What To Do With Chickpeas

Choose other spring flowers for a cheerful display, and highlight their colors with deep green foliage. As cut flowers, however, they tend to twist and turn, as if they want to escape their vases.

Cucumbers add fresh, cool flavors to tossed green salads and stand on their own as a cold side dish. Remove ink and crayon stains from walls with cucumber peelings. Placing pieces of cucumber in aluminum pans in garden beds deters grubs and slugs as the...

Cilantro is not common in New Mexican cooking (which is more well known for the use of blue corn and fresh chilies), but cilantro is a hallmark of the Santa Fe substyle, where it can top just about any dish.Another name for cilantro is Chinese parsley.

The most obvious choice is to make a bowl of aromatic Thai soup.To make an easy Tom Ka Gai (coconut chicken soup), heat a little olive oil in the bottom of a pot.Toss in a couple of tablespoons of red curry paste, a couple of tablespoons of grated fresh...

Simmer until the tomatoes cook down, then thin the mixture. The basil leaves are pureed with pine nuts and Parmesan or Romano cheese, using a steady stream of olive oil to keep the mass moving in the blender.

However, oregano is difficult to grow from seed and may not grow true to the mother plant. Sampling the flowers before using them gives a better idea on how much to use in each dish.The small, pink or white flowers growing on the ends of oregano stems...

These can look quite decorative in the jars.In Greek cuisine, cucumbers and dill come together in tatziki, a sauce based on Greek yogurt. Pour the sauce into a bowl, cover with plastic wrap, and chill for at least two hours to allow the flavors to mingle.

(10 – 15 C.) and you may need to set up special quarters for them to keep them at the right temperature and humidity level indoors during the cold months.Like all plants, bonsai need fertilizer to stay healthy.

When thinking about chives most people concentrate on the foliage (which look like grass blades).However, every part of the chive plant is edible, and you can use the bulb like a mild onion in a pinch.The foliage can be added to dumpling or biscuit dough...

But don't worry -- you can always find something to do with all that extra parsley. However, it is self-seeding, which means if it likes the area where you've planted it, not only will the plant replace itself, but you might get a lot more seedlings than...

Of course, a nest with eggs or chicks in it requires a careful response. If there are unhatched eggs, you can try to replace the nest near where it came from but make it more secure by using a berry basket and tying it to branches so it doesn't fall out...

From pollinating food crops to creating honey, there's no more useful insect that I can think of—I must confess to being biased in favor of bees, though. I've been keeping bees on and off for about 20 years, and I started with them in high school.

Adding iron-rich fertilizers or compost to the soil around the citrus tree helps increase the soil's nitrogen content and improve the health of the tree. In addition to keeping citrus trees warm, gardeners must also keep them healthy.

To make easy charro beans, soak a pound of pinto beans overnight, then toss in some onion tomato and garlic. Spread the potatoes onto a baking sheet, top with snipped oregano leaves and squeeze on some lemon juice.

In fact, in some places, fennel can be so prolific it is considered a weed. So what do you do to keep fennel from becoming a weed in your garden? In France, fennel bulbs are baked, boiled or braised, and are sometimes placed on the bottom of a pan to...

I especially like to add them to salads, where they add another layer of flavor. If you like, you can top this with slices of fresh mozzarella.Mix thyme leaves with melted butter and use to top other vegetables, such as green beans or asparagus.

To get started, you and your children should know a bit about violets and why they're special. How To Make Candied Violets Tessa Zundel Step 1: Gather a handful of fresh violets, leaving the stems as long as you can for ease of use during this process.

Wearing gloves, you can attempt to help the process along by applying some olive oil or petroleum jelly on and just inside her vent. If the hen does produce an egg after treatment, and then bounces back to health, she was indeed egg bound.

As with a summer compost pile, achieving a balance of “brown” and “green” material in the compost is the key to proper breakdown. The bacteria, fungi and other microorganisms that inhabit decomposing waste do the same.

It's likely that once you see the bigger picture, the smaller menial tasks won't seem like a burden. Begin to take notes on specific tasks that must be done, your 'druthers and wishes, and your dreams for your gardening season.

Life is like gardening in that we all complete a circle of life. In the end, I believe we end up exactly where we should be. Had I known when I was younger, that gardening is so rewarding and gratifying, I may have saved myself taking the long walk to...

The ultrasound technician asked us if we were ready to hear what we'd be having and we nodded to her silently. She was thrilled. While my back was turned for a moment, Bailey decided that she was ready to take the plunge.I turned around just in time to...

Use caution when doing this, and don't try it unless you are very comfortable using a chainsaw. Let the vines grow up and over the stump, and in the blooming season they will completely cover it with leaves and flowers.Use the wood of the tree stump as...

Plant them close together, pointy ends up, in soil, stones or sea glass, with the top one-half of each bulb sticking out of the material. At that point, cut the foliage to the ground, and wait for next year's floral display.The term "forcing bulbs" may...

Precipitation, condensation, evaporation are defined and how they can help or hurt the garden.Not all insects are bad; beneficial insects can help to control the “bad bugs”.Programs are identified on how the JMG's can help their communities.Some of...

Faith that nature will renew itself. They took away the broken half of my redbud, and trimmed what was left of it. They pulled the downed limbs from my baby magnolia and it popped right back up.

That is considered by this country gal as work! I truly believe I have already passed on this mother-daughter gene or trait. She could have had the crummiest day ever and step outside to pluck a few weeds or deadhead, give them a little drink or just...