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Irish Soda Bread

Mr. Homegrown
Bread, Food
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...d with the recipe my comrade in arms decided to post as representative of the best of quick breads. For years IR17;ve been making a much better whole wheat-ish quick bread (which he seems to have forgotten) and this is how it goes: Irish Brown Soda Bread 1 3/4 c. all purpose flour1 3/4 c. whole wheat flower3 T. toasted wheat bran3 T. toasted wheat germ2 T. old fashioned oats(note: change up or skip these nuggety bits as necessary–they ju...

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Saturday Linkages: Pig’s Milk, Hot Sauce, Clutter

Mr. Homegrown
Saturday Linkages
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...ports on Use of Non-Traditional Materials for Crop Production: http:// extension.agron.iastate.edu/compendium/ind ex.aspx  …   Cross-contamination: washing chicken or any meat is a bad idea | barfblog: http:// bit.ly/M4pybB   Making hot sauces with wild plants: http://www. urbanoutdoorskills.com/wildfoodlab.ht ml  …   How to Restore an Heirloom Axe | The Art of Manliness http:// artofmanliness.com/2012/07/17/how -to-restore-an-heirloom-axe/  …  ...

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Make a Spore Print

Mr. Homegrown
Mushrooms
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Making a mushroom spore print is a fun activity for the kidlings and itR17;s simple: 1. Pick a mushroom (from the wild or the supermarket) and break off the stem. 2. Put your mushroom, spore side down, on a piece of white paper (or a 50/50 split of of dark paper and white paper to check subtleties in the color). 3. Put a glass over the mushroom and wait 24 hours. The next day you should have something that looks like the picture above. Spore...

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L’hamd markad – Preserved Salted Lemons

Mr. Homegrown
Fermentation, Food
2 Comments
One of the big problems with citrus trees is that you get a whole lot of fruit all at one time. There are two ways to deal with this–share the harvest and/or preserve it. Homegrown Revolution has done both this week by mooching some lemons off of a friendR17;s tree and preserving them by making one of the essential ingredients of Moroccan food, LR17;hamd markad or preserved salted lemons. LR17;hamd markad is easy to make. HereR...

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End of Season Tomato Review

Mr. Homegrown
Gardening, Tomatoes, Vegetable Gardening
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...s raining, thatR17;s how you tell), weR17;ll review what worked and what didnR17;t work. The tastiest tomato award goes to the Pineapple variety pictured above. Not only did this heirloom tomato have the best flavor, it was also the prettiest tomato weR17;ve ever grown, a brilliant yellow with streaks of red in the middle of the fruit when you slice it. And theyR17;re just about as big as a Cadillac Escalade. We saved some seeds a...

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Is Bob’s Red Mill’s Farro Actually Spelt?

Mr. Homegrown
Bread, Food
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...a, “sometimes (but not always) distinguished as farro medio, farro grande, and farro piccolo, respectively.” To add to the confusion spelt and einkorn, are also known as faricella, or “little farro” in Italian. Confused? According to a 1997 article in the New York Times, “Farro, ItalyR17;s Rustic Staple: The Little Grain That Could,” “true” farro is emmer (Triticum dicoccum) and considered superi...

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Barley Water

Mrs. Homegrown
Food, Recipes
26 Comments
Being an American, barley water is not part of my mental landscape. Perhaps it was big in the U.S. back in the Victorian era, but it seems to have faded from our national consciousness. Indeed, if youR17;re one of our American readers, you may be asking now: what the heck is it? My fellow Americans, barley water is a drink made from barley, lemon and sugar, known to be cooling and refreshing in the summer and perhaps somewhat healthy. Meanw...

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Guilt Free Ice Pops

Mr. Homegrown
Food, Recipes
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...al has a recipe for orange blossom water popsicles. They are just fruit, water, honey, lemon juice and some orange blossom water. The Sweet Life has some chocolate dipped peanut banana bars that look amazing. IR17;ve been making ice pops out of Fany GersonR17;s book Paletas: Authentic Recipes for Mexican Ice Pops, Shaved Ice and Aguas Frescas. IR17;ve made a couple of the recipes with just a small amount of sugar or no sugar at all and...

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Garden Design: Quantity vs. Quality

Mr. Homegrown
Design, Garden Design, Gardening
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...that he most talented creative folks IR17;ve met crank out lots of material. So how do we apply the quantity over quality principle to laying out a garden–especially since you often get only one chance a year to get it right? Above you see some of KellyR17;s ideas for the parkway garden we planted in the fall. I think it is at this first point in the process–when youR17;re just sketching out ideas–when itR17;s best...

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