Tales From The Kitchen: Learning to Make Pie Crust

Tales From The Kitchen: Learning to Make Pie Crust

by | Feb 6, 2013 | Bright Lights

Following recipes accurately was one problem in my early cooking days (see “Tales From the Kitchen: The Giant Cake,” January 31, 2013); incomplete recipes were quite another matter. Besides the cook books I received as wedding gifts, most of the recipes I tried to use...

Sedeveria Robert Grimm

by | Feb 6, 2013 | Blooming Now

Sedeveria Robert Grimm makes a nice cluster of small flowers. Sedeveria Robert Grimm. In trying to get a close-up of the plant, you can see I cut the cluster of flowers out of the picture. They would be at the end of the bloom stem trailing to the right in the...

Pleiospilos Nelii

by | Feb 4, 2013 | Blooming Now

I am learning more about all the different plants in the  Aizoaceae family, found in the south of Africa, and this plant is one of them. Also called split rock, because that is sort of what they look like, pleiospilos nelii blooms late in the afternoon and makes...