Oh man! B&M brown bread is SO GOOD. Toss it on the fire (in the fire at our age) and off again in ten, handle with care, slice with the can top, smother in margarine or butter and drip yourself into paradise... :)

Now I'm hungry for some! :)

For those of us without a spice rack, it's well worth the price. I use that many spices maybe once in ten years (I live on curry and dill thank you), so it is worth two bucks or so to have just enough to do the trick when I want something more complex.

Just one word:

Honeycrisp.

Picked right (when tapped next to your ear, the sound should be clear, crisp...you know! And the idiot who puts fingernails through the skin should be shot on sight.), these are THE BEST apples I think I've ever had. Absolutely incredibly crunchy with juice to wet your shirt that is so good you might suck on your shirt to get it all....A grower friend (sadly not close enough to pull a raid) says to also look for the intensity of yellow in the skin for best flavor; I like my method better, I think.

But all year I hold back a little cash, just waiting for that first sign in the store: HONEYCRISP. And then I go nuts. I buy and eat ten pounds at a time and go back every couple of days for more. I put not-quite-ripes into the plastic produce bags and let them sit in the dark for 2-3 days and then OMG yum.... NEVER refrigerate these apples. Season is relatively short despite the fact that they store well.

Now...heirloom apples are so awesome, it's fantastic to get the chance to buy a real assortment and then sample your little heart out...like I plan to do this next season. Maybe I'll find yet another apple I can't live without! :)

Raised beds with plenty of bunny poo do WONDERS for that issue... :) AND you get worms to fry up as a bonus! :) :) :)

I would rethink the chicken strip jerky treats--regardless of testing results, the ones from China are still linked to dog illnesses and deaths. :(

RAW chicken bones are fine unless your dog is a gulper (in which case feeding frozen is one of several management choices). My coydog will not keep weight on without raw in her diet, so I feed home raised rabbits and beef trim in addition to Costco kibble.

Guess why *I* go to Costco...? LOL! :) yep. Cat food and dog food. Everything else except the pizza and hot dogs is just 'on the way by'!

When I traveled to Puebla in 2004 for the 8th World Rabbit Science Congress, we had a soup that was incredible--but I was never able to get the recipe.

It was either chicken or rabbit (it was hard to tell with some of the dishes, they were all superb) and included the liver and I belive the heart as well as the main meat. Not a clear soup, as I recall.

Does anyone have any ideas on what this might have been?

Muchas gracias,
PA