Moldy Grapes!

...elf!]. I found a recipe attributed to Sally Fallon which called for no pre-cooking at all, just pickling in whey and salt. I saw others that recommended pressure canning and I don’t have a pressure canner. What I ended up doing was blanching the grape leaves before I pickled them, hoping that would soften them up some, but not so much that they would disintegrate when rolled. I was sure to only pick the youngest, freshest leaves. I should have don...

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Weekend Linkages: Verging on Christmas

...Advent Lessons and Carols from St. John’s Episcopal Cathedral Los Angeles Complete Hobo Stove & Cooking Pots System Grow mushrooms in a 5 gallon bucket The mayor knew They don’t want you to know about triple hung curved glass windows Not a collection of mudlarking finds from the foreshore of the Thames. Biscuits...

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Saturday Tweets: Gardens, Grilled Cheese and Infinite Chocolate Chip Cookies

...of @mfgwp. Interview: @BadlyBehavedOne https://t.co/JcFF5rj5VY pic.twitter.com/cOkJp92NPE — Guardian gardening (@guardiangardens) June 10, 2017 Cool! RT @nprfood: An Illustrated Guide To Master The Elements Of #Cooking — Without #Recipes https://t.co/WCm2bur9hX — UC Food Observer (@ucfoodobserver) June 4, 2017 Infinite chocolate chip cookies https://t.co/oxO1rPorJd — Root Simple (@rootsimple) June 8, 2017...

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Saturday Tweets: Dumb Appliances, Chinatown Produce,

...LpI — Root Simple (@rootsimple) May 6, 2017 https://t.co/SKIBofeNZS: Solar Cooking with the Solavore Oven (“Moron’s Mea… https://t.co/gIDicJqrtl — Root Simple (@rootsimple) May 6, 2017 I love how Metro construction downtown has created narrower bike-friendly streets and extra wide pedestrian crossings. Can we keep them? pic.twitter.com/zxe1GfravV — Alissa Walker (@awalkerinLA) May 3, 2017 The Real Reason Chinatown Produce is Crazy Cheap | SAVEUR h...

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Kitchen KonMari Session, Illustrated

...et, not until I’ve tried it. Also, the bag of hair was not stored with our cooking stuff, which would be genuinely disturbing and wrong and taboo breaking, but rather was tucked away in our utility room off the kitchen. Erik rooted it out as sort of a decluttering sideline. I could point out that the very same day Erik clung with equal fervor to his crusty old pasta maker, despite the fact he has owned it for 15 years and made homemade pasta exact...

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