The Best Way to Bake Pizza in a Home Oven

...n safe skillet (I like cast iron) over high heat on a burner. Put a little oil in the pan. 2. Plop your shaped dough into the skillet. Top your pizza while it cooks in the skillet for three minutes. 3. After three minutes stick it under the broiler for another three more minutes or until done. That’s it. This method works much better than trying to bake pizza on a pizza stone. 4. Take the pizza out and let it cool down for a minute. Then slice and...

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What are trees worth?

...storm water, they pull the filth from our streets into the soil, and the soil cleans it, pro bono. (This is one of the many benefits of healthy soil, another important player in environmental health.) If that storm water runs unchecked, it just dumps all of the oil and fertilizer and insecticides and poo straight into the nearest waterway. Trees absorb and store carbon, directly mitigating climate change–and they indirectly mitigate the change as...

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So Cal Alert: Polyphagus Shot Hole Borer

...in) 12. English Oak (Quercus robur) 13. Coast live oak (Quercus agrifolia)* 14. London plane (Platanus x acerifolia) 15.Cottonwood (Populus fremontii)* 16. Black cottonwood (Populus trichocarpa)* 17. White Alder (Alnus rhambifolia)* 18.Titoki (Alectryon excelsus) 19.Engelmann Oak (Quercus engelmannii)* 20. Cork Oak (Quecus suber) 21. Valley oak (Quercus lobata)* 22. Coral tree (Erythrina corallodendon) 23. Blue palo verde (Cercidium floridum)* 24....

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Saturday Tweets: Garden Yeti!

...rSVhgA — Root Simple (@rootsimple) February 18, 2015 The Fiery Underground Oil Pit Eating L.A. http://t.co/bhb0dt6xXh via @thedailybeast — Root Simple (@rootsimple) February 20, 2015 How Modern Genotypes and Processing Impact Wheat Sensitivity http://t.co/qD9ECgX125 #crumbshot #glutenfree #wheat — Root Simple (@rootsimple) February 19, 2015 Move Over Man Caves – There’s a New Trend on the Rise: Bar Sheds http://t.co/aLTmfcHdSS via @sharethis — Roo...

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Take a Summer Viking Break

...is means it’s the perfect time for a Viking break. Back in 2010 Norweigian oil tycoon Sigurd Aase funded the construction of a brand new badass Viking longship, the Draken Harald Hårfagre. It’s the first Viking longship with its own website and gift store. The ship made it to the U.S., a reminder that Columbus wasn’t the first European to make that particular journey. Please kick back this weekend and take your own Viking break. I recommend the sh...

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