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Root Simple’s Favorite New Year’s Eve Cocktails

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Food
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...ount Camillo Negroni, who supposedly asked a bartender to replace the soda water in his Americano with gin, the Negroni has become ubiquitous at many hipster bar hangouts and has many variations. I keep it simple: 1 part gin 1 part sweet vermouth 1 part Campari Stir into a glass with ice and garnish with an orange slice. Manhattan 2 ounces Rye whiskey 1 ounce sweet red vermouth 2 dashes Angostura bitters Place the booze in a shaker with ice, stir...

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Tody: An App that Helps You Clean

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Domesticus, Tidying up
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...our own custom tasks. For instance, I made a reminders to change the cat’s water and sweep the front porch. Setup is simple and the app suggests common sense cleaning intervals (which you can also customize to your own taste). The app generates a daily to-do list and has a kind of red, yellow and green color warning system. The interface is clean and simple, like a well tended house. Other apps that I tried had too many reminders, cluttered interf...

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Saturday Tweets: Bikes, Sacred Lands and Watering Paradise

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Saturday Linkages
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...vember 21, 2014 I love this idea: The Food Lab: Make Your Own Just-Add-Hot-Water Instant Noodles (and Make Your Coworkers Jealous) http://t.co/tsoYuh6lOa — Root Simple (@rootsimple) November 21, 2014 Egg Yolk Color | HenCam http://t.co/c4LCft1Yza via @terrygolson — Root Simple (@rootsimple) November 18, 2014 London’s garden bridge: the public park where groups and cyclists aren’t welcome http://t.co/48RuycNsIt — Root Simple (@rootsimple) November...

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Cichorium intybus a.k.a. Italian Dandelion

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Gardening, Vegetable Gardening
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...e to get used to the first time we tasted this plant. Changing the cooking water a few times if you boil Italian dandelion is one way to deal with the bitterness, but we prefer to just throw it together with some fat in a frying pan, such as olive oil and/or pancetta. We also add some hot pepper flakes for a nice hot counter-punch. Italian dandelion makes a good companion to balsamic vinegar marinated pork or game (squirrels perhaps–they’ve been s...

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