Be Idle

...e like to use mint that we grow in the garden — mint is one of the easiest herbs to grow and we recommend that everyone have a patch or pot of it on their homestead (it tolerates shade, but it can be a bit invasive so stay on top of it or make this recipe often!). We’ve also substituted basil when we have that on hand. 1/2 cup unblanched whole almonds, toasted 1/2 cup shelled salted pistachio nuts, toasted 1/3 cup pine nuts, toasted 1 large garlic...

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Saturday Tweets: From Zines to Hedgehogs

...t back: https://t.co/Qolk4BE0zh — Root Simple (@rootsimple) May 7, 2018 10 herbs you probably haven’t heard of but should grow | Alys Fowler https://t.co/5ZDthQa7H2 pic.twitter.com/yOTRrsvH6V — Guardian gardening (@guardiangardens) May 6, 2018 ‘I had to guard an empty room’: the rise of the pointless job https://t.co/q8RhMn391u — Root Simple (@rootsimple) May 6, 2018 Humility in science communication https://t.co/NAPo2gyqXP via @2020science — Root...

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Saturday Tweets: A Big Excuse to Post Cats with Mustaches

...9IBQ — Theresa Loe (@TheresaLoe) July 27, 2018 Are you saving fresh summer herbs? If not, you should- and here’s how: PIN this tip —> https://t.co/FraTZoP1X1 https://t.co/FraTZoP1X1 — Yvonne Maffei | My Halal Kitchen (@MyHalalKitchen) July 25, 2018 LA’s sidewalks are poorly maintained afterthoughts on unpleasantly wide streets, parking for cars is cheap or free, and we have no trees. Until we change our city, people won’t change their behavior. ht...

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Thomas Pynchon on Pizza

...f the Bodhi Dharma product. Its sauce was all but crunchy with fistfuls of herbs only marginally Italian and more appropriate in a cough remedy, the rennetless cheese reminded customers variously of bottled hollandaise or joint compound, and the options were all vegetables rigorously organic, whose high water content saturated, long before it baked through, a stone-ground twelve-grain crust with the lightness and digestibility of a manhole cover....

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067 Wild Drinks and Cocktails With Emily Han

...r of Wild Drinks and Cocktails and the Communications Director for LearningHerbs.com. Emily’s website is EmilyHan.com. During the show we discuss the difference between “wildcrafting” and “foraging” and how you can use easily foraged herbs, fruits, pine needles and flowers to make shrubs, switchels, tonics and infusions. Emily also shares her easy distillation method and advice on what to do with all those prickly pear fruits! If you want to leave...

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