Seasonal Eating

courtesy of cityseed ct,gov

There are many different diets out there one of the ones I have really enjoyed is the 100 mile diet, which advocates eating as much of your fruits, veggies and proteins form within a hundred miles of your home. Which would mean you have to shop more in the farmers market, since most those are local and generally within a hundred miles of the farmers market. Luckily for me I live in CT which is dotted with hundreds of pick your own farms, and tons of farmers markets, or side of the road markets (close to many of the farms).  Not only is it a good diet, it is an excellent 'green' movement as well.

So I thought I would show you what you should eat this season as part of connecting to the seasons ans working with the energy of Spring, which is counted from April to June.


Herbs:
Chamomile, Chervil, Lemon Balm, chives, chive blossom, lovage, lavender, dill, cilantro, french tarragon
Veggies:
Cucumbers, asparagus, snow pea, sugar snap pea, english pea, rhubarb
Mushrooms:
 button, cremini, portabello, shiitake, morel, chanterelle, oyster
Edible flowers,
viola, johnny jump-up, zucchini blossom

Hot and Sweet Peppers
lettuce
salad greens
tomato
strawberry, apple, cherries

Eggs: chicken, duck, goose, pheasant, wild turkey, guinea hen
Poultry: chicken, cornish game hen, soup pheasant
Fish and Seafood: boston mackerel, flounder, porgy, sea bass, shad, whiting, freshwater trout, oysters, clams, crab, smoked fish

I will also be sharing recipes to go with these so look out for those.
Be Blessed

Book Review

Title:      The Sugar Queen
Author:  Sarah Addison Allen
Pages:   276
Genre:    Fiction

Synopsis:

Twenty-seven-year-old Josey Cirrini is sure of three things: winter in her North Carolina hometown is her favorite season, she s a sorry excuse for a Southern belle, and sweets are best eaten in the privacy of her hidden closet. For while Josey has settled into an uneventful life in her mother s house, her one consolation is the stockpile of sugary treats and paperback romances she escapes to each night... Until she finds it harboring none other than local waitress Della Lee Baker, a tough-talking, tenderhearted woman who is one part nemesis and two parts fairy godmother...

Fleeing a life of bad luck and big mistakes, Della Lee has decided Josey s clandestine closet is the safest place to crash. In return she's going to change Josey's life because,..

My Review:
I LOVED this book. Josey is a wonderful character who does her duty well, and hides all hints of a personality in an effort to pay her mother back. Della Lee is hell bent of making Josey have a life and aides in pushing Josey out the tiny little shell of a life she has created. Much like Rapunzel, Josey has locked herself in a tower, and hidden all of her potential, Della Lee is the little 'devilish' thought that has tempted her out.

I read Garden Spells and loved the cast of characters, and I am no less in love with this town and it's amazingly 'witchy' cast, including a very sexy Succubus.Sarah Addison Allen has a definite talent for making her characters, and their lives come alive, and I knew who Della was from the very first, but it was great to read it in the end anyway.

Josey's changes and her new life a so well worth reading about. I enjoyed thos love story as well as the secondary love story within.

I got this book in the Bargain bin at WaldenBooks for $3.99, it was well worth the original $22.00.

Rating: 4 out of 4 Broomsticks

Pick this one up when you have a chance
Enjoy Your Reading

Dear TMobile

I have been a loyal customer for over 12 years, recently when my family needed to change from Verizon wireless i got them to come over to you. I have never had any real reason to complain about service or any issues. Today i have had an issues with my phone and called customer care thinking foolishly that well "they care what customers think". Well that was a load of shyt.

I have the T-mobile Dash 3G and have had issues with it, it freezes, it resets itself i have lost all my contacts and had to spend hours resetting all my previous preferences. the letter 'A' is stuck and doesn't work the trackball only works when it feels like it, my 'windows media player' says all my files are corrupted and can't play even though they play perfectly fine on my computer version of Window media player.

Everyday to get this damn phone to work I have to take the battery out and restart it, it locked itself on silent the other day and i had no idea how to get it out of that mode it took 30 mins of frantically searching before i found the way to undo that. the phone restarts and freezes in the middle of apps, it kicks me off the Internet as soon as i sign on and I am paying for '3G' service which is a load of crock as its slow as hell. When its not kicking me off I can't type into whatever I am on. What is the point of this phone??? How is it a windows phone but doesn't actually have any windows apps??? Why must I download another software when it looks like Microsoft office is on there but it really isn't it's just so I can read stuff not actually you know USE IT.

 I spent THREE (3) and a half hours on the phone with your customer service today, and still got no where. Why the f**k would i want the same phone back after it broke not once but twice, this phone is defective you no longer offer it as a phone to purchase but those of us stuck with the phone have to suck it up and keep getting the same BULLSHYT "refurbished" phone. The definition of an IDIOT is someone who keeps doing the SAME thing and keeps hoping for DIFFERENT results and that's basically what you want me to do, deal with a 'fixed' broken phone and then act surprised when the does the same shyt. I AM DONE

12 years of loyalty and i have to deal with this??? When my contract ends, you can kiss my ass, as I am NEVER coming back to you, even if I have to send smoke signals to get my information across I will never come back to you. I can now understand why AT&T was able to buy y'all out. You suck and seem to think this is OK, and that your customers have no other choices. Well I am a customer telling you that you I have a choice and it's no longer you and you will never get another penny out of me.

Signed a pissed off almost former customer

I am Officially on Vacation

OMG it feels so good this is the first morning in a long time that I woke up past sunrise. I wasn’t rushing anywhere, I wasn’t freaking out that I needed to be somewhere, I just woke up and took my time. It feels so good.

So You must be wondering what the hell kind of program I must be doing, well I’m in the healthcare field and I ‘m in a program that will help expand my ability to work, I will be able to move around more with this new degree, and even though I know I have it abit in the bag, I’m still going to hold back on telling what it is. I still don’t want to tempt the Gods into coming after me.

So this weekend I took on a project of rearranging my room, inventorying ALL my books,and I mean ALL my books. It's been fun to see just how well my memory is holding up of what books I do own, and who has borrowed what. I have a ton of books, and inventorying them is proving to be a huge job, so i have begun to break them up by shelves and catalog them that way. (above is just one pile I brought downstairs with me)

I have also recently joined a group called Paperbackswap.com Just click on the link to Join It's Free, you put up 10 or 20 books you wish to trade and they give you 2 free points. You use the points to trade for books, and the person mailing it to you pays for postage, and that's it. Boom you have a new book at no cost to you, each time someone requests your book and you mail it, they then say they received it you get a point. I'm in love with this stie, I get new books in the mail without anything coming out of the budget. How sweet is that!?!?!?!?  (To be fair I must let you know if you click on the link and sign up I also receive a point for referring you).

I am super pumped about the Royal Wedding coming up, my Mother watched Princess Di's wedding to Prince Charles in the 1980s (I was born that November, so I wasn't around for that one), Her mother was one of the many to witness Queen Elizabeth's coronation in 1953. I know it sounds weird, but I'm from a commonwealth country and this to me is a huge huge event. Yes I know there are many anti-Monarchists running around threatening to ruin the big day, but you know what I'm excited. I remember being a child and having a huge crush on Prince Will when he was also my age (ok a little younger by nine months) and this to me is like one of my friends getting married. I loved the video that went viral and then got picked up by T-mobile.

I'm also pumped that Princess Grace's son Prince Albert will also be getting married this year, in June  to Charlene Wittstock a South African former Olympic swimmer.  And although Prince Albert isn't having the same amount of press I'm also excited about this one just because I love Princess Grace, and the glamour  of Monaco.

I have also begun to play catch-up on ALL my shows. I'm pumped to see all the good storylines like on House, Army Wives, and How I met your mother. i'm even pumped about Gossip Girl today (yes, it's my guilty pleasure so Don't. Judge. Me).

I've been browsing the Coming Soon section of Yahoo movies and can't wait to see:
1) Jumping the Broom (a TD Jakes movie)
2) Madea's Big Happy family (anything Madea is hilarous to me)
3) Something borrowed (I love Ginnifer Goodwin and Kate Hudson--so much like her Mom, very funny)
4) When Harry tries to Marry (its a Bollywood film, and the theater in my town always screens these so I'm super pumped)
5)Pirates of the Caribbean (it's Johnny Depp what more is there ot say??)
6)and yes Prom I know I know but it looks hilarious, my sister gets us tickets that I don't have to pay for so this one i will see just cause it's free.
7) and of course The Hangover 2
and we all Know HARRY POTTER without a doubt we will be watching the midnight preview and like last year, my sister and her friends are going all dressed up as their favorite characters.

I'm also pumped about Beltaine, are you?? What are your plans??
So that's me for this weekend and today what are you doing and what are you looking forward to???
Be Blessed

I'm Back!!!

As of today at 150 pm i have break until next Mon May 2nd. what are you plans for Beltaine??? I can't wait to catch ya'll up on the many things going on and how much life has developed for me. I will also be making some changes around here so please be patient with me. Thanks

Im going to take a nap (Goddess do i need it) and Ill be posting in the morning!!!!

Be Blessed