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12/15/2019

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Planting and Growing African Violets Outdoors.

7/2/2019

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This African Violet was started and is growing outdoors from a leaf planted a year ago(6/18).
In ground outside african violets from the flavs.
Another leaf with a baby is growing next to it under the rubber plant.
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1/4/2019

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                Deluxe Classic Egg Salad Recipe
Ingredients:
2 Tablespoons butter, room temperature
3 oz cream cheese, room temperature
2 Tablespoons celery, minced
1 Tablespoon Mayo (or more if desired)
1 teaspoon onion, grated
1 teaspoon sugar
1/2 teaspoon lemon juice
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/8 teaspoon pepper
6 hard boiled eggs, finely chopped or squished with a fork.
Croissants or Bread
Paprika (optional)
Dill Pickle Relish (optional)
Bacon (optional)
Instructions:
1. In a medium bowl, cream together butter and cream cheese until smooth.
2. Stir in celery, mayo, onion, sugar, lemon juice, salt and pepper until well blended.
3. Add eggs and mix well.
4. Serve on bread or croissants
5. Sprinkle with paprika or add dill pickle relish or bacon if desired.
YIELD: 8 SMALL CROISSANTS OR 4 LARGE CROISSANTS
PREP TIME 15 minute

                        Creamed Corn
SERVINGS: 5

INGREDIENTS
5 cups corn kernels (preferably fresh, but frozen works. Do not use canned.)
1/2 cup sugar
1 tablespoons kosher salt
4 cups water
1/2 stick unsalted butter
1/2 cup heavy cream
Salt and Pepper to taste

DIRECTIONS
1. Put 1 1/2 cups of corn into one pot and 3 1/2 cups of corn into a second pot.
2. To the 1 1/2 cup pot add: 2 cups water, 1/4 cup of sugar, 1/2 tablespoon kosher salt.
3. To the 3 1/2 cup pot add: 2 cups water, 1/4 cup of sugar, 1/2 tablespoon kosher salt.
4. Place both pots on stove and bring to a boil.
5. Drain the 3 1/2 cup pot of corn, return the corn to the pot add 1/4 stick of butter, set
aside.
6. Drain the 1 1/2 cup pot of corn, return drained corn to pot add 1/4 stick of butter
and 1/2 cup heavy cream, bring to a boil, remove from heat, then puree in a
blender or food processor.
7. Add the pureed mixture to the 3 1/2 cups of whole corn and, mix thoroughly, salt and pepper to taste and serve.

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                        Fried Rice
This recipe will be the basics. You can add more or less of the items to suit your tastes.
1 large diced onion
1 large diced bell pepper
1 large cooked and cut into pieces chicken breast
3 cups of raw minute rice cooked to add.
Directions
In a large skillet melt 3 tbls. of butter
add onions and peppers and cook until done.
Shake soy sauce over cooked onions and peppers.
Add chicken and rice and stir everything up.
Season with more soy sauce until you get the taste you want.
Enjoy!

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Anything about being a new member

12/12/2018

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Anything about African Violets

12/12/2018

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                The History of African Violets

In the late 1800's, Baron Walter von Saint Paul was serving as Governor of East German Africa. While there, he found a very unusual variety of flowering plants growing among the foothills and peaks of the Usambara Mountains. There mountains are located 100 miles from the east coast of Africa, reach 8,800 to 9,000 feet above sea level and extend for 75 to 80 miles. The plaints were found clinging to cracks and crevices of rock cliffs as high as 6,500 feet. At the lower elevations in tropical valleys, they grow more abundantly. Temperature and humidity are always  very high where they are found thriving in nature.

The Baron collected several plaints in the northern area of Tanzania. In 1892 he sent seed from them to his father in Germany, who shared the plaints with members of the Royal Botanic Gardens of Germany. It was there that it was determined that an entirely new species had been discovered. The name chosen was Saintpaulia ionatha, the first part of the name honoring it's discover, the second part referring to the flowers as appearing like true violets (even though the two plaints are not related).

During the 1893 International Horticulture Show, African violets shared the spotlight with another newly-discovered exotic - the orchid. Twenty-seven different species of African violets have been given names all of which are native to the African Continent. There are many tropical plants ranging in size from a petite two inches to other several feet tall, closely related to African violets, including gloxinia, streptocarpus, columnea, sinningia, episcia, and achimenes.

Around 1894 the first African violets arrived in the United States. The popularity of the little plants lagged of many years because very little was known about them or the care they needed. In 1927, the Armacost and Royston Nursery in Los Angeles ordered seeds from England and Germany. From these seeds, approximately 1,000 plants were grown. Of there, 10 were selected as the best for use in developing new, improved varieties. Two of the ten selected came from the Germany seed, "Blue Boy" and "Sailor Boy." The other eight were from English seeds; "Admiral," "Amethyst," "Commodore," "Mermaid," Neptune," Norseman," "Number 32," and "Viking." Hybridization has given the African violet hobbyist hundreds of varieties from whitch to choose, all derived from the original choosen ten. 
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