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Salted Spruce Tips and Pine Infused Garlic Salt

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Food, Foraging, How-to, Recipes
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...and see how it goes, because you can always add more. Feline assistance in making the pine garlic salt. A Tale of Two Salts To give you some concrete examples, I made two small batches of salt today. I often make herbed salt in tiny batches that get used up quickly, because I like to experiment. The first one I made was with spruce tips. These are the fresh spring growth of a fir tree, the tender chartreuse tips which stand out in such brilliant c...

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Coffee and Tahini Date Balls

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...best place to buy them will be at a market specializing in Middle Eastern foods. There you will be able to get big fat soft dates for reasonable prices, and they will be fresh. If you happen to live near a Trader Joe’s, they have inexpensive dates as well, though they can be a bit on the dry side. If you live near a co-op or a health food store with bulk bins full of dates, you’re in good shape as well. And if you live in the right region, you ma...

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Pumpkin Spice Apocalypse

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Preparedness
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...will go bad or you won’t know how best to prepare it. Rotate through your food stocks and you’ll know what foods you like and save money while you’re at it. The weekend had a Road Warrior vibe when it became obvious that many or our neighbors had evacuated to somewhere with power, either relatives houses or a hotel. It felt like a preview of future climate uncertainty and a sober reminder of the tasks we have to prepare. At least we have kind nei...

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Paleo Grift

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...ent just gathering food and the total doesn’t take into account processing food, building shelter, childcare etc. Other anthropologists peg the total at around 42 hours a week. And the San don’t live an idyllic life. In reality they are malnourished, don’t forage much anymore and were forced into resettlement areas by the South African government. The Gods Must Be Crazy, it turns out, was more propaganda than comedy. Which brings us to Immerwahr m...

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Saturday Tweets: A Solar Powered Blog, Caravansaries, Moths and Michaelmas

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...things edible, he will be deeply missed. pic.twitter.com/bOzcaZUDeE — Slow Food L.A. (@slowfoodla) September 24, 2018 Ernest Miller Memorial Fund https://t.co/WygShXg1fl — Root Simple (@rootsimple) September 26, 2018 It's Michaelmas and let's not forget its the feast day of St Michael and 'All Angels'. So here are some photos of the Orders of Angels portrayed on the exceptional early 15th-century rood screen at Barton Turf in Norfo...

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