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“I’ve heard people say, “It’s just me, so I don’t cook”.. Are Ya Nutz??   Cooking for One is Fantastic!! – and no one IS more worth it than YOU!  Most homecooked meals are 10-15 minutes to make.  If it’s longer.. open the bottle of Wine!  :) ” — Nunya

Sunday Brunch – Spinach Omelet with thin slices of ham, diced red thai chili, cream cheese, fresh diced tomato and scallions – and fresh sliced  Strawberries

 Never throw away scraps of food when you’re single!  You have an entire   new meal just waiting to happen.  The omelet is 3 eggs with about a Tblsp of Coffeemate creamer in it (because I don’t usually buy milk).  I used a whisk and bowl to mix, had a tsp of melted butter in a medium-hot pan before pouring it in.  The ingredients to the omelet are Spinach with thin slices of ham, diced red thai chili, cream cheese, fresh diced tomato and scallions.

I eat very little meat.  The ham is very thin julienne slices.  I keep it frozen and just shave off about a Tblsp for a kick of flavor, it’s the spinach, chili, tomato and cream cheese that are dominate flavors.

Bad thing about making great tasting food.. is making yourself STOP eating when the plate is empty so ya don’t get FAT.  Also have plates that are smaller than normal dinner plates, so it looks full but you keep portions down – so the size of YOU stays down. –Nunya

 

 

My friend, Ali, not only has a beautiful urban garden, but also the coolest chickens!  Jason, from About An Acre, built a portable chicken coop that can be moved about the yard.  Imagine walking out your backdoor and having fresh eggs from these beautiful girls!

To read the entire article in Times Magazine on edible landscaping and Fritz Haeg, click:  The Incredible, Edible Front Lawn – TIME
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1816764,00.html?artId=1816764?contType=article?chn=us

A grassroots movement towards edible landscaping is taking hold, but it is not really a new concept.  Back in 1942, as the United States emerged from the Great Depression and mobilized for WWII, Agricultural Sec. Claude R. Wickard encouraged Americans to plant what what was then called “Victory Gardens”.   Soon gardens began popping up not just on Americans lawns, but also in unusual places such as a downtown parking lot in New Orleans and a zoo in Portland.  Now, in our modern day and age, we are seeing more and more people returning to the concept of a “useful” lawn of edibles since our economy has been on a downturn.

Los Angeles based architect, Fritz Haeg, launched a campaign back in 7/2005 urging people to trade in their ornamental lawns “for artistic arrangements of organic produce”.

I really hope the concept of edible lawns catches on like wildfire.  Haeg believes, and I agree with him, that the “hyper-manicured lawn” is out of date and “a chemically treated and verdant but nutritionally barren lawn seems wasteful”.  Back in 1943 Americans planted 20.5 million Victory Gardens and grew nearly one-third of the vegetables consumed in our country that year.  I feel we can help ourselves save a buck by doing this, plus we help preserve our earth by reducing chemicals used to grow food and reduce fuel consumption to transport it great distances.  We also eat healthier.  So here’s to edible lawns!

I was fooling around in the paint program–gotta love all those tiny brushes and pencils and paint cans–and I made this funky little banner for my site.  I had alot of fun creating it (ok really I pulled my hair out) but I liked the end result!  Hope you like it too!  

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