Re: healthy eating

January 5, 2009

Okay!!!! I now get it.

Only use the spinner at the end of the sprouting cycle. Before my sprouts go

into the fridge!!!

Do you put your beans and peas in a salad spinner (before you are ready to put

them away I mean)?????

I did this, and it made no difference. So I just put some paper napkins over

them until they were a bit drier. Then I popped the whole thing in the fridge.

Then I sauteed some of my sprouts, put them in a mixture and made patties. Oh

my god, the colors of those patties.

Melody

Re: healthy eating

Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2009 11:20:53 -0500

I have a question about the sprouting of various beans. I've been

doing this for about 2 months now with great results.

But..... when I rinse and drain them (can I use the salad spinner to

do this). It would realy get them drier.

And if I can't do the salad spinner for the 3 or so days it takes

them to sprout, then when I have the last day, and I give them a good

rinse and when I'm draining them....well, THEN CAN I PUT THEM IN THE

SALAD SPINNER and then put them in the fridge.

I notice that when I do my alfalfa this way (after the final rinse)

that my alfalfa is much drier before putting them in a bowl and

storing them in the fridge.

I was just wondering if you can do the same with the beans and

lentils. I'm thinking " what if putting beans and lentils in the salad

spinner might hurt the beans or lentils?? that spinning them might do

some damage or crush them, or SOMETHING??

So do any of you salad spinning users ever do the final drain in your

salad spinner? (for the beans and lentils, I mean).

Thanks much

Melody

January 5, 2009

On 1/5/09, Melody Lubart <eliz7212@...> wrote:

>

> Well, a cucumber has seeds inside. Is that a fruit also?

Yes.

Also squashes are botanically fruit though classified as culinary vegetables.

Sparrow

January 5, 2009

I'll bet you could sell those on ebay!

Re: healthy eating

Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2009 16:07:07 -0700

On 1/5/09, Ernest Willingham <99tomatoes@...> wrote:

>

> Sparrow, that's beautiful. I'm going to steal it.

Please do! I stole it from someone else, myself. I'm considering

designing a cross-stitch sampler with that as the motto and framing

it

behind glass to hang in the kitchen. :-)

Sparrow

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On 1/5/09, Ernest Willingham <99tomatoes@...> wrote:

>

> I'll bet you could sell those on ebay!

The pattern, maybe. But a hand-made piece of embroidery takes too long

to make to be worth selling. I only make them for myself or for gifts.

Same with my knitting and lace crochet: it takes me a week to make one

lace doily. No way I'm ever going to sell one of those.

Sparrow

January 5, 2009

Is there an empty lot nearby? Find out who owns it a get permission to

start a garden. Contact the Master Gardeners in your county for help.

ew

Re: healthy eating

Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2009 18:08:51 -0500

Hi Lee:

We don't have any community gardens that I know of near where I live.

And we don't drive. I will ask around though. What a neat idea!!!

thanks for the suggestion.

Melody

P.S. I now know that a cranberry is a fruit and a cranberry bean is a

bean. lol

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Farm them out to China?

Re: healthy eating

Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2009 16:21:58 -0700

On 1/5/09, Ernest Willingham <99tomatoes@...> wrote:

>

> I'll bet you could sell those on ebay!

The pattern, maybe. But a hand-made piece of embroidery takes too

long

to make to be worth selling. I only make them for myself or for

gifts.

Same with my knitting and lace crochet: it takes me a week to make

one

lace doily. No way I'm ever going to sell one of those.

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On 1/5/09, Ernest Willingham <99tomatoes@...> wrote:

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> Farm them out to China?

Not with my good name on it! LOL. Have you seen the mass-produced

handwork from China? Yuck!

Funny idea, though. :-)

Sparrow

January 5, 2009

No, I don't live near any empty lots.

I do have a planter box in front of my house. I shall ask my landlord if I can

grow some basil. I love basil.

Melody

Re: healthy eating

Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2009 18:08:51 -0500

Hi Lee:

We don't have any community gardens that I know of near where I live.

And we don't drive. I will ask around though. What a neat idea!!!

thanks for the suggestion.

Melody

P.S. I now know that a cranberry is a fruit and a cranberry bean is a

bean. lol

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I get so mad at American business for what they do. I bought a box of

toothpicks and they kept breaking. I looked at the box and it said 'Made

in China'.

That just about drove me mad. Don't we have wood mills in America any

more? Now I check everything and don't buy 'Made in China " . Too many of

my people out of work.

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Re: healthy eating

Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2009 16:26:27 -0700

On 1/5/09, Ernest Willingham <99tomatoes@...> wrote:

>

> Farm them out to China?

Not with my good name on it! LOL. Have you seen the mass-produced

handwork from China? Yuck!

Funny idea, though. :-)

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EW:

I live in Brooklyn, NY. Every single new store that opens up around the corner

from my house is a chinese run store. Every single one. There are about 2 nail

salons on each block. There are about 20 ninety nine cents store in a 7 block

radius.

There are countless asian markets, grocery stores, whatever. No one speaks

english.

I have to use sign language to ask a question. I speak 5 languages and

unfortunately none of them is chinese.

I don't know what's happening but the chinese are taking over Brooklyn, NY.

Melody

Re: healthy eating

Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2009 16:26:27 -0700

On 1/5/09, Ernest Willingham <99tomatoes@...> wrote:

>

> Farm them out to China?

Not with my good name on it! LOL. Have you seen the mass-produced

handwork from China? Yuck!

Funny idea, though. :-)

Sparrow

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On 1/5/09, Melody Lubart <eliz7212@...> wrote:

>

> I live in Brooklyn, NY. Every single new store that opens up

> around the corner from my house is a chinese run store. Every

> single one. There are about 2 nail salons on each block. There

> are about 20 ninety nine cents store in a 7 block radius.

You forgot wig shops! The type of neighborhood you describe always has

at least 2 or 3 wig shops. :-)

Sparrow

January 5, 2009

Not by me. About 30 blocks away, is the Jewish neighborhood and all the wig

shops are located over there. Not by me.

Brooklyn IS A BIG PLACE. lol

Melody

Re: healthy eating

On 1/5/09, Melody Lubart <eliz7212@...> wrote:

>

> I live in Brooklyn, NY. Every single new store that opens up

> around the corner from my house is a chinese run store. Every

> single one. There are about 2 nail salons on each block. There

> are about 20 ninety nine cents store in a 7 block radius.

You forgot wig shops! The type of neighborhood you describe always has

at least 2 or 3 wig shops. :-)

Sparrow

January 6, 2009

On 1/5/09, Melody Lubart <eliz7212@...> wrote:

>

> Not by me. About 30 blocks away, is the Jewish neighborhood

> and all the wig shops are located over there. Not by me.

Ah, those are different wig shops than the Asian ones. Those are where

the frum Jewish housewives get their sheitels.

I'm surprised your Asian district doesn't have tons of wig shops.

Every Asian district in every city and town I've lived in does wigs

bigtime.

> Brooklyn IS A BIG PLACE. lol

Well, New York City is one place I haven't lived. And the last time I

visited was about thirty years ago.

Sparrow

January 6, 2009

Hey Melody,

I did a Google search on community gardens in NYC and found some

interesting information. This website lets you search for gardens in

your neighborhood,

http://www.oasisnyc.net/gardens/cenycmapsearch.asp

If they are all too far away you could still take a bus trip down

there some spring day. I personally can't observe another person's

garden without learning something.

Lee

On Jan 6, 2009, at 1:16 AM, Melody Lubart wrote:

> Brooklyn IS A BIG PLACE. lol

January 6, 2009

try http://www.moregardens.org/node/12 this is the list for the community

gardens in Brooklyn... there are lots and lots... there must be a community

garden close to anyone in Brooklyn although I don't really know... but I used to

go swimming in the St Hotel about 50 years ago with my father ... there

were no gardens there then but maybe there are now!

> Brooklyn IS A BIG PLACE. lol

January 6, 2009

Hi Lee:

How kind you are. I did a search. Nothing in my neighborhood or even close to

it. I can't take buses because I'm disabled and the people on the bus

(especially teenagers and their backpacks), well, it's too dangerous.

but I have my sprouts, and my beans, and I'm thinking of buying an aero-garden

so I can grow tomatoes on my dining room table. I really want one of those.

Have to save for it.

Thanks so much.

Melody

Re: healthy eating

Hey Melody,

I did a Google search on community gardens in NYC and found some

interesting information. This website lets you search for gardens in

your neighborhood,

http://www.oasisnyc.net/gardens/cenycmapsearch.asp

If they are all too far away you could still take a bus trip down

there some spring day. I personally can't observe another person's

garden without learning something.

Lee

On Jan 6, 2009, at 1:16 AM, Melody Lubart wrote:

> Brooklyn IS A BIG PLACE. lol

January 6, 2009

I wrote to the Community Gardens people (they actually have people that answer

your emails). Here's what they just wrote back to me!!!

---------------------------------------------------------------------------

,

Community gardens are plots of land that people share for gardening. They are

organized in many ways but usually each community gardener has a small plot of

land to garden and also helps in the general care of the garden and in running

the garden.

Some of the gardens listed on OASIS are no longer active. We are only able to

update the information once a year. Some are also school gardens which are used

mostly by the students.

Unfortunately there aren't any gardens close to where you live. Most are in

areas where there was vacant land that the community gardeners received

permission to garden.

----------------------------------------------------------------------------

So at least I did try. lol

Melody

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Melody~ Yes, I do think the Aero-garden is cool, and I also wanted one when

I first saw it. But they set it up so that you have to use *their* seed

pods, and it is incredibly expensive to buy their seed pod refills.

Thia

On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 10:54 AM, Melody Lubart <eliz7212@...> wrote:

> I'm thinking of buying an aero-garden so I can grow tomatoes on my

> dining room table. I really want one of those. Have to save for it.

>

January 6, 2009

Oh, I didn't know that.

I''m not buying it without doing more research.

Thanks much

Melody

Re: healthy eating

Melody~ Yes, I do think the Aero-garden is cool, and I also wanted one when

I first saw it. But they set it up so that you have to use *their* seed

pods, and it is incredibly expensive to buy their seed pod refills.

Thia

On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 10:54 AM, Melody Lubart <eliz7212@...> wrote:

> I'm thinking of buying an aero-garden so I can grow tomatoes on my

> dining room table. I really want one of those. Have to save for it.

>

January 6, 2009

Hi Everyone

I have been enjoying reading your e-mails for about a year now and don't often

participate but feel I must share my experience.

I live in Houston TX. My ancestors have been in America since 1724 when the

first Lutheran ministers came to Penna. so I am as American as anyone. There

is a great China town here in Houston. It is safe clean and friendly. (We have

other immigrant communities in Houston where I would not dare visit) All Asians

nationalities are represented with a large Chinese Vietnamese Korean population.

I love Asian culture and have learned so much from them. For example I suffered

with severe tendinitis for over a year and did not receive much relief from my

family doctor. I am afraid of cortisone side effects. After 1-1/2 years I went

to a Chinese doctor who did message, herbs and acupuncture. Within 4 weeks I was

completely cured. Wow. There are allot of Asian vegetarian restaurants. Maybe

because of the Buddhist culture. I always get fresh sprouts and greens with my

Vietnamese meals. Their food is excellent. I remember the very first Chinese

market to

open in Houston about 20 years ago since then they have built their own city.

Its amazing how industrious and hard working they are. I have seen no

other people come and do so well and we have all groups in international

Houston. It is only my opinion but, so far, I am really glad they are here.

I also would like to say I think Sparrow is a beautiful name. I always like to

see her e-mails.

Happy New Year everyone.

Terry H.

>

> Farm them out to China?

Not with my good name on it! LOL. Have you seen the mass-produced

handwork from China? Yuck!

Funny idea, though. :-)

Sparrow

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Don't get me wrong. I, myself, have gone into the chinese acupuncture store and

bought Tiger Balm (the authentic stuff). I also had some bladder problems and I

went in and the first thing the guy said was " show me your tongue " .

I'll never forget that.

The point I'm making is that no one speaks english in any of these stores. It's

impossible to communicate with them. Believe me I've tried. I went into many

chinese vegetable stores because I wanted to learn about the various produce.

Well, every time I would point to a vegetable and ask what the name was, they

would just shrug. I'm losing out on some great stuff.

I did manage to find out the name of one vegetable. I looked it up on the

interent. It's kohlrabi. The chinese man called it Holly Balls.

I meant no offense. But I wish they would learn english so I could communicate

and learn about their produce (and other stuff to).

Melody

Re: healthy eating

Hi Everyone

I have been enjoying reading your e-mails for about a year now and don't often

participate but feel I must share my experience.

I live in Houston TX. My ancestors have been in America since 1724 when the

first Lutheran ministers came to Penna. so I am as American as anyone. There is

a great China town here in Houston. It is safe clean and friendly. (We have