060 Eric of Garden Fork Returns

September 2, 2015

Food, Gardening, Podcasts, Thoughtstylings

...ar maples Building an evaporator for making maple syrup Earth Eats Podcast Cooking “Eisenhower” steaks on coals Crowd funding Amanda Palmer Ted Talk Pie crusts Meditation with the Headspace app New anchor Dan Harris’s panic attack 10% happier app If you want 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. The t...

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George Rector: M.F.K. Fisher’s Dirty Old Uncle

Mrs. Homegrown

February 11, 2016

Recipes, Reviews

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...o say you’d happily read either them even if you have no intention of ever cooking anything ever again. Speaking of casual sexism, I’m particularly fond of the chapter titled “When the Wife’s Away”, which steps befuddled menfolk from the basics of grilling a steak (“Steak is a good thing to begin on; don’t be scared off because it’s one of the aristocrats of the cow kingdom…”), to how to scramble eggs over a double boiler (“that’s the dingus Junio...

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How to Make Your Own DIY Instant Oatmeal

Mrs. Homegrown

March 24, 2016

Food, How-to, Recipes

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...and then flattened with rollers. The other category is quick oats, also called instant or minute oats. These oats have been steamed, flattened and cooked and then dried again so they cook up super fast. You can use either quick cooking or old fashioned oats in this recipe. The main difference is texture. The old fashioned oats will keep some fight. I like that very much, personally. Instant oats will have a softer texture, more like “real” instant...

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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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084 How to Make Your Own Cheese with David Asher

Mr. Homegrown

May 4, 2016

Fermentation, Food, Podcasts

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...ridge to make your own cheese cave. Using leftover whey for fertilizer and cooking. Making chèvre. How to store cheese. The cheese scene in Canada and the legality of raw milk. Raw milk cheeses in Quebec. To find out about David’s classes visit his website The Black Sheep School of Cheesemaking. If you want 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...

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