Saturday Linkages: #quarantinecats

March 21, 2020

...An overflowing pot of bean recipes Some guidelines for dealing with coronavirus in your home and community The Cloistered Garden Nassim Taleb on BBC4 on why this is not a “black swan” Some magazines I read: The Idler, The Baffler, Jacobin, Mortise and Tenon, Fine Woodworking, Fine Homebuilding ‘Honest Labour’ – the Column that Named the Book The Mystic And The Warrior Slavoj Zizek, Jordan Peterson and the Toilet Paper Candidate...

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Apron Contest Winner

Homegrown Neighbor

November 8, 2009

Miscellaneous

...ooks 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….the jam is peaches with ginger, zero w...

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137 Corona Crisis With Johnny of Granola Shotgun

Mr. Homegrown

March 30, 2020

Podcasts, Preparedness

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...y end. During our conversation we discuss Johnny’s most recent blog post, “Recipes for Disaster,” which covers his tips and tricks for living frugally and being prepared for a crisis. If you’d like to leave a question for the Root Simple Podcast please call (213) 537-2591 or send an email to rootsimple@gmail.com. You can subscribe to our podcast in the iTunes store and on Stitcher. Closing theme music by Dr. Frankenstein. A downloadable version of...

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Kitchen Alchemy

Mr. Homegrown

November 6, 2008

Food, Recipes

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...d about recently looks mighty tasty and we can’t wait to try her buckwheat recipes recently featured in the Los Angeles Times. She has written a number of books, specializing in cooking with organic ingredients. We also got a visit from farmer and agriculturalist Shannon Hayes of New York’s Sap Bush Hollow Farm. She’s the author of two books on how to cook grass fed meat. Hayes is currently working on a book on what she calls “enlightened homemake...

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Seaweed Foraging

Mr. Homegrown

January 6, 2022

Food, Foraging

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...(Kombu is just the Japanese word for kelp). You can use Kombu in Japanese recipes, as a flavoring in soups and stews, as well as a substitute for Beano. To conveniently harvest Kombu you need three things: Unpolluted water A rocky beach Ultra-low tide (so called “negative” tide) You also need to learn to distinguish between “true” Kombu (Laminaria setchellii) and “false” Kombu (Pterygophora californica). [Editors note: I’m not 100% sure of the sc...

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