Best Lobster Bisque

She writes from a still-bucolic but ever-more-suburban town in the New York City ‘burbs. Good thing we had plenty of ocean swims and bike rides to work it all off. Next stop: Kittery Point, Maine (on the New Hampshire border) Photo by Judith Hausman...

The lack of spurs on Cubalaya roosters also sets this breed apart from most chickens. This downward-angling tail with ornate feathering resembles the shape of a lobster claw. Its small pea comb, wattles and earlobes are bright red.

26, 2013 /images/blogs/fish-soup_490.jpg Tags Hungry Locavore , locavore Serve the hot soup (after snow shoveling) with crusty bread, corn muffins or biscuits. By Judith Hausman , Urban Farm contributor Winter is the perfect time for some soup.

Read more of The Hungry Locavore » Tags Hungry Locavore , Judith Hausman , locavore (I confess I didn't make up the idea; I stole it from a women's magazine I rifled in a doctor's waiting room.) […]

Managing Outbreaks: Place a light-colored cloth beneath infested plants and shake individual branches to dislodge many thrips. Outdoors, thrips have numerous natural enemies that are attracted by planting plenty of flowers.

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Although all three are native to Brazil, Thanksgiving and Christmas cactus are tropical rain forest plants, while Easter cactus is native to Brazil's natural forests.The three types of Christmas cactus plants (holiday cacti), are primarily recognized...

Keep the water at a rolling boil.Put on heat-resistant gloves. Cover the pot with a lid, and bring the water to a boil.Boil the cypress knee 30 minutes. If the bark has loosened, move the cypress knee to a clean surface.

They live in and around the Mississippi River. Aquatic plants provide food and shelter to many different species in the river, and can be as small as the single-celled algae. Blue-green algae are less desirable and are considered a nuisance algae.

Half of this mix went into the bowl right away so the flavors could meld and the cabbage could soften a little. During summer, our go-to dish for cabbage is cole slaw, especially since our lettuce have pretty much bolted to tall, flowering stalks.

Experts believe this fascinating and ancient family of trees originated in Southeast Asia. Climate change, land development and tourism also affect the future of the mangrove plant.

Crustaceans such as crayfish, shrimp, some types of lobster and certain crab species live in streams and rivers. Submerged plants grow completely beneath the water, attaching to the bed of the river or stream.

They use their pungent odor attract to insects, which in turn pollinate the plants. The water that pools in their leaves creates many tiny ecosystems, which host insects and even small frogs.Plant lovers around the world treasure orchids for their beauty...

The chunky, soft, roasted chestnut pieces made the bread really special — not a slice you see every day, for sure. I used to often make bread but had eased off because I ate way too much of it by myself! I got started with simple, slow-rise dough and...

Try Naturally Ella's recipe for baked oatmeal . Many urban dwellers and suburbanites take time to reconnect with agriculture through an annual visit to a local orchard. You'll need about 6 pounds total.

If I had added saffron and chicken or sausage, the dish would have veered closer to paella. Thus, this recipe for seafood rice was born. Add stock, tomatoes and all herbs. Butter about 12 large shrimp, cleaned about 1/2 pound striped bass filet or other...

It's fruiting! It actually worked !I wanted to sing! I wanted to dance! I wanted to call the lovely folks at Fungi Perfecti and make kissing noises over the phone! It worked despite me not following the rules of mushroom cultivation to the letter.

And they were so thankful for the food that they feasted for three whole days. Among the items was enough food for one man (we assume that meant women, too) to last a full year: beer (that's what most people drank because water was considered unsafe)...

There are things that sting, things that bite, things that burn...and then there are the bad guys! The notorious Crown-of-thorns starfish looks intriguing, rather like an elaborate crocheted doily, but this felon has been known to decimate large areas...

I was pretty sure it was some kind of contraband. “MORE!” I panted. I ordered a packet of 100 lion's mane mushroom plugs from the lovely folks at Fungi Perfecti (www.fungi.com).

To breathe on land, their lungs evolved in an unusual location—their paddle-shaped hind legs. Both are types of wood lice, a suborder of 5,000 different species. Pill millipedes are in a different scientific order, one named for its resemblance to the...

Little kids loved our corner property. However, he was nervous to switch and was leaning to stay where he was. Even the neighbors down the block like hearing him because it makes them feel like they live on a farm.

Higher elevations are Mount Lokobe at 455m high and Mount Passot at 329m. It lays at the North of Madagascar (the real big island off South-Eastern Africa) close to the Mozambique canal.

Its multiple caps mirror the overlapping feathers of a hen, thus its nickname, hen-of-the-woods. Showing the doctor the mushroom you consumed can be helpful if you fall ill. I've only ever experienced lion's mane as a medicinal extract, where it excels...

Identifying wood blewits is slightly trickier than identifying oyster mushrooms. It's commonly used in a tea for medicine. Simply lay them in a single layer, gill-side up, on a cabinet protected with an absorbent paper.

The apricot seed contains, which can be poisonous if consumed in large amounts. Until the end of the summer, I had a beautiful tan and I was ready to go to the beach without any worries.

It was a lovely and picturesque drive up a one-lane mountain road, with wild flowers clinging to every bank, birds flocking to watch our progress almost as avidly as we watched them, and trees leaning precariously over an mountain stream unusually swollen...