Saturday Linkages: Covid and Non-Covid

...t the Toilet Paper Shortage This Pandemic Is Not Your Vacation Take a break from the covid links: Make your own chalkboard paint with Eric of Garden Fork (and send Eric some love–one of his dogs passed on this week) Masoor Dal (Spiced Red Lentils) Recipe Whole Wheat Sugar Cookies The Eruption of Mount Edgecumbe Fall into a German symbolist interweb hole: Nibelungenhalle and Walpurgishalle Free opera all the time thanks to the Met–watch Verdi’s Mac...

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Adobe in Action Interior and Exterior Plastering Online Course Begins on Monday, Sept. 1st

...ques sifting & preparing & mixing soil and aggregates for earthen plasters wheat paste production for strengthening mud plasters casein production for lime paints natural exterior earthen plaster stabilization techniques (lime, cactus juice) hand application techniques of earthen plasters (base coats, patching) hawk & trowel application of earthen and lime plasters (leveling and finish coats) basic earthen plaster ingredients and recipes basic lim...

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Pizza Dough in a Pan Recipe

...re, go with a high gluten bread flour. You can add a small amount of whole wheat flour but I would not exceed 10%. Pizza is not a health food. It’s a special occasion food and I think it tastes better with white flour. A note on sourdough starter This recipe requires sourdough starter. If you’d like to make one, check out our how-to video. Tools Digital scale (always use a scale!) 11-inch cast iron skillet or other oven proof skillet Thermometer P...

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The KoMo FlicFloc

...field theory. And it’s all thanks to an impulse purchase at an awesome new homesteading supply shop in our neighborhood, The King’s Roost. My credit card discharged from my pocket like ectoplasm at a 19th century seance when I spotted the KoMo FlicFloc. The FlicFloc manually flakes oats, wheat, rye, barley, millet, spelt, rice, sesame, flax seed, poppy and spices. The breakfast possibility it opened to me? Fresh muesli is thy name. Finally a filli...

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