Worth Doing From Scratch: Corn Tortillas

...asy and the results are way better than those dry tortillas you buy at the store. Some things I’ve learned: I have a cast iron tortilla press that works great but my Mexicano friends in the know suggested a wooden press. Making masa from scratch is a huge amount of work and I’ve done just fine with supermarket masa harina. As I like to measure dry ingredients by weight I’ve figured out that for enough tortillas for four people you need to mix 250...

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Save Civilization With a Toilet Auger

...ting. Because of our crappy crapper, my toilet auger and I had a once-a-week conclave. Unlike a regular plumber’s snake a toilet auger has a graceful bend so that you won’t scratch the porcelain. And it works a lot better than a plunger. Go down to your local hardware store and get one today. Or, better yet, make thee a dry toilet and you’ll never have to flush or use a toilet auger again. But until that day and, my brothers and sisters we’re not...

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130 Farm Unfixed with Jessica Rath

...of Design and her previous projects include works about apple breeding, co-evolutionary communication between flowering plants and their pollinators and a long term project called Farm Unfixed that we spend most of this conversation discussing. During the podcast Jessica mentions, Foxfire The meaning of “Unfixed” Nancy Klehm Ozark Regional Land Trust Tending the Wild Braiding Sweetgrass Prescribed burns A Better Nectar Take Me to the Apple Breeder...

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