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A Place to Bury Strangers in Vancouver, BC, June 2010

aptbs on stage

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Pickles – First of the season

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Pickles - in the jar June 12, 2010

We’ve had a great crop of cucumbers so far this year. All from 8 plants, four pickling type and four English cucumbers, bought at Doug’s Grocery in White Oak at the corner of Ringold and Brooke Roads. We’ve been eating cucumber salad all week and  I started some cucumbers for pickling yesterday.

We’ll taste the results in a few days. I put together a couple of different recipes for this, so we’ll see how that turns out.

The recipes were taken from Putting Food By and Jam It, Pickle It, Cure It: And Other Cooking Projects.

Picked the cucumbers yesterday and did a short brine for about 24 hours. (Following directions from Putting Food By )

  • Clean the cucumbers
  • Put them in a crock with   one gallon of water and 3/4 cup of kosher salt for the brine.
  • Keep the cucumbers submerged with a plate and let them brine over night.

Today I put 3 quart jars in a a big pot, submerged them, and heated the water until it boiled. Then to each jar I added (sort of following directions in Jam It, Pickle It, Cure It: And Other Cooking Projects)

  • Two dill sprigs
  • Two dill seed heads
  • Two tablespoons of Penzey’s pickling spice
  • Two tablespoons of kosher salt
  • Four cloves of garlic, crushed

Then I added vinegar until the jars were half full and then added water the rest of the way.

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A Place to Bury Strangers Reviews mid-June 2010

aptbs on stage, rock and roll hotel, washington DC

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A Place to Bury Strangers on the Road, links from June 2010

the Crowd at a gig

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Virginia Creeper Trail information

Margaret's rose, home, Falmouth, VAWe are planning on trying the Virginia Creeper Trail this summer. Here are some links about it. Looks like fun!

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Summer squash, lavender recipes

Garden, home, Falmouth, VAWe were going to a friend’s pot-luck party, had plenty of summer squash from our CSA, FACSAP, and the lavender was blooming in the garden. So the hunt for a summer quash or zucchini bread recipe an a lavender butter recipe was on!

Here is what we came up with. We used a variation of the first bread recipe below and made honey-lavender butter. Each is very good, and they went together to the party and received lots of compliments.

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Social Networking and About the Web Changing Us

Tree across the creek, home, Falmouth, VAA few tags for my discussion in the Internet class I’ve been teaching this summer, CPSC 105 The Internet: Technology, Issues, & Information.

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2010 06 03 ernie About the Internet and the Web
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Online dating, Internet researchers, Ethnic dining in DC; yet another collection of links; 2010-06-02

Tree across the creek, home, Falmouth, VA

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Searching for Media: Hyperlinks from Chapter 9, Searching and Researching, Fifth Edition

Searching for Media

The collection of hyperlinks in Chapter 9 of Searching and Researching on the Internet and the World Wide Web 5th Edition

Podcasts

Online Music

Images & Photos

Videos

Last updated June 1, 2010

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A Place to Bury Strangers, on tour 2010 Holland & UK

Oliver at a gig

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