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Stan’s Standard BBQ Chicken With Pearson’s Premium Gourmet BarBeQue Sauce
The Brine and the Two-Zone heat method really help this chicken stand out. The Pearsons Premium makes it a star! Ingredients -2 lbs. chicken legs -1-can of dark ale -1/4 cup coarse (sea) salt -1/4 cup brown sugar -Pearson’s Premium BBQ Sauce (heat level to your liking) Directions Brine:...
N95 vs KN95
N95 VS. KN95 FFP (Filtering Facepiece Respirators), Covid-19, and You. -What- KN95 are masks made in China (as are a lot of N95 masks) that have passed the stringent Chinese GB2626-2006 performance standard. -Are They Good Masks- The CDC2 lists KN95 masks as a “suitable alternative to provide protection...
Gardens, inside out.
Aka why we dislike Lavandula Recently we have been asked a lot about what plants will do well outside versus inside. We were interested in this question, especially when our Garden Gurus (yes, we have two garden gurus, their names are Taela and Sherman) told us that depending on...
A sharpened knife
It’s November, which means that most of us are preparing for that calorie-filled, family invasion known as Thanksgiving. Most people will do some sort of carving the turkey at the table, but even those of us who prefer to serve prime rib or ham or even Tofurkey all have...
Nightmare in the Garden-Deadly Digitalis
Happy October! We love this time of the year in the garden, the mums are blooming, the pumpkins are ripe and the Foxglove is perfect for poisoning…Wait, what? Yep, in honor of this month of horror, we will be talking about that ever-popular Victorian poison, Digitalis. AKA Foxglove. What...
Lovehandle- More to love on your phone
Lovehandles are a great new grip for your beloved phone. Okay, we love our phone we know that’s a little weird, but we also write blogs for a living so our phone is important. If like us, you can’t afford to drop your phone, you need to be able...
Growing love (aka picking the right mulch)
Today we are going to be talking about the super sexy NSFW(not really) topic of….Mulch! What? You think mulch isn’t sexy? Well read on and see if we can change your mind on how “hot” mulch can be. What is mulch? This seems like an obvious question if you...
Bottled hope (aka water)
We know that water in single-use plastic is a big deal. We also know that everything has a time and a place. So we are switching from the bottled water that we used to donate for charity events (that was produced by a certain corporation that has some pretty...
Potty Mints
We have all been there. Maybe, it’s at work and you only have one bathroom but that new coffee was so good, you had to have a third cup. Maybe it’s at your new S/O’s house and you had a little too much of the margarita and taco combo...