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Everett McDonald
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- Where do you live and garden?
- Duncan, SC
- How long have you been growing food?
- forever!
- Favorite foods:
- Vegetables of all kinds
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It's Garlic Planting Time In the South
who planted it for the first time this year, but I'm sure some people do. I planted mine this
week, October 20th. I have planted it as late as thanksgiving, (end of November) and it did okay.
Garlic is one of my favorite things to grow. It's quite easy and nothing seems to bother it.
I usually plant about 120 cloves eight inches apart in three rows. Each clove pushed into
the prepared ground just deep enough… Continue
Posted on October 22, 2009 at 9:44pm — 2 Comments
Vegetable Gardeners....
Posted on October 8, 2009 at 4:53pm — 1 Comment
Cowpeas, Field Peas, Southern Peas.....
have been cultivated by the Egyptians since about 2500 BC.
They came to the United States with the slave trade and before the
Civil War were grown mostly by slaves and poor white people.
After the war they became more popular and are now considered by
many as a traditional southern food. Some of the old timers I've talked
to remember growing them on the farm, eating them fresh in summer,
then pulling the plants, hanging them i… Continue
Posted on September 26, 2009 at 8:20pm — 10 Comments
"This is Blood to the Soil"
in Tyngsboro Massachusetts. It was spring and I tilled up a spot 60 X 40 in the back
yard. About that same time my dad, working as foreman of the Lowell Cemetery had
a crew of portuguese immigrants dethatching lawns. After removing all the dead grass
from a lawn they'd pile it on a dump truck and dispose of it in the cemetery dump.
One of the immigrants, Ebon Lorenzo finally took my father aside and told him… Continue
Posted on September 12, 2009 at 3:13pm — 7 Comments
Comment Wall (3 comments)
- At 9:16am on November 15, 2009,
Salma Kamal said… - Hi! Mcdonald.About Mughlai food.
The Muslims from western Asia brought the Mughlai cuisines to India in the 12th century when Mughal rulers conquered a large portion of India(now India and Pakistan)
During the Mughal dynasty, these dishes were prepared for the Mughal Emperors for elegant dining with dry fruits and nuts.
The Mughals brought their rich, aromatic food culture in Indo-Pakistan, which is now an important part of the Indo-Pakistan culinary culture. The Mughals have also changed the country’s cooking by merging Middle Eastern cuisine with Indo-Pakistan spices and ingredients to give the most beautiful Mughlai cuisine. The Mughal influence on Indian food is immense as these are pretty spicy and have unique fragrance. The cooking method includes lots of milk and cream with exotic spices, nuts and dried fruits to make it rich and spicy. Biryani, Korma, Palau and Pasendi are some of the famous Mughlai cuisine. The Mughlai cuisine is full of rich gravies, pilafs and non-vegetarian foods such as kebabs, along with the fruits like apricots, peaches, plums and melons.
Each of the Muslim rulers offered something or the other to make Indian food the potpourri of spice, taste, and flavor. When Babur invaded India he brought his stylish food habits such as grilled meats along with different varieties of fruits and nuts from Central Asia. His son Humayun continued this tradition and also introduced a new tradition of rice-based pilaus and using of fruits and nuts in the meat stews in India.
Marriages of Mughal rulers to several Indian Rajput princesses added a new dimension to the Mughal cuisines. The reigns of Jahangir and Shah Jahan marked the evolvement of bountiful dishes in Indian cuisine. In the mean time, the Nizams of Hyderabad developed Biryani as their own style of cooking, which is now considered as one of the main dishes in indo-Pakistan
- At 8:07pm on November 4, 2009,
Kristi Birchenough said… - Thanks E!!! Loved your pictures!!!
- At 4:28pm on October 19, 2009,
Maggie said… - Hi Everett, welcome to KGI.
Your garden looks fantastic, we only have a small veggie patch, we cram so much in it looks a bit like an edible patchwork quilt.
We are just starting to plant out the seedlings we grew outside through winter.
we have mild winters compared to lots of you other KGI members.
No snow here in this part of Auss!
Your blog articles are great!
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I used to have a tumbler that we made from a wine-barrel but
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