The Wisdom of the Gaucho

You can probably easily imagine the appeal of fresh fruit trees in your backyard. Having oranges, apples, plums, pears, and even avocados available right at your fingertips is the dream of any fresh food enthusiast. Unfortunately, very few people have the space, time, or confidence to plant numerous fruit trees in their yard. The truth is though that with even a little bit of room, some creativity, and plenty of research on the front end, you can successfully have delicious fruit year round. I would love to claim to have come up with these ideas, but the credit lies with a progressive thinking organization named Dave Wilson nursery. Take a look at their website which houses a plethora of great information about planting fruit trees in your yard. The concepts behind Backyard Orchard Culture are truly simple; plant what you enjoy eating, keep trees to a manageable size, embrace successive ripening, and plant what will grow in your yard. Planting fruits that you enjoy eating se...

A resume is your first impression to a potential employer, it should be professional, concise, and 100% error free. There are a few things to keep in mind when crafting your resume.  - Keep it simple. The general rule of thumb for a resume is one page for every ten years of experience. If yours is longer than this, seriously consider paring back some of the extraneous information and boiling down to the essentials. If your resume is shorter than this, try to beef it up with more pertinent eye catching information.  - Keeping it simple also pertains to formatting. Keep the formatting clean, and simple, avoid complicated bullets and outline schemes. Keep in mind that the employer may save it using a newer version of Word, or another word processing software and all your formatting could be lost.  - Be proud of your accomplishments and don't be afraid to embellish a bit, but realize that there's a fine line between embellishing and lying. Were you the only ...

Cooking and baking for a person with Celiac Disease has required a lot of adjustments in the kitchen and modifications to recipes - some big changes, some very minor. More than eight long years of culinary tinkering has shown me that certain recipes have been easier to make gluten free than others.  My personal quest for the perfect gluten free chocolate chip cookie recipe finally led me to the following recipe that is both delicious and reliable. It has been tested and retested, and my waistline will attest to the fact that it produces a soft, moist chocolate chip cookie that is so good, you wouldn't know it was gluten free. The following recipe for gluten free chocolate chip cookies uses Pamela's Baking Mix as a substitute for a gluten free flour mix. Pamela’s Baking Mix is a little bit pricey, but when the cookies come out moist and delicious, and everything that you would expect from a chocolate chip cookie, you won’t care. Warm and gooey out of the oven with ...