The offshoot blog idea is simply this: just copy what you have already done regarding chickens and eggs etc onto the new blog. Whenever you have a new related article for your regular blog, just ship it to the new one (no need to write a bunch of new stuff). There is alot of interest in these topics right now.

Anita,
That’s a good idea about the off-shoot blog…we’ll see…blogging has a time commitment to it that sometimes we don’t even have for this one.
As far as the recipe, I didn’t write it down but it is around these lines:

1-2 cloves finely chopped garlic
About a quarter cup of butter
About 1 and 1/2 cups milk (we didn’t have cream on hand for this off-the-cuff dinner)
Flour or corn starch
Shredded cheese maybe about 1-2 cups depending on how cheesey you like it (Parm if you have it or other white cheeses are fine, we had pepper jack and a little parm)
A little salt, pepper and your favorite spices (basil, Italian seasoning) (as desired -usually parsley is a mainstay)
Chopped broccoli, red peppers, shrimp and other additions as desired

Saute one or two cloves of chopped garlic in the butter
Add milk and spices warming to almost boil
Add cheese until it melts and blends in
Slowly add the starch or flour to thicken the mixture (with cream you might not need this step)
Add the chopped additions – shrimp last so that it doesn’t shrink too much
Taste it and add here and there as desired…(that’s how I do it anyway)

That’s pretty much it…I thought it was delicioso! The amount of garlic and butter made it very rich, like lobster tails in butter or shrimp scampi. Yum