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Get Used to the Idea of Bug Grub

What do you think?  Will you be eating any bugs in the near future?

UA alumnus Patrick Crowley and three of his friends have launched Chapul Bars, a company that grinds crickets, cultivated to feed pets, into a flour that is used to make food for humans. Each 50-gram bar contains 7 grams of protein. The company is developing recipes to make insects palatable... Read More

How to Cook Mexican Rice

This sounds like such a yummy dish!

Mexican Rice, which is ubiquitous throughout Mexico in homes and restaurants, is often called "Spanish Rice" in the USA. But it does not exist as such anywhere in Spain; the only thing it has in common with Spain is the language spoken in both countries. It is generally served as a side dish as part of the main course, and it is not usually spicy.

 

Say 'cheese' or rather grilled cheese. April is National Grilled Cheese month

Say 'cheese' or rather grilled cheese. April is National Grilled Cheese month

When you think of April you think of light showers and flowers (well for those of you who don't live in the desert that is!).  Some think of Easter or even spring break, but how many of you out there are thinking grilled cheese?

Remember these stories the next time you are sitting around shooting the 'bull'

For all those ranchers out there looking for a good laugh, here are two stories you may or may not have heard before.  Both are from the Sonoita website www.sonoitaaz.com funny story page.

STORY 1:Two old Arizona cowboy friends had scraped enough money together for a ranch.  They bought a few head of cows from their neighbors but needed a good strong bull.  Zeke had family in the east that he wanted to visit, but he and Keats agreed that he would stop at a ranch in Texas to buy a bull they'd seen advertised. 

Horse starves due to owner's lack of money

Horse starves due to owner's lack of money

By Karen Pomroy of Equine Voices Rescue & Sanctuary,

As I watched this horse step out of the trailer, I was horrified at the condition of this gentle soul and wondered how anyone could allow this horse to end up in this condition.

I was told he was used as a therapy horse, and the woman who had him could not afford to continue feeding him.

2 more wild horses found wandering Sahuarita neighborhood

2 more wild horses found wandering Sahuarita neighborhood

By Karen Pomroy of Equine Voices Rescue & Sanctuary,

In our continuing saga, two more wild horses unexpectedly turned up at Rancho Resort in Sahuarita, Arizona.

On August 31st, Rudy, from Arizona Livestock, delivered them to Equine Voices hoping these two beautiful young stallions would be able to join the “Band of Brothers”, the original four that now reside in Aravaipa Canyon, northeast of Tucson.  David Rychener, from Trail’s End Ranch, graciously cleared his calendar to transport the horses to their new home. 

Green Valley man, 86, survives pruning shears impalement

Green Valley man, 86, survives pruning shears impalement

(AP) - Hospital officials say an 86-year-old Arizona man is extremely lucky after he accidentally impaled himself with pruning shears.

University Medical Center said Monday that Leroy Luetscher of Green Valley was working in his yard on July 30 when he dropped a pair of pruning shears.