I featured these Bourbon chicken wings over at Craft Magazine a few weeks ago. They are simple to make, and are devilishly good with a fresh parsley and green tomato dip.
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Gardening
Bourbon Chicken Wings
Garden Basics: CD Scarecrow
The summer months herald the return of an old adversary for the vegetable gardener. Keeping hungry young birds from snacking on your potentially prize winning peas can become a near obsession with some people, but I prefer to take a more laid back approach to the problem.
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Gardening: The Double-Barrelled Greenhouse
For some time, I have been taunted by the gap between my two greenhouses. When I broke one of the windows, I decided to make the best of a bad situation by inventing the double-barrelled greenhouse.
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Essential Reading: Made by Hand, Mark Frauenfelder
After seeing Mark Frauenfelder talk at the Maker Faire, I had expected this book to be a whistle stop tour of the 'Good Life' - a snapshot of the maker culture in digest form. In actuality, the book proved to be much more than this. By the end of the first couple...
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Garden Basics: Salad Leaves
You can grow salad greens and pea shoots even if you don’t have a garden. A small trough or a few pots on the window sill is all you need to get a regular crop of salad leaves throughout the summer months. Keep picking away at the salad leaves, and young shoots will grow...
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Garden Basics: Potatoes
A potato is a many-splendored thing, but you could be forgiven for thinking it was rather plain. That is of course unless you have visited the fantastic Love Potatoes website, from the potato council (no, really). The site has lots of useful information about the not-so-humble spud, including an excellent list of potato varieties...
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