Posted on 05/26/2017 5:44:18 PM PDT by greeneyes
Lady Bender makes 5 or 6 half pints of strawberry syrup and most of it I put over her homemade ice-cream
Well that is interesting about the evergreen corn...
Well that is interesting about the evergreen corn...
You must be as big as a house! Nothing like homemade ice cream. I used to make it out of our fresh goats milk. Only kidding about the house remark. She is quite the cook. If she is on FR she might enjoy the weekly cooking thread.
It’s bad enough that she is on Face Book. Heaven help me if she were on FR...
That sounds good. I can’t get my ice cream maker to work, but neither of us need to eat the carbs anyway. Although the occasional pancake with a spot of syrup is pretty tasty.
Way too much sugar for me but how much can it hurt me at 84...
Looks yummy! And I agree about the sugar.
Well, in one month, I drastically cut all carbs, added fat - mostly from grass fed dairy, butter, olive oil and nuts, and added protein (mostly animal protein) to my diet.
Huge change in my lipid profile. Cardiologist could not believe the huge change in so short a time. I’m not concerned at all about the cholesterol per se, but the ratio of HDL and Triglycerides is the best indicator-and those are the two best improvements.
For the first time in 20 years my HDL was not subpar. Turns out that fat is needed to get HDL, so all the low fat advice misses the mark. Healthy fats are needed and that includes things like real butter from grass fed cows, because vitamin K2 is found only in animal fats that have not been loaded up with grains.
Much of the clogged arteries are due to calcium not being regulated into the bones - K2 is needed for that. The sugar was wearing out my pancreas and I was developing insulin resistance and felt like I was starving to death all the time.
When I keep carb intake low with each meal, I feel better, and I don’t feel like I’m starving between meals. Still, I do eat the occasional doughnut or piece of pie. Then I feel lousy and hungry for several days.
I think once anyone reaches the age of 70, they should probably just eat whatever they want - most doctors don’t even know what we should be eating anyway. LOL
Trying to save money for a good sized tiller. Had one some years ago, but pretty much sold or gave away all my large-ish machines when I thought I was going to lose the house; well, I'm still in the house, but my tiller is gone. I think a tiller is what I need in order to turn under all the horehound weeds and make ready for some cover crop. I have just two acres, and not all of it is weed-infested poor soil - just the part around the house in front of all the windows (I have lots of windows), and the kitchen window view is the most depressing. Plow and repeat. Also thinking about putting up a simple hoop greenhouse. That is, after I cut down a path to it. I do not fancy wading knee-deep through thick horehound seed pods to get to the greenhouse.
That’s my Dad on the tractor.
On-call means I have to be available 24/7 for any IT troubles that can’t be handled by the help desk folks. It was fairly peaceful this weekend. Only had a couple minor issues with the nurse paging system.
We were really fortunate with the crazy weather that rolled through. Had lots of rain at the house Saturday afternoon, but none of the gale-force winds that others got. It was all around, but there was a gap in it when the squall line passed. Daughter was feeding horses at the therapeutic riding center 15 miles SW of our house and said that she thought it was going to take the roof off of the arena building.
I don’t till anything - too much work. Weeds I pull by hand, or smother them with cardboard or trash bags. Once smothered out, I’ll put down a layer of newspaper and cover that with the dirt of about 3-6” then plant my crop/cover crop.
We were lucky here with the weather too, but there was all kinds of bad stuff all around us. I read that somewhere had baseball size hail - or maybe it was softball size.
I was trying to find out about the Springfield area, but never did find out anything. Did you hear anything about Springfield? The last time there was hail there, I didn’t find out in time to get a new roof- every one else on the block did.
Come to think of it, I have lots of cardboard and trash bags!
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