The title is a bit misleading- first I will mention a show we watched called Origins by Nova on PBS. If you are at all interested about the life of our planet- this is the show for you. We found it really facinating! I liked the idea of splitting up the life of earth into a 24 hour clock- it really shows you how recent a visitor muticellular organisms are (like us) and how much of a devistating impact we have had on our lovely planet. We have been happily lending out our video to our friends- it really is a must see show!

On to the garden- I really want to implement a more seasonal gardening strategy. It would make the best use of our space and keep the ever increasing cost of groceries down. So we are planting a Fall crop of garlic. I went to our local Jungs and bought six varieties of garlic- all rather mild in flavor or spicy but none hot. This is suppose to be the best time to plant garlic since it will get an early start in spring- we will see what happens!

For cooking this week we tried some samples our of a free magazine we got in the mail- Cuisine at Home. Our first dish was Chicken Alfredo Lasagna- I don't usually like lasagna- but I could (and did) eat this dish several times a day! I also made a pork stir fry (didn't even use a recipe- just lots of ginger and oyster sauce)- to make the meat tender- make sure to heat up the seasame oil well and then cook the pork- I used quite a large portion of oil- but the dish was great. We also made some more marinara sauce- it is always nice to have a batch for those nights when you just want spaghetti (and now it is so cheap with using our frozen tomato sauce from the garden- it just makes you feel good)!