One of the things I enjoy most about blogging and social media is that you get to meet and make friends with a bunch of like-minded cooks and food writers from all around the world. Barbara Kiebel, who lives in Denver, Colorado and blogs at Creative Culinary, is a 'friend in food' across the miles and it gives me great pleasure to welcome her to Good Things. Barbara started her online life 18 years ago when she began professionally developing websites. The first website she made for herself was in 1995 and was a place to feature her best recipes for family and friends. In the last few years she segued to a food blog, Creative Culinary, with the motto 'Eat, Drink, Repeat'. She prepares new recipes, photographs them and talks a bit about the store to table experience. Barbara's specialty cocktails are making news on her ‘Happy Hour Friday’ column, where she occasionally pairs them with appetizers. Barbara is a mom to her grown daughters, Emily and Lauren, and precious dog named Abbie. She loves to create, cook, garden, decorate and read websites that inspire her each day. Barbara says she enjoys good wine and great cocktails, and when the weather is warm, nothing makes her happier than entertaining friends in her garden and feeding them barbecue and smoked favorites, along with a current favorite libation.
In this Good Things guest post, Barbara tells us about growing basil in water (!) and shares a delightful pasta recipe... Millions of Australians are believed to have inadequate levels of vitamin D, a problem exacerbated by the increased use of sunscreen which blocks the sun’s rays, nature’s natural source of vitamin D. Health issues caused by insufficient levels include high blood pressure and increased risk of breast, kidney and prostate cancer and rickets. It's October and while our northern hemisphere friends are celebrating the coming of fall, it's springtime here in Australia. At our house we're celebrating that the bees are back in the garden. Curiously, they disappeared last summer and we really felt their absence, in terms of their physical presence — flitting about on the lavender bushes in the courtyard — and also in that they weren't around to pollinate our strawberries and other plants in the kitchen garden. When the mother bird returns to her brood / beak squirming with winged breakfast / a shrill clamor rises like jingling from tiny, high-pitched bells. 'It pleases me to take amateur photographs of my garden, and it pleases my garden to make my photographs look professional' ~ Robert Brault, writer. It is October, springtime in Australia, and yet there is still a sharp iciness to the cool morning breeze. The air is rich with the scent of sweet Jasmine, and as I write this post I watch a family of fairy wrens that are nesting in the tangle of flower-covered vines just outside my study. I'm amazed at the number of moths and other insects these little birds can find, as they dart back and forth from the garden to their nest, bringing sustenance to their young. I reach for my camera, but they are simply too quick for me, so I'm sharing instead a lovely image of a blue wren captured by my bird-enthusiast friend, Christine Cannon. 'Sit down and relax while I make our breakfast, Mum,' my daughter said as she flung open the plantation shutters on the portico overlooking the pool. Moments later the room was bathed in the warmth of the morning sunshine, with shimmering ripples of spectral colour and light from the tropical oasis outside reflecting onto the interior walls. |
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