Recipes

I ran the Houston Marathon yesterday! It was a huge event and I'm happy I was able to experience it. I had run the half marathon twice (2008, 2018) but never the full marathon. This was marathon #32 for me. Wow- I have run so many marathons!BackgroundI registered for this race exactly one year ago while I was sick with Covid. I was inspired by seeing so many fast times! Granted, the weather last year was perfect and I knew that Houston weather could be hit-or-miss, but I decided to pull the trigger anyway.The plan was for both Greg and...

  I was going to write a long story. The story of us. That’s what happens when you break a writer’s heart. We write about you. I remember that glorious afternoon when I read you my poems for the first time. They were all about love, heartbreak, and more importantly, about me moving on. I remember you loved them but the words also scared you. You chuckled nervously asking who was the guy I wrote these for. I honestly couldn’t remember. “There have been a lot of heartbreaks, honey, I can’t keep track of them all,” I laughed. But I...

This caramel frosting has all the flavor of the caramel frosting on an old-fashioned caramel cake but in a light, fluffy, and workable texture.It is delicious on yellow or chocolate cake, and it would also be spectacular on an apple cake or spice cake.Add this tasty recipe to your frosting repertoire whenever you need something other than vanilla or chocolate.For ease of browsing, you can find all my icing and frosting recipes in one place. Thank you for visiting! Don’t You Already Have a Caramel Frosting on the Site? Why, yes, I do. I developed my burnt caramel buttercream specifically...

Project Apis m.’s Next Request for Research Proposals for the Healthy Hives Program Mark your calendars! We are pleased to announce a Request for Proposals on behalf of the Healthy Hives research initiative. Focus areas for this request include: NEW: Advancing Tropilaelaps Knowledge NEW: Impacts of pollinator habitat Economic analysis of BMP’s Evaluating BMP’s for beekeeper success Studying “smart hive” technologies Evaluating genetic lines of bees Find more details about the priority areas and submission guidelines at www.ProjectApism.org/rfps or download the full RFP below. All previously funded Healthy Hives projects can be found in our research database: https://www.projectapism.org/honey-bee-research.html/ The application window for the RFP will...

In the past several months, I’ve been hearing from popular homesteaders and preparedness experts on YouTube discussing the best way to prepare for your medical needs in case of emergency, grid down, pandemics, lock-downs, and other possibilities. The problem is….ALL of them talk about “stocking up” on supplies. Well, I’m here to tell you…there’s a better way to go about preparing for your health self-reliance needs. And that’s herbal medicine, also known as herbalism, or sometimes herbology. I created a video recently about what an herbalist is and what they do, because I get asked ALL the time for clarification...