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Happy World Car Free Day

Mr. Homegrown
Thoughtstylings
1 Comment
...oning the things we all know, the childhood asthma rates of our polluted city, the melting polar ice caps and dying polar bears, the 39,000 traffic fatalities on American roads, and all those folks dying in Iraq to supply the oil that feeds your addiction. So perhaps morning rush hour was not the appropriate time for my Tienanmen Square moment of blocking your forward progress by standing in front of your custom grill to scold you for nearly kill...

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Bean Fest, Episode 5: Black-Eyed Pea Salad (Lubyi Msallat)

Mrs. Homegrown
Bean Fest, Food, Recipes
4 Comments
...omplicated the more you know. Lubyi Msallat 1 cup dried black-eyed peas, soaked overnight1 clove garlic1 tsp saltjuice of 1/2 lemon1 small onion, finely diced3 tablespoons finely chopped parsley1 tsp ground cumin1/3 cup olive oil Cook the beans: Drain the soaking water off the beans and put them in a saucepan. Cover with a couple of inches of fresh water and bring to a gentle simmer. Cook until the the beans are tender (but not mushy), adding wat...

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Return of Recipe Friday! Carrot Soup

Mrs. Homegrown
Food, Recipes
12 Comments
...much flavor. The sweet-spicy flavor and bright orange color also make it an ideal dish for this time of year. Each time I eat it I feel like I’m doing something really good for my body. Carrot Soup 2 tablespoons olive oil or butter About 2 pounds of carrots, peeled and sliced into chunks* (Peeling is optional but the soup tends to be sweeter/less earthy if you peel. To tell the truth. I never weigh my carrots–I use as many carrots a...

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Scarlet Runner Bean Stew

Homegrown Neighbor
Appropriate Technology, Food, Gardening, Recipes
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...ll rather bland. I’m going to eat them for dinner tonight and this is what I’m going to do to flavor them: I’ll keep the pot liquor (the water the beans cooked in). In a separate skillet I’ll heat some oil and saute onions, garlic, maybe a few pieces of celery then add some mushrooms. I really recommend cooking the onions and mushrooms in butter for extra flavor. But since I’m making tonight’s dish vegan, IR...

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Roasted Asparagus

Mrs. Homegrown
Food, How-to, Recipes
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...Trim the pale, woody ends off of the asparagus. Lay the asparagi down on a cookie sheet or in a baking dish–or hey, even a roasting pan!  Somewhere they can spread out in a single layer. Drizzle them with lots of olive oil, then get in there with your hands and toss and massage that oil in, so all the stalks are completely coated. Lay them back down in a single layer. Give them a generous salting and a grind of pepper and chuck the pan in...

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Scrambled Eggs, Tomatoes and Bulgar

Mrs. Homegrown
Food, Recipes
4 Comments
...ulgar wheat (the package may read #1/fine) (aka burghul)*6 eggsSpring/green onions for garnish, choppedoil and/or butter for fryingsalt, pepper, chili pepper Two frying pans, one with a lid *** Start by frying the onion in oil until soft. Then add the tomatoes and salt to taste. Simmer for about ten minutes, stirring occassionally, until the mixture thickens some. Meanwhile put the bulgar in a bowl and rinse it with water until the water runs...

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Vital Farms: Pasture Raised, Organic Eggs at Whole Foods

Mr. Homegrown
Animals, Chickens, Food, Thoughtstylings
10 Comments
Image from the Vital Farms blog. Over the weekend I attended the Natural Products Expo West, a massive health food industry convention. Yes, indeed, Fabio was in attendance selling some sort of powdered supplement and I may have seen Ziggy Marley packing up his own bottles of “Coco’Mon” coconut oil. Such are the indignities one encounters on the downward arc of a career in reggae music or romance book cover modeling. O...

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Growing and Preparing Cardoons (Cynara cardunculus)

Mr. Homegrown
Gardening, Vegetable Gardening
20 Comments
...to prevent discoloration. Next boil the crap out of them. You might also be able to bake the crap out of them, but I have not tried this. I boiled them for 25 minutes. After boiling I fried them in a pan with garlic and olive oil and topped them with salt and Parmesan cheese. They are somewhat bland with a faint taste reminiscent of artichokes. They’d probably taste better paired with a heavy meat dish or as part of a stew. I’ve also...

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Thrive: How Doughnuts Can Save The World

Mr. Homegrown
Thoughtstylings
7 Comments
...her terrible things that happen in this world. So apparently, according to this guru, we can imagine resources into being. This is precisely the sort of delusional thinking that John Michael Greer has warned will show up when oil and food start to get scarce. It’s also the same feel-good philosophy that Barbara Ehrenreich critiques in her book Bright-Sided: How Positive Thinking Is Undermining America. You can find this cult of positive thi...

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Quick Breads

Mr. Homegrown
Bread, Food
6 Comments
...owder1 teaspoon baking soda1/2 cup brown sugar, lightly packed [note: SurviveLA recommends reducing or eliminating the sugar--this recipe is a bit too sweet for our tastes]1 cup walnuts, coarsely broken3 tablespoons vegetable oil1 1/2 cups buttermilk Combine all the dry ingredients. Mix the buttermilk and the vegetable oil in a separate boil. Mix the liquid and dry ingredients together just enough to make sure they are combined. With all quick br...

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