Spring Time Fruit Smoothie
Crushed Iced, 100% Apple Juice, Fat Free Skim Milk, Fat Free Vanilla Yogart, Pomegranate Blueberry Minute Made 100% Juice, Frozen Bananas, Blueberries, Raspberries, Strawberries, Blackberries, Tomato & Avocado.
Grow Op For Seeds Up And Running
I heard enough complaining from the wife about all of my seed starts making a huge mess so this year I decided to go to Ace Hardware and get some supplies to start my own little grow room. It really was much cheaper then I expected to buy a few florescent lights that had power plugins built directly into them. Peppers take forever to start so that being said I had those suckers seeded early March. I ended up planting 6 different types of peppers including bell peppers, brown chocolate Jamaican habaneros, Big Daddy Devils, jalapenos, and a few seeds I saved from last years pepper harvest. Next came the tomatoes and purple cauliflower I ordered off Amazon. I went with 6 different types of tomatoes to have a nice variety like the peppers: Giant white tomatoes, cherry tomatoes, San Marzano tomatoes heirlooms, yellow pear tomatoes & a few seeds from last years harvest.
Sunshine Roll from H&S Hibachi Sushi Japanese Express
This is a Sunshine Roll from H&S Hibachi Sushi Japanese Express located in Janesville, WI. The sushi roll is deep fried with crab meat, avocado, smoke salmon, cream cheese topped with spicy sauce eel sauce! It’s hard to find good sushi when living in the Midwest; H & S Hibachi has yet to let me down. They are a “Japanese Express” so you can usually get in and out in a fair amount of time.
If you’re looking for some good quality and quick sushi in or around Janesville then stop into H&S Hibachi Sushi Japanese Express – I highly recommend the Sunshine Roll!
H & S Hibachi & Sushi Express
2443 Milton Ave
HD Tomato Hornworms / Five-Spotted Hawkmoth in Wisconsin – Devours Tomato Plants – Garden Pest!
The five-spotted hawkmoth (Manduca quinquemaculata) is a brown and gray hawk moth of the Sphingidae family. The caterpillar, often referred to as the tomato hornworm, can be a major pest in gardens. Tomato hornworms are closely related to (and sometimes confused with) the tobacco hornworm (Manduca sexta). This confusion arises because caterpillars of both species feed on the foliage of various plants from the family Solanaceae, so either species can be found on tobacco or tomato leaves, and the plant on which the caterpillar is found does not indicate its species.
When the caterpillars turn into the moth they are mistaken for humming birds because the way they flutter their wings so quickly (fastest month!)
Tomato hornworms are known to eat various plants from the family Solanaceae, commonly feeding on tomato, eggplant, pepper, tobacco, moonflowers and potato. Accordingly, they are often found on defoliated tomato plants, the caterpillar clinging to the underside of a branch near the trunk. They are difficult to spot due to their green coloration. Tomato hornworms fluoresce differently from tomato leaves. Using an ultraviolet light source of 375 nm and viewed behind a blue-blocking filter (yellow or amber filter), a tomato hornworm fluoresces in bright green while a tomato leaf appears deep red/amber. This sharp color contrast helps gardeners locate tomato hornworms at night. They can be reduced by planting marigold flowers around these plants.
Video of the Tomato Hornworms feeding on one of my tomato plants:
Video of the Five-Spotted Hawkmoth Up Close in HD:
Five-Spotted Hawkmoth In Action
Garden is therapy
TOWN OF BELOIT–By day, Kacey Kaderly works in the business world, keeps his hair short and uses deodorant.
But in his garden, he’s a “hippy dippy” dude who goes barefoot because he likes the feel of the earth, eschews chemicals and strives to be sustainable.
Kaderly’s garden is his stress reliever, his hobby, his outdoor man cave. He stands outside and just stares at it, like he’s watching a nature show on TV.
On days off, he packs a cooler and weeds his way around the garden to the back of his large town of Beloit lot.
“Pulling weeds is very therapeutical,” Kaderly said. “In two or three hours, I got a good tan and a good buzz.”
Sometimes, his wife will sunbathe nearby and keep him company. He doesn’t trust her to pull any weeds in his garden.
Kaderly, 28, normally talks fast but really ramps it up when his garden is the subject.
He comes from a long line of farmers, and his father is a master gardener. Growing up, the family would buy a cow and live off the garden. They went out to eat maybe once a year.
“I thought that was normal,” Kaderly said. “I thought it was pretty good growing up and having fresh, good food like that.”
Kaderly’s own garden is 4 years old. He starts most of his plants inside from seed and transfers them outside on a staggered timetable.
He babies his seedlings, going home every noon from his job in Janesville and moving them twice a day to catch the sun. He moistens them with a spray bottle twice a day.
“Maybe I’m a little OCD about it,” he conceded.
This year, Kaderly planted two types of potatoes—he has hundreds of potatoes, many still in the ground waiting to be dug. He planted onions anywhere they’d fit—“You can never have too many onions”—and staked snow peas, snap peas, sugar peas and sweet peas.
He planted four types of lettuce and kale, “one of the most nutritious things out there.” Green peas, cucumbers and squash twine up fences and supports. Cabbage, with its massive leaves and tight center, grow in a corner. Herbs include oregano, dill, basil and cilantro.
He has jalapeno, habanero and green peppers and three types of carrots. It’s his first year for eggplant—“I wanted to see what they were all about.”
Rounding it all out are about 60 tomato plants—roma, cherry, and beefsteak.
“I planted way too many,” Kaderly said happily. “Technically, any sane person only needs two to three.”
Next year, he plans to bring in a truckload of good earth and expand his garden. He’s going to try corn.
Kaderly doesn’t use chemicals.
“I’m kind of hippy dippy, all organic,” Kaderly said.
He composts his eggs shells, coffee grounds and fruit and vegetable matter for fertilizer. He digs his grass clippings into the dirt.
Kaderly does tons of research for tips and recipes.
He discovered, for instance, that herbs all have preferred methods of harvesting so they continue to grow. He found a pickled radish recipe with Indian roots that was fun to try but “turned out kind of weird.”
The bounty that makes it from the garden into the kitchen—Kaderly munches his way down the rows—is stir fried, baked, steamed, juiced, and blended. Meals are planned around what’s ready in the garden.
Kaderly starts every dish with olive oil, onions, peppers, garlic and herbs. He doesn’t use salt and pepper. He often throws in kale, which cooks up like spinach.
This year, Kaderly made rhubarb jam and is going to can. He’s got a pressure cooker and recipes on standby.
“When you eat (home-grown food), it tastes so much better because you know where it came from,” Kaderly said.
“God intended us to eat natural food, not chemicals. I can’t stand artificial crap, the preservatives.
“My goal is to grow and can enough to last until next year’s garden, to be self-sufficient and not rely on anybody else,” he said.
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Summer Drink: Orange Juice Vodka Fruit Smoothy
Nothings better on a hot Summer July day then a nice cold summer beverage: Blended up ice with orange juice, vodka, raspberries, kiwi, apricot, blueberries, lime, lemon, & pear!
50+ Tomato Plants Growing Like Crazy!
Some photos of my 2013 garden including over 50 tomatoes plants (6 variety’s)
June Garden Update: Tomatoes, String Green Beans, Squash, Zucchini, Cabbage
June Garden Update: Tomatoes, String Green Beans, Squash, Zucchini, Cabbage, Lettuce, Spinach, Pototoes, Peppers, Egg Plant, Carrots, Herbs
May Garden Update: Planted Green Beans, Snow Peas, Sugar Peas, Carrots Potatoes, Spinach, Lettuce
May Garden Update: Planted Green Beans, Snow Peas, Sugar Peas, Carrots Potatoes, Spinach, Lettuce
2013 Garden Seed Starts: Tomatoes, Peppers, Green Beans, Snow Peas, Broccoli….
This year I got anxious and ended up planted my seeds inside earlier then the prior years.
Snake Dog IPA – Flying Dog Brewery Maryland
“It snakes down the throat like a faithful friend” – Anna Steadman
He slithers through the city in search of his face. No place too seedy, no place too fake – they’re all on the menu tonight. And of course she’ll find him irresistible, for it’s the forked tongue she prefers.
COMMERCIAL DESCRIPTION
More cunning than a snake in the bush…Snake Dog India Pale Ale is a Colorado-style IPA, power hopped with specialty hops from the Pacific Northwest. This is the brewery’s hop monster, and the citrus fruit aroma will hypnotize the senses of the most hardcore of craft drinkers. 15 Plato, 60 IBU, Crystal Malt, Warrior and Columbus hops, and dry hopped with Columbus.
Brewed by Flying Dog Brewery
Style: India Pale Ale (IPA)
Frederick, Maryland USA
Web: flyingdogales.com/ | Facebook: flyingdog | Twitter: flyingdog | info@flyingdogales.com
EST. CALORIES: 213 ABV: 7.1%
“‘Good people drink good beer’ – Hunter S. Thompson”
Flying Dog Brewery is noted for using the unusual art of Ralph Steadman (Ralph Steadman (born 15 May 1936) is a British cartoonist best known for his work with American author Hunter S. Thompson)
Poison Ivy in Rosco, IL – Caramel Brownie Melt
Caramel Brownie Melt
This is a Caramel Brownie Melt that I ordered for dessert at Poison Ivy in Rosco, IL – IT WAS AMAZING! Two scoops of ice cream on top a giant over sized warm brownie smothered in hot fudge sauce with chocolate fudge flakes….I highly recomend on of these if your looking to satisfy the sweet tooth! The food at the Poison Ivy was also very delicious and I really liked the selection. I stopped in to each lunch and have a beer with my good friend Kyle Singles; we will be back!
The beer list was pretty impressive being that they are located in Illinois and not the great beer state of Wisconsin. Below I listed whats on Poison Ivy’s menu but I don’t think this is everything they have to offer – even a beer snob like myself was impressed!
BEER LIST:
Red Stripe • Woodchuck • Fat Tire • Harp • Grolsh • Smithwicks • Leinenkugles Red Lager • Leinenkugles Sunset Wheat • Amstel • Lite • Beck • Becks • Dark • Molsen Canadian • Michelob • Michelob Ultra • Odouls Amber • O’douls Lager • Heiniken • Heiniken Light Hackher Pschorr • Dox Equis • Samuel Adams • Bosten Lager New Castle Killians • Peroni • Fosters • Mike Hard • Lemonade • Mikes Hard Cranberry • Smirnoff Ice • Smirnoff • Grape
CRAFT BEER LIST:
Delirium Tremens – Belgium Pale Ale – Words simply cannot describe
the intricate flavor of this world champion beer. This golden beer tastes
excellent with nice Belgian yeasts aromas with hints of banana, clove, and
fruit. The taste is complex and gets better as you drink
Brewed by: Brouwerij Huyghe
Zywiec– Poland pale lager– pronounces “je-vi-ets” this tastes creamy and to
the point. Brewed with hops and malt, and crystal clear mountain waters, an
ever day beer worth drinking.
Brewed by: Zywiec Breweries PLC (Heineken)
Erdinger Champ – German hefeweizen – brewed in such a way that it can
be drunk straight from the bottle. It has fine yeast with the characteristic of a
classic Bavarian wheat beer.
Brewed by: Erdinger Weissbräu
Birra Morette – Italy pale lager – This is produced using the traditional
process that has remained almost unchanged since 1859. Only the highest
quality or raw materials are used and a particular mixture of valuable hops.
Duvel – Belgium Stong Ale – Four generations of the Moortgat family have
frought together pilsner malts, bohemian malts, and a unique yeast strain to
create this intense, aromatic, and beguiling ale.
Hazed & Infused – Colorado Pale Ale – This unfiltered dry-hopped ale is
“hazed” in its natural state and “infused” with a crystal and centennial hop
blend, creating a flavorful aromatic brew.
Tangerine Wheat – California fruit beer – A crisp citrus beer with a hint of
tangerine from the lost coast brewery.
Dumaine Dupage – Illinois French style country ale – This Two Brother
brewery beer has a deep amber color with a toasty, sweet caramel start, it
finishes with just enough hops to clean off the palate.
Jack Whacker Tommy Knocker – Colorado Wheat ale – low hopping
rates allow the refreshing aroma and citrus flavor of a late addition of lemon
grass to dominate. This unfiltered beer retains all of its protein, flavor, and
yeast, resulting in a traditionally cloudy appearance
Indinca – California Indian Pale Ale – a hoppy full bodied beer, crisp and
clean. Made with generous amounts of Columbus, Willamette, and
centennial hops.
Glacial Trail IPA – Wisconsin – This is the brewery’s newest beer, an
American style IPA. Slightly malty with a citrus floral hops right up front, a
true hophead dream.
Pick Axe Tommy Knocker – Colorado Indian Pale Ale – From Idaho
springs this has prominent hops that are malty and crisp, an all American
IPA.
2xIPA Southern Tier – New York– Not quite an imperial but certainly not
a standard India Pale Ale. This double IPA is a hop lover’s dream it’s citrusy
and clean with an incredible finish.
Bitter End – Illinois Pale Ale – This beer from Two Brothers brewing
company has subtle amounts of malts and hops for a clean crisp ale.
Founders Dirty Bastard – Michigan Scotch ale – Dark ruby in color and
brewed with ten varieties of imported malts to make it a bold powerful ale.
This beer “ain’t for the wee lads”.
Big Muddy Saluki Dunkeldog – Illinois dunkel/dark amber ale – Brewed
with two row pale malt, roasted malt, munich malt, and chocolate male.
Excellent drinkability with depth and complexity, it has a clean crisp finish
from well attenuated fermentation.
OId Scratch Flying Dog – Maryland Amber lager – Ideal for the lager
drinker who prefers amber beers, its brewed in the “steam-style” tradition a
so called hybrid beer that is fermented at medium temperatures to develop
some ale and lager qualities.
Left Hand Milk Stout – Colorado Stout – The English style of beer first
appeared in London in the 1800’s. The milk sugar adds to a well rounded
sweetness to this dark beer and makes it an outstanding year-round stout
More about Poison Ivy in Roscoe, IL:
Poison Ivy Pub offers the perfect blend of a lively sports bar and classic pub creating Roscoe’s premier location for dining, socializing, and unsurpassed viewing for all sporting events. Poison Ivy Pub sports 15 HD TV’s, live music and DJ’s, and a menu ranging from great bar food to Panini’s to the best burger in town.
Location: Poison Ivy in Rosco, IL
Address: 5765 Elevator Rd, Roscoe, IL 61073
Phone: 815.623.1480
Homepage: Poisonivypub.com
Fuji Sushi and Steakhouse
Fuji Sushi and Steakhouse – Janesville, WI
Address: 2235 Milton Ave, Janesville, WI 53545
(Get Driving Directions Here)
One of my favorite foods is Sushi. The one downfall is the price. I usually try to get my sushi fix at least once a week. My good friend Kyle Singles and I decided to hit up Fuji Steakhouse in Janesville, WI and get our selfs a Sushi Boat! Fuji is comparable to JMK Nippon’s in Rockford, IL. They have 2 options: Go to the left of the lobby to the sushi bar and get some lunch or go to the right to the dining room and get a hibachi show.
If I could afford it I would probably eat sushi every day of my life.
Thanks to my good buddy Kyle Singles I tried some Crab Tar Tar at Fuji’s (pictured above)…amazing!
This is what Kyle Singles and I ordered between the two of us…ya we like to eat! I think the total was around $80 but we was well worth it. You can see Kyle is like a kid in the candy store.
