Our first crops of the season
http://casa-giardino.blogspot.com/2011/06/our-first-crops-of-year.html

Welcome to all new members.

SUSTAINABLE EATING: Means Serving Meals that Are Lower on the Food Chain

In our household, we enjoy lamb, veal and read meat but we also enjoy of the innards of animals like chicken gizzards (cheap, very popular in Europe and Asia, and good for you).


http://casa-giardino.blogspot.com/2010/10/sustainable-eating-means-serving-meals.html

Be part of this “nutritional transformation” by growing your own vegetables. Not enough space for a vegetable garden like mine? No problem. Consider growing vegetables in containers. Nearly any type of vegetable can be grown in pots. From lettuce, tomatoes, peppers and beans. Cucumbers also thrive in containers, especially the compact varieties.

http://casa-giardino.blogspot.com/2011/06/from-dirt-to-kitchen-table.html#links

I cannot imagine my kitchen without hot peppers.

http://casa-giardino.blogspot.com/2011/03/hot-peppers-grow-few-and-heat-things-up.html

I've been getting my seeds from Italy, through a friend in Massachusetts. Don't have a current catalog or address at hand just now, but as soon as I get the new catalog, I'll post the address and information here, for anyone who wants it. :)

Farming in Los Vegas

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kerry-trueman/meet-mario-batalis-las-ve_b_791234.html

It is hard to teach them how to eat well when McDonald and Burger king are the places where most of american eat at least once a week!!!

But we can do it!!!

Sustainable Eating - Learning the Story Behind the Food We Eat

http://casa-giardino.blogspot.com/2010/09/sustainable-eating-means-cooking-from.html

"American taste buds have been jammed on salt, sugar and every conceivable molecular permutation of corn."

Leftover Turkey Burgers

http://casa-giardino.blogspot.com/2010/11/sustainable-eating-leftover-turkey.html#links

The Slow Food movement is trying to help quite a bit on this front.

Hi all. This is one American that's learning to eat well, the Italian way! One way is by growing some of my own vegetables and herbs. I had done some searching on the web, and came across a site that sells seeds imported from Italy. The past two years I have grown my own San Marzano tomatoes, hot and mild Goat Horn peppers and basil and parsley. They've turned out well and I've made sauce from scratch with them... hope to add some more things next spring!