http://floridabackyard.org Growing far too many things in far too small a space. Thu, 28 Jan 2010 14:56:59 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en My favorite one yet, I think, particularly "Lions."  Enjoy! Spoon - I Summon You The Matches - Wake the Sun Foreign Born - Winter Games We Are Scientists - Can't Lose The Features - Lions Editors - Smokers Outside Hollerado - Do the Doot Da Doot Doo Temper Trap - Sweet Disposition Postal Service - Such Great Heights Phoenix - ... http://floridabackyard.org/2010/01/28/january-2009-playlist-2/ Yes, we still live, hallooo! Had dinner with some old friends last night at the tapas place Cafe Tu Tu Tango in Orlando, wherein Husband was entranced by the Sopa de Leon (a chorizo, chicken and chickpea soup), so today's side project was cobbling together a reasonable facsimilie.   And here it ... http://floridabackyard.org/2010/01/10/recipe-sopa-del-stacy/ Busy, busy, busy.  Have a great holiday all! Jackpot - Dizzy Queen - C-Lebrity The Appleseed Cast - Mile Marker The Black Keys - Strange Times Hockey - Too Fake Heatmiser - Trapdoor Band of Skulls - Patterns Ladyfinger - Little Things Glen Phillips - I Want a New Drug Helicopter Helicopter - By Starlight Three Legged Fox - Maybe I'm ... http://floridabackyard.org/2009/12/15/december-2009-playlist/ Oh how I hate grocery store hamburger buns.  They're either tough and chewy (from the bakery), or they're wispy and insubstantial (commercially produced brands).  I make serious hamburgers, people, stuffed with cheddar cheese and crumbled bacon, they need serious buns! Hamburger Buns Ingredients: 5 cups all purpose flour 2 pkgs dry yeast 1 cup milk 3/4 ... http://floridabackyard.org/2009/11/29/recipe-hamburger-buns/ I'd like you to know it is with heroic, er, heroism that I refrained from putting more than one Band of Skulls song on this month's playlist.  Just buy the album, seriously. Oh, and don't watch that Morningwood video at work.  Trust me. Band of Skulls - I Know What I Am The ... http://floridabackyard.org/2009/11/10/november-2009-playlist/ This was to have been July's playlist, then it got hot, and we got laaaazy.  So here it is for October instead.  Even though it's still freaking hot. Owl City - Fireflies Head Automatica - Brooklyn is Burning Modest Mouse - Missed the Boat Spoon - Don't You Evah Simply Red - Sunrise Vampire Weekend - ... http://floridabackyard.org/2009/10/11/october-2009-playlist/ The original recipe is here.  Below you will find our new favorite version, borne out of my inability to accurately detail the ingredients Husband needed to pick up on his way home from work... Ingredients: 2 14oz cans of diced tomatoes 1 lb whatever tomatoes you have lying about on counter or in ... http://floridabackyard.org/2009/09/16/recipe-seriously-better-tomato-bisque/ And not just because it's hot, sticky, weed-choked and otherwise nasty. That's an enormous argiope making a meal of an equally enormous green dragonfly.  I know argiopes gotta eat too, but I draw the line at butterflies/dragonflies.  Time to get out the Lousiville Slugger. Did I mention it's hot, sticky, weed-choked and ... http://floridabackyard.org/2009/08/21/the-backyard-is-a-nightmare/ Yeesh, almost a month since the last post...good thing you're not paying for this, eh? Well, it's hot, as I may have mentioned, and with the kids not here for the summer our routine is shot all to hell.  We did take off for a week in Sanibel right after the ... http://floridabackyard.org/2009/07/19/long-time-no-blog/ As those of you who read a lot of Florida bloggers know...it's frickin' hot out there.  This tends to make us not go out there nearly as often as we did in the spring/early summer, so everything in the garden is officially on it's own. This is fine with the volunteer ... http://floridabackyard.org/2009/06/27/you-grow-the-veg-you-cook-the-veg/