One thing that we are thankful for during the month of Thanksgiving is the availability of Pomegranates. They are available in the fall in our supermarket, but the prices are reduced during the month of November, and we buy a couple each week. My husband was watching “Good Eats” with Alton Brown one night and [...]
We’re almost finished with a tour of some photos from our Maine vacation. We took many pictures of the outdoors…gardens, woodlands, ocean scenes, and from them I’d like to share a couple of pictures. First, these Rose Hips were all over, on another earlier blog post I shared a picture of a rose we were [...]
In the mild November we experienced in 2007, I shared a bit about to an interesting Blueberry store, including a picture, on my Happy Nutritionist’s Nuggets blog…there was hardly a thing in the store that wasn’t in some way related to Blueberries. Maine is one of the best places to pick blueberries in MHO, they [...]
The botanical name for this spiny bush, shrub, or small tree is Cratageus oxyancanthoides. Though it is native to the Mediterranean, it is cultivated worldwide. Wildlife enjoy it as a safe place to take cover, and as a food source. The bush flowers in the spring, and the berries are ready to harvest in early [...]
These little berries look a lot like blueberries, don’t they? They grow in clusters that hang from palm-like trees that grow in places like Belize, Peru and Brazil. Another thing that this berry is said to have that is greater than the blueberry is powerful antioxidants. I have seen this berry talked about on nutrition [...]
