Making Tofu From Scratch at the Institute of Domestic Technology

...coffee roasting, bacon curing, bread baking, jam and exotic projects like making your own nocino and toothpaste. One of the perks of teaching at the IDT is getting to sit in on some of the other classes. The coffee roasting class changed my life. Now, every morning, I look forward to fresh coffee I roasted myself in a Whirley-Pop Popcorn maker. This past weekend I sat in a new IDT class taught by author Andrea Nguyen on how to make tofu from scra...

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Making Beer in Plain Language

...via the Bad Writing Contest Huh? At least the terminology surrounding beer making ain’t that obtuse, but it certainly could use some simplification. For novice home brewers, such as us here at Homegrown Evolution, the terminology creates an unnecessary barrier as impenetrable as a graduate school seminar in the humanities. Let’s see, there’s a mash, a mash tun, a wort, some sparging, malting, all the while specific gravities are measured and hopsi...

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Edible and Tasty Arugula Flowers

...d plant tomatoes and a few other summer veggies. I may keep some of the arugula that has gone to flower a little longer. Why? arugula flower taste great in salads bees love them arugula self seeds readily The flowers, which taste like the leaves, are a reminder of my favorite time of year: arugula season. Each year I curse myself for not planting more arugula. Do you have a favorite edible flower?...

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Saturday Tweets: The Earth Laughs in Flowers

...ttps://t.co/DBZAsfwYuw via @wnep — Root Simple (@rootsimple) August 26, 2016 "Smells like trash," replied Tim when I asked him to smell his first starfish plant flower… https://t.co/tFqaB2V6TP pic.twitter.com/p8oaMXYezP — The Horticult (@TheHorticult) August 25, 2016 "The earth laughs in flowers." Ralph Waldo Emerson. The Poet's Garden, Vincent van Gogh, 1888. pic.twitter.com/u8yxJjNck9 — Bibliophilia (@Libroantiguo) August 21, 2016 how to sha...

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Saturday Tweets: Eating Flowers, Peach Mustard and the Patron Saint of Dentists

.../SLqvn0G9Fh — HarvardPublicHealth (@HarvardChanSPH) August 26, 2018 Eating flowers seems almost heretical. If plants could talk, wouldn't they say, you can look, even sniff, but please don’t wolf down my pretty petals? https://t.co/ldbPSpCSmc — Modern Farmer (@ModFarm) September 1, 2018 Gracias al amor por las bicis, muchos pandilleros dejaron la violencia para apostarle a la paz en la Ciudad de México. pic.twitter.com/gORixD7zG3 — AJ+ Español...

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