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You’ve probably never met a soup like this

Mrs. Homegrown
Food, Recipes
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Mushroom and Fruit Soup. Yep. I don’t know if you’re going to like this recipe. I did. Erik made it, which shocked me, because he has a general prejudice against savory fruit preparations. In fact, he has a general prejudice against soup, seeing it somehow as being a substandard food form. Nonetheless, he cooked this soup.  I smelled it first, as it was cooking, and it smelled really good. Then I saw it in the pot, and said, “...

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How to Cook Broadleaf Plantain

Mrs. Homegrown
Food, Foraging, Preparedness, Recipes
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...of their websites feature “food labs” which have some of the most inventive wild food recipes I’ve seen anywhere. On a recent visit to Urban Outdoor Skills, I was very excited to find he’d developed a cooking technique for broadleaf plantain (Plantago major, the common weed, not the banana relative). Though I know plantain is very nutritious, it is also bitter and heavily veined, so I prefer to collect it as a medicinal h...

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Social Media as a Homesteading Tool

Mr. Homegrown
Thoughtstylings
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One of the things I love most about this blog is that I get instant feedback and advice. Yesterday I asked for a source for olive trees and Ginny (thank you Ginny) left a comment with the address of a nursery I did not know about. An hour after reader her comment, I came home with a small Frantoio olive tree. Exactly what I was looking for. I would never have found this tree without blogging. Blogging is a great way to keep notes on what you...

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Radical Homemakers

Mr. Homegrown
Thoughtstylings
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Last year we had the great privilege of meeting and being interviewed by farmer and author Shannon Hayes for her new book Radical Homemakers. Hayes is well known as an expert on cooking grass fed meat–see her website grassfedcooking.com for more on that. Radical Homemakers takes a look at the new domesticity of the past decade through a series of interviews with its practitioners. Touching on issues such as gender roles, food choices and f...

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How to Prep Fabric for Dyeing: Scouring

Mrs. Homegrown
Domesticus, How-to
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...t. My primary sources for this are: The Art and Craft of Natural Dyeing: Traditional Recipes for Modern Use by J.N. Liles The Handbook of Natural Plant Dyes by Sasha Duerr HOW TO SCOUR COTTON You need: 1) A big non-reactive cooking pot, big enough so the fabric will not be crowded. I used our enamel canning pot. 2) Sodium Carbonate aka Washing Soda aka Soda Ash aka Sal Soda.  This can be hard to find. It belongs in laundry aisles, and Arm &...

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Apron Contest Winner

Homegrown Neighbor
Miscellaneous
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...the highlights. She said she would first roll around on the floor and wrap herself up in the apron like a “sexy burrito.” She cooks, of course. She even makes her own recipe books of tasty treats. In addition to cooking she notes, “ I am also in printmaking, so this apron can come with me to my art classes to make the bindings for the recipe book for the recipes that Apron and I were JUST working on! It is an artistic, apron...

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Tree Spinach – Chenopodium giganteum

Mr. Homegrown
Food, Foraging, Vegetable Gardening
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For most of the country planting time is far off but for us, here in the Homegrown Revolution compound in Mediterranean Los Angeles, it’s time to start the winter garden. The billowing clouds of apocalyptic smoke from the fires ravaging the suburban fringes of our disaster prone megalopolis are the only thing that keeps us inside today, giving us time to contemplate one of the seed packets that has crossed our desk, Chenopodium giganteum a...

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Sourdough, Preserves, Barbeque Sauce and Chutney!

Mr. Homegrown
Events
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We’re teaming up with our friend and neighbor Jennie Cook, executive chef of Jennie Cooks A Catering Company to offer a special cooking class on Sunday September 13th at 2 p.m in Los Angeles. We’ll demonstrate how to make sourdough bread and Jennie will cook up a batch of her mouthwatering chutney, barbecue sauce and more. Here’s the 411: “Hang out and cook with the Urban Pioneers who created an oasis in So Cal where the...

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Blue Garlic A-OK

Mrs. Homegrown
Food, Gardening
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...ves were as I worked with them that day. If you want to read up more on this topic, and learn some of the science behind it (I’m too lazy to retype all the big words), check out this garlic fact sheet from What’s Cooking America. Scroll down to the bottom of the page. By the way, the pickles I’m making are tourshi–Armenian pickles. If they work out, I’ll share the recipe....

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Cichorium intybus a.k.a. Italian Dandelion

Mr. Homegrown
Gardening, Vegetable Gardening
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...elative which is also edible). Both Cichorium intybus and its weedy cousin share a powerfully bitter taste that took our supermarket weaned taste buds some time to get used to the first time we tasted this plant. Changing the cooking water a few times if you boil Italian dandelion is one way to deal with the bitterness, but we prefer to just throw it together with some fat in a frying pan, such as olive oil and/or pancetta. We also add some hot p...

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