Good Eating Monday: Allspice
Greetings! Today we went to the fitness center. I do Zumba. Hubby rides the exercise bike. Then, once home, I did a some mowing, mostly under the picnic table, since hubby was available to help me move it out of the way, then replace it. I refilled the hummingbird feeder with a commercial hummer food. They didn't seem to like my homemade--though I used the correct ratio of water to sugar. I have a cage suet feeder Ii'v filled with short pieces of yarn for the birds to use for nesting. Most of it happens to be red yarn. Interestingly, we saw a female hummer helping herself to some of that red yard recently! Really, she's the first taker I've seen interested in it. Today's Good Eating topic is another spice: Allspice! Allspice is often confused with Cloves, but that's because it also has the same eugenol oil in it. Allspice contains more then 2 dozen compounds with healing qualities. In it's natural form, raw Allspice is a pimento berry about th...