Food Storage Recipe - Broccoli Rice

Simple recipe that is great with anything.

NEED:

2 cups of white rice

1/2 cup of chopped, fresh broccoli

1 tablespoon butter

1/2 teaspoon salt

a bit of finely diced onion, not too much

4 cups of water

Steam the broccoli and onion in a bit of water for about 8 minutes.

In another pot start the rice in the 4 cups of water. Add the butter and salt to it while it is cooking.

Bring the rice to a boil and cook, uncovered , for 15 to 20 minutes.

Add the broccoli to the rice and stir. 

Gardening Information - Creating Cold Frames and Hot Tents

Depending on where you live you may need to find ways to extend the growing season. In the higher elevations winter may come early and stay late. the freezing temperatures make getting a garden in the ground early a futile effort. There are some techniques you can use to get more growing season. What I'm talking about is creating a micro climate for your plants, commonly called a hot house or green house. However you don't need a big expensive structure to sprout plants and give them a head start. Using inexpensive plastic sheeting and some stakes you can control the climate of some small areas where your sprouting beds are located.

Though it can be a bit of a challenge but the pay off is a larger more successful and productive garden. In early spring when the weather is starting to get nice but still less than optimal you can make a cold frame. A cold frame is a box frame of a box with a lid, everywhere there would be a solid surface you install 6 mil clear poly sheeting. When the sun hits the plastic the heat gets trapped in the cold frame making a hot house environment where you can place potted plants.

Use a saucer in the kitchen and place a folded paper towel on it. Make it wet, open the fold and pour in your seeds, radish, carrot, corn, whatever you want to grow could be flowers. Set the saucer on the window sill after pouring off the excess water. You will need to watch and make sure the paper stays damp to near wetness and in a few days the seeds will germinate and start to grow.

Plant your sprouts in used egg cartons, the old gray paper type, because they absorb moisture whereas the Styrofoam egg cartons will not. fill the egg carton with potting soil add some water and place in the cold frame. You may need to transplant them into small two and three inch containers as they grow. By the time you can till the soil and plant you should have some 3 to 5 inch plants or larger to go in the ground and you've pulled a fast one on mother nature.

Your cold frame/ hot house could get hot enough you need to place a shade over it in the hottest time of the day so as not to cook you plants or you can open the lid a crack to let hot air escape, you just need to tend it, like anything else.

If you've already got some plants in the ground and you don't want them to freeze you can drive in a stake next to the plant and cut a large circle of plastic poke a small hole in the center of the plastic and slide it onto the stick then take the outer edge and secure it to the ground with a little soil or some stones use a stapler to attach the top to the stake. It looks like a t-pee when your done and it will trap heat, moisture and sunlight inside where the plant is. Again watch it doesn't get too hot.

With some creative use of plastic you can make micro climates that help you get ahead start on the growing season. Hope you have a remarkable garden experience today.

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Chips: Most Delicious Homemade Chips Recipes

Chips: Most Delicious Homemade Chips Recipes: Deliciously Seasoned Potato, Sweet Potato, Vegetable, Fruit, Flour and Legume Chips (Delicious Recipes Book 4) was a free book for the kindle at the time of this posting.

Love potato chips? We all do of course. But this love comes with a heavy price tag. Not only to our wallats but also our health. Today's store bought potato chips are loaded with saturated fat and GMO ingredients.

Making your own chips at home is easy convenient and healthy. This recipe book is filled with mouth watering recipes you and your whole family is going to love.

Chip recipes have never been easier. ANYONE can make them. Tried true ad tested you are going to fall in love with the recipes contained in this book

Here Is A Preview Of Some of The Recipes Contained in This Book...

• Cheesy Herb Potato Chips
• Chili Cheese Corn Chips
• Cheezy Bacon Baked Chips
• Zest Carrot Chips
• Spiced Apple Chips
• Crumbled Avocado Chips and Lemon Dipping Sauce
• Crunchy Cinnamon Banana Chips
• Orange Thyme Sweet Potato Chips
• Much, much more!

Dutch Oven Cookbook for Meals and Desserts

Dutch Oven Cookbook for Meals and Desserts: A Dutch Oven Camping Cookbook Full with Delicious Dutch Oven Recipes was a free book for the kindle when this post was written.Dutch Oven Cookbook for Meals and Desserts is comprised of 25 easy-to-cook recipes of both savory and sweet dishes.

The book has proven that the Dutch oven “can be used in multiple ways.”

The thing that is most inviting is that in most Dutch oven recipes, all you have to do is dump all or most of the ingredients and let the Dutch Oven do the trick.

So, if you have been handed down one of these wonderful kitchen equipment then grab this Dutch oven camping cookbook at once so that you can make the most of it.

Basic Survival and Communications Skills in the Aftermath

Basic Survival and Communications Skills in the Aftermath was a free kindle book wt the time of this posting.

 Nuclear war looms, an errant asteroid is headed for Earth, Yellowstone is showing signs of an impending explosion. There will be survivors. Are you going to be one of them? If so, how are you going to survive and contact your friends and loved ones?

Even though the world has no set time of destruction and that day might never come, or perhaps next Thursday while you're on your way home from work could be the very day the killing blow comes. Will you be prepared?

Join the author in an imaginative exploration of several scenarios of "What Might Happen" and practical ideas on mitigation of the "Aftermath". Survival isn't always about stocking food and water in a mountain hideaway, collecting the best knives, guns and most ammo. Discover the important information you've been missing! This book was written specifically for the Kindle devices in mind.