Growing Pink Oyster Mushrooms

...pink color when you heat them, they are still a colorful yellow hue after cooking. So far I’ve grown pearl, blue and pink oyster mushrooms. My favorite for flavor and texture was the pearl oyster but the other two are a very close second. I’m going to grow pink oyster mushrooms again soon and like that you can grow them here in the summer. I need to improve step 4. The difficulty with getting mushrooms to fruit is that they benefit from humidity...

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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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Apron Contest Winner

...ourse. She even makes her own recipe books of tasty treats. In addition to cooking she notes, “I am also in printmaking, so this apron can come with me to my art classes to make the bindings for the recipe book for the recipes that Apron and I were JUST working on! It is an artistic, apron-centric circle of life.” Congrats, Katie. I’ve got a batch on jam on the stove, so I’d better finish this post and get to canning. I’m putting on my apron now…....

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Cook With Internet Shaquille

...nom de guerre, Internet Shaquille. He posts pithy, frugal and to the point cooking videos covering everything from hummus to coffee. https://youtu.be/MWveIltRyYc I’m partial to his take downs of expensive pre-made meals such as smoothy purveyor Daily Harvest, https://youtu.be/2GQmlZHNA28 and Scam Like Me, Get Blue Apron for Free. https://youtu.be/osv72OeCpR0 He’s also got some solid advice on how to make a restaurant quality burrito at home. So le...

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On the 100th Birthday of Our House: The Past and Future of Housing in the U.S.

...bout sharing an apartment with relatives. Or getting your not-in-my-backyard neighbors to agree to a bus-only lane on an already congested boulevard. Or democratizing the workplace to ask for fewer hours for more pay to allow more time for cooking and child care. Or revisiting the bungalow court, granny flat or, gasp, looking to multi-generational communal living. These are tough ideas to contemplate from the luxury of our quiet and comfortable bu...

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