SPRING FLOWER SHOW

Surprizing (and disappointing) as it may be the BOSTON FLOWER SHOW (a/k/a the NEW ENGLAND FLOWER SHOW) has been cancelled! Funding appears to be the main issue and if you would like to help the Mass Horticultural Society out for 2010, you can visit their site at http://www.masshort.org/New-England-Spring-Flower-Show.
The good news to all this is that The 16th Annual Rhode Island Spring Flower & Garden Show will take place THIS WEEKEND, February 19-22, 2009 at the Rhode Island Convention Center. For all information follow this link. http://www.flowershow.com/. These shows are always welcomed by winter-weary New Englanders and are well worth your support.

MAN CANNOT LIVE BY VEGETABLES ALONE

The next time you're in the mood to kick your salad up to the stratosphere try replacing your same-old-same-old bottled dressing with your own, home-made GARLIC AIOLI. Green, pasta, rice or bean salad - this is well worth a try. Be sure you have a strong stomach, though. Not everyone can tolerate raw egg &/or raw garlic. If you can, you are probably either deeply detoxed or COMPLETLY toxified. Anyway, it goes like this:

GARLIC AIOLI

6-8 large cloves of raw garlic

pinch of salt

2 Tablespoons of dijon mustard

2 Tablesspoons of fresh squeezed lemon juice

3/4 cup of oil (olive preferred, canola ok)

1 raw (farm fresh) egg

In a food processor mince the garlic and add salt, mustard, lemon juice. Slowly (in a thin drizzle) pour olive/canola oil and continue to process on high. When the mixture thickens (to your preferred consistency) add the egg and continue blending. Pour or spoon mixure into a serving bowl or toss with salad or pasta. Enjoy.

HOW TO BOIL AN EGG

Ever heard someone called 'so dumb they couldn't boil an egg?' Funny as that may sound, there really is - like everything else - a right & a wrong way to do it.

And here's something even stranger than that. If you've ever said to yourself, 'gee sometimes when I peel a hard-boiled egg the shell comes right off, and sometimes it really clings and makes a !#@^*!! mess... I wonder why...' Well, if you're the one who boiled the egg, then YOU are so dumb you can't even boil an egg!

But not to worry, here's the secret: Get the water up to boiling temp before you put your egg(s) in. That's it! Premature egg placement in cold water will not save you time, when you factor in how much time you will waste peeling.

BTW, once your water is boiling the following results will be rendered with these times: Soft-boiled, 5 minutes; Hard-boiled, 12 minutes.

If you didn't know this, you've just learned something for the day! If you did know this, you've just wasted you time...but check back again soon, next time we'll have something for smarter folks like you!