April’s Home and Garden

Well I hope you are not tired of the little eggplant. I was able to retrieve it-hooray! It not only survived the very hot temperatures, it only got watered when it rained, there wasn’t anyone taking care of it. Not only does it look better than it ever looked, big and green. It is flowering [...]

Well since I last posted we have been busy looking for a house and are going through our second move in two months. So I am once again looking forward to a brand new garden. I uprooted some of my plants which are temporarily residing in pots, and I hope they survive being transplanted again. [...]

I was never a fan of omelets or scrambled eggs; but once while I was visiting my sister in New England, she made potato frittata (an Italian omelet) for breakfast, and it was delicious. Recently I had a craving for some, and I developed my own recipe. This potato frittata has bacon (I use turkey [...]

The little eggplant that could, was one of my few garden successes this year. Florida gardening is different from Pennsylvania gardening, in more ways than one. This year I grew a “lavender touch” eggplant. After it was transplanted, the leaves were promptly devoured by snails. “So much for that plant,”  I thought. Well it grew [...]

By this time of year many of you are harvesting your vegetables and I wanted to share with you some of my favorite ways to use my harvest. Tomato Salad: The most basic tomato salad recipe consists of  chopped plum or other tomatoes, sliced red onions, olive oil, basil, a little water– about a tablespoon [...]

April’s Tuna Casserole If you like tuna, but never liked tuna casserole, I challenge you to try this recipe. I was one of those people. If you don’t like roasted peppers you can leave them out, it still tastes good. I used to put them on only half of the casserole, since my kids wouldn’t [...]

Here are a number of tips for cleaning that use mainly vinegar or baking soda and are easy to do. For Scrubbing: Baking soda can be used as an alternative to cleanser. We have melamine countertops, which became stained red from spilled jello. They are easy to scratch up and ruin. A wet rag and [...]

I just love seafood and would probably be perfectly happy to go without meat if I could afford to eat  it often enough. One of my favorites is salmon, and I am always looking for new ways to prepare it. I want to share two of my favorite ways with you. I usually grill it, [...]

There are many reasons to grow organically. Simply put It is much healthier to eat organic foods, which are also tastier; and it is bad for the earth and wildlife to use chemical fertilizers, and toxic pesticides and weed controls, which kill or damage more than their intended target. In addition to using organic insect [...]

April’s Home and Garden, was originally hosted at squarespace.com and began on 7/10/07. It ran approximately  until November of that year. Life circumstances at the time did not allow me to continue after that. Now that I have been able to rebuild it,  I would like to repost my original first story, followed by an [...]