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Book Review: A Feast of Weeds by Luigi Ballerini

Mr. Homegrown
Food, Foraging
7 Comments
...succeeding) and the buying, pretending not to know, and not giving a damn about others with which his political heirs pursue that same design. Each chapter profiles a common foragable plant and includes a set of Italian style recipes for what to do with them such as spaghetti with nettles and purslane frittata. The wild plants Ballerini writes about are found in Italy, but most (minus capers, sadly) can be found all over North America. This is no...

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Indigo 101

Mrs. Homegrown
Domesticus, Gardening, Herbs
5 Comments
...a while to get started, others are built quickly on chemicals. The simplest is nothing more than urine and indigo powder. For instructions on several different kind of vats see The Art and Craft of Natural Dyeing: Traditional Recipes for Modern Use by J.N. Liles. Other recipes can be found in the beautiful Shibori: The Inventive Art of Japanese Shaped Resist Dyeing by Yokisho Wada.  Definitely check this last book out of the library if you’...

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The Pressure is On

Mr. Homegrown
Food
14 Comments
...ven those newly published, seemed stuck in the 1950s tuna noodle casserole era, when pressure cooking was last popular. Thankfully, a friend sent us a copy of Pressure Cooking for Everyone by Rick Rogers and Arlene Ward. The recipes are simple and I’m especially fond of the squash risotto and vegetarian chili. Speaking of vegetarian, the recipes in this book are on the meaty side (Kelly is a “fishatarian” and I simply don’...

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Low Sugar Prickly Pear Jelly Recipe

Mr. Homegrown
Food, Recipes
71 Comments
...s make an orange fruit that matures in August. I love the taste of the fresh fruit, but it’s a bit of an acquired taste due to the abundant seeds and the nasty spines (technically called glochids). Unlike a lot of jelly recipes floating around the interwebs, I guarantee that this one works. It basically follows the ratios and instructions for red raspberry jelly as detailed in the Sure Jell pectin box. In my experience with jam and jelly re...

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Tartine Bread

Mr. Homegrown
Bread, Food
10 Comments
...moist doughs, no kneading and a long secondary fermentation in a refrigerator. Best of all, Robertson has adapted his methods for the home kitchen in a lavishly illustrated book Tartine Bread . Like the popular no-knead bread recipes circulating the interwebs, you bake your bread in a dutch oven, which simulates the steam injection of commercial ovens–the secret to a thick crust. But with naturally leavened breads such as the recipes in Tar...

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Fall 2012 Adobe Classes With Kurt Gardella

Mr. Homegrown
Events
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...lization techniques (lime, cactus juice) hand application techniques of mud plasters (base coats, patching) hawk & trowel application of mud and lime plasters (leveling and finish coats) basic mud plaster ingredients and recipes basic lime plaster ingredients and recipes calculating surface area to be finished and materials needed troubleshooting mud and lime plasters (cracking, adhesion problems, etc.) Floors for Adobe Structures: historica...

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Four Ways to Preserve Prickly Pear Pads (Nopales)

Mr. Homegrown
Food, Food Preservation, How-to, Recipes
14 Comments
...Center for Home Preservation for my pickled nopalitos. They turned out very tasty. Pressure Canned Prickly pear is sold canned both in water and with a small amount of vinegar.  Unfortunately there are no tested home canning recipes for pressure canned prickly pear pads (this needs to be rectified but is difficult in an era of reduced funding for Extension Services). I used a tested recipe for okra and consumed the product immediately as I don&#...

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How Not To Bake Bread

Homegrown Neighbor
Bread, Chickens, Food, Mistakes
22 Comments
Homegrown Neighbor here: So Mr. and Mrs. Homegrown are away on book tour while I’m holding down the fort in L.A. and looking after their chickens. I figured that while they are away and not blogging much, I can step in and entertain you with tales of my epic baking failures. Sure, lots of blogs have pretty pictures of food and neatly typed recipes, but everyone likes a good tale of failure now and then. Now, my neighbor Erik, aka Mr. Home...

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Food Preservation Resources

Mr. Homegrown
Food, Food Preservation
2 Comments
...big batch of jam or jelly that doesn’t set. Yes, you can call it “syrup” but it’s still a big blow to the ego.  My three favorite resources are the National Center for Home Food Preservation which has recipes for all kinds of food from fruit to meat, the Ball Complete Book of Home Preserving and Ball’s website. All of the recipes in these two websites and book follow USDA guidelines. The reason I came up with a pr...

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Hay Boxes or Fireless Cookers

Mrs. Homegrown
Appropriate Technology, Food, Preparedness, Water and Power
23 Comments
...on this technology, but my favorite resource so far is this old book: The Fireless Cook Book by Margaret Mitchell (1909), which is actually both a construction manual and a cookbook–a wonderful crusty old cookbook with recipes for things like Mock Turtle Soup. You can read it online at Archive.org, or download a pdf or even as an e-reader file–for free! Do you have any recipes, tips or techniques to share? Please do! An obligatory n...

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