Apron Contest Winner

November 8, 2009

...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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Cichorium intybus a.k.a. Italian Dandelion

Mr. Homegrown

December 26, 2007

Gardening, Vegetable Gardening

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...some time to get used to the first time we tasted this plant. Changing the cooking water a few times if you boil Italian dandelion is one way to deal with the bitterness, but we prefer to just throw it together with some fat in a frying pan, such as olive oil and/or pancetta. We also add some hot pepper flakes for a nice hot counter-punch. Italian dandelion makes a good companion to balsamic vinegar marinated pork or game (squirrels perhaps–they’v...

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Tour de Crap

Mr. Homegrown

February 12, 2007

Bikes

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...ger step and assume responsibility for out own waste as the folks in Scandinavia have done with in-house composting toilets like the Clivus Multrum. In the meantime people, remember that somebody has got to deal with what you all flush and pour down the drain so please don’t put cooking oil and grease down the sink. Not only is this bad for your own plumbing, but it causes clogs in the city’s lines as well. Also keep your pharmaceuticals out of th...

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Saturday Tweets: Eating Flowers, Peach Mustard and the Patron Saint of Dentists

Mr. Homegrown

September 1, 2018

Saturday Linkages

...xposure to the chemicals that are generated by forms of combustion—such as cooking, smoking, and vehicle exhausts—may cause molecular changes that accelerate biological aging. pic.twitter.com/SLqvn0G9Fh — HarvardPublicHealth (@HarvardChanSPH) August 26, 2018 Eating flowers seems almost heretical. If plants could talk, wouldn't they say, you can look, even sniff, but please don’t wolf down my pretty petals? https://t.co/ldbPSpCSmc — Modern Farm...

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Low-Tech Magazine

Mrs. Homegrown

April 19, 2016

Appropriate Technology, Podcasts

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...ur favorite articles: How to Make Everything Ourselves: Open Modular Hardware How to Downsize a Transportation Network: The Chinese Wheelbarrow If We Insulate Our Houses, Why Not Our Cooking Pots? Restoring the Old Way of Warming: Heating People, Not Spaces Recycling Animal and Human Dung is the Key to Sustainable Farming...

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