pan starting with the center making a wagon wheel shape making sure that each biscuit is touching. Now, the final touch is a little butter on top for browning purposes.
Not everyone will receive a prize with their birthday greeting but Susan will. Here is a well developed recipe from .....
Neil's kitchen, the best biscuit recipe west of the Mississippi:
The most important things to remember when making these little pieces of haven is:
1. Do not kneed more then 10 times
2. Use enough liquid even if you think it is too sticky
3. Remove from oven before they are too brown
and finally,
4. Have fun! It’s only biscuits. (I learned that from my parents)
Ingredients:
2 cup - Spelt flour
1/4 tea - baking soda
2 1/2 tea - baking powder
1 tea - salt
2 tea - honey, agave nectar, or sugar if you have to
1/4 cup - cold pressed coconut oil (found in most natural food stores...search for a bargin b/c it can be $$)
1/4 cup - Butter (please don't hurt yourself by using margarine)
1 cup whole milk
1/4 cup - yogurt or use 2 tbs - milk with 2 tbs - lemon juice (this gives a buttermilk effect)
Preheat oven to 425 degrees
Lightly Grease cookie sheet with butter, not margarine.
Mix all dry ingredients together including un-melted coconut oil and butter. Simply slice slivers of the hard butter and oil into the mixture so that it appears chunky. Add all wet ingredients last. Mix with a spoon until dough forms, then transfer to a lightly flour surface to kneed. Remember to only knead until dough forms. The dough will be very wet and sticky but this is where you can ruin the whole experience if you add too much flour. Use just enough extra flour to be able to kneed the dough and roll it out. I believe that rolling the dough out should be done with your hands. Push the dough with your hands until the dough is about an inch thick. Use a cutter or old tin can to cut the biscuits and remember not to twist as you cut but push directly downward. Place each biscuit in the pan starting with the center making a wagon wheel shape making sure that each biscuit is touching. Now, the final touch is a little butter on top for browning purposes.
Sunday, January 21, 2007
SNOWY RETURN TO COLORADO
Well, for the last five weeks it has snowed every weekend in Boulder. Nights have been cold dropping down into negative digits but temps warm up during the day for fun activities as snowshoeing and job searching.
Amy shoveling out the van so she can go to school
Amy shoveling out the van so she can go to school
BACK TO THE MEDANO-ZAPATA
Traveled over the mountains and down to the San Luis Valley to visit good ol' Jeff at the ranch. While staying, we experienced a nice heat wave of 20 degrees and by the time we departed the car was plowing through 1.5 ft. of snow.
Chato in the back with new daughter Maybeline...aka... pooper in Neilios room
Buffalo hides curing with salt from the November round-up
The Heifers (cows) and Buffalo were kind enough to destroy the fence on a cowboy’s day off. Only 600 acres to repair!
Here is a scene through La Veta Pass on our way back to Boulder
Chato in the back with new daughter Maybeline...aka... pooper in Neilios room
Buffalo hides curing with salt from the November round-up
The Heifers (cows) and Buffalo were kind enough to destroy the fence on a cowboy’s day off. Only 600 acres to repair!
Here is a scene through La Veta Pass on our way back to Boulder
Wednesday, January 17, 2007
New Address Alert
New Address for our new lives:
3217 Broadway
Boulder, CO 80304
We found a cute 2 bedroom house, with a backyard that will be great for working and studying from home. Even has a garage with a left to store all our mounds of crap that can no longer fit in the honey wagon. Pics coming soon of all the snow and the house. We are currently just house sitting for the man who has not moved out, but already left town. Lease starts Feb 1, so we have a little more time to be unsettled before we can really move it. Its a start.
School is great. I love it. I am so glad I came!
We went back down to the ranch this weekend and it was blanketed in snow. Here is a false sense of sunshine from this summer. The snowy buffalo pics are coming soon.
3217 Broadway
Boulder, CO 80304
We found a cute 2 bedroom house, with a backyard that will be great for working and studying from home. Even has a garage with a left to store all our mounds of crap that can no longer fit in the honey wagon. Pics coming soon of all the snow and the house. We are currently just house sitting for the man who has not moved out, but already left town. Lease starts Feb 1, so we have a little more time to be unsettled before we can really move it. Its a start.
School is great. I love it. I am so glad I came!
We went back down to the ranch this weekend and it was blanketed in snow. Here is a false sense of sunshine from this summer. The snowy buffalo pics are coming soon.
Monday, January 08, 2007
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View of the back yard from our old apartment window -- this is where Neil and I lived for 3 years in NC. The gazebo in the back yard visible through the wall of glass windows.
The backyard of my parents house with rain on the lake. gazebo, pizza oven, dock, patio, garden, etc. wedding here 1.4 years away....get pumped!
The backyard of my parents house with rain on the lake. gazebo, pizza oven, dock, patio, garden, etc. wedding here 1.4 years away....get pumped!
Sunday, January 07, 2007
...around the rosey.....
It's here, the pocket full of posey and all....
The rouse-vittums are offically and totally engaged and well, almost married.
Here is the ring that we had designed for my at Goldworks in Chapel Hill. It's a Mokume-gane (japanese traslation: wood grain) ring, that is a traditiaonal japanese metal art of combinng metals and twisting them around. This is a combo of white, yellow and rose gold with some sterling silver in the mix for the etching details. The etching helps get that oxidized look. 4 little certified conflict free diamonds grace the top. Love it!
The rouse-vittums are offically and totally engaged and well, almost married.
Here is the ring that we had designed for my at Goldworks in Chapel Hill. It's a Mokume-gane (japanese traslation: wood grain) ring, that is a traditiaonal japanese metal art of combinng metals and twisting them around. This is a combo of white, yellow and rose gold with some sterling silver in the mix for the etching details. The etching helps get that oxidized look. 4 little certified conflict free diamonds grace the top. Love it!
NC whirlwind
3 weeks in NC, visiting friends, spending time with the fam and remembering the home land.
Lots of cooking, drinkin and games. Get on the Mexican Train or go to the bone yard.
Back at old CCCC, where i got my sustainable ag and livestock management certificates....good old pittsboro, NC.
Cheryl and Gil pose in front of the remay-ed rows of kale at the Land Lab. Cheryl is the manager of this student farm and CSA project.
Check out the program here:
http://www.cccc.edu/programs/Sustainable_Agriculture.html
So yall thought we were kidding about the poison ivy, hu? Check out this tree....oh, wait those aren't branches at all, they are all poison ivy shoots. This is a classis example of what waits for you in NC, down by the shores of the Rocky River.
Lots of cooking, drinkin and games. Get on the Mexican Train or go to the bone yard.
Back at old CCCC, where i got my sustainable ag and livestock management certificates....good old pittsboro, NC.
Cheryl and Gil pose in front of the remay-ed rows of kale at the Land Lab. Cheryl is the manager of this student farm and CSA project.
Check out the program here:
http://www.cccc.edu/programs/Sustainable_Agriculture.html
So yall thought we were kidding about the poison ivy, hu? Check out this tree....oh, wait those aren't branches at all, they are all poison ivy shoots. This is a classis example of what waits for you in NC, down by the shores of the Rocky River.
"A mozarella, canneloni, mastacholi...... Pizza Ball......!"
Fire up the oven mom.....this is the wood-fired pizza/bread oven that the family built together in 2002.
Neil with the master plan.
Neil with the master plan.
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