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Introducing the Dehydrated Kimchi Chip

Mr. Homegrown
Fermentation, Food, Food Preservation
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...have loads of kimchi at home, on account of the family business, so we started dehydrating our original spicy kimchi to halt fermentation when a batch was about to turn overripe.” How do you make kimchi chips at home? It̵7;s simple, according to Harikul, “We use an American Harvest Snackmaster dehydrator that was given to us by a fellow Freecycler. Lay the kimchi out on two trays and dry it on high for 12 hours. Easy peasy.̶...

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California Homemade Food Act Signed Into Law!

Mr. Homegrown
Thoughtstylings
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...rates that thinking locally and picking a fight that can be won, can really make a difference. Correction: the first version of this post had a picture of canned citrus with the caption “soon to be legal to sell.” It seems that whole canned fruit is not on this approved list for this bill. I”m looking into this issue, as canned citrus is considered by the USDA to be a non-hazardous food....

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Grab and Go

Mr. Homegrown
Preparedness
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So it̵7;s time to go over what̵7;s in the SuriviveLA compound grab and go bags. These are the backpacks we have for each person here just in case we find ourselves surrounded by zombies and decide its time to run. Conveniently our grab and go bags are the same ones we use for hiking and backpacking. In fact the contents of the bags are based on what the Sierra Club used to call the “Ten Essentials“, which has now been expande...

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The World’s First Lamp

Mrs. Homegrown
Design, Domesticus, How-to
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Erik̵7;s link to the orange lamp on Saturday reminded me to post this. This is Project #1 in Making It, and we often open our lectures by building one of these, but I realize I̵7;ve never talked about oil lamps here on the blog. Forgive the somewhat atmospheric photo. What you̵7;re looking at is the simplest thing in the world: an oyster shell filled with olive oil and balanced in a small dish of sand. Three pieces of cotton stri...

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It’s Calendula Season!

Mrs. Homegrown
Body Care, Domesticus, Gardening, Herbal Medicine, Herbs
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Just a reminder to you all that Calendula officinalis (aka Pot Marigold) is super-easy to grow in the garden. Why should you grow Calendula? To make Calendula infused olive oil, of course– as I̵7;m doing above, with inevitable feline assistance. Well, that̵7;s why I grow it. Calendula infused olive oil is the base of all my lotions and potions, because it is such a potent healer of dry, itchy, burnt or otherwise irritated skin. I&...

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Return of Recipe Friday! Spicy Korean Tofu

Mrs. Homegrown
Food, Recipes
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Ummm…Our food stylist is on vacation! This was lunch today. It would look much better if the tofu sheets were reclining whole on snowy rice and artfully sprinkled with green. We̵7;ve been eating a lot of this lately. It̵7;s Erik̵7;s favorite meal these days, in fact. I make it for him whenever he̵7;s grumpy and he perks right up. I like it too, and I especially like that it̵7;s fast cooking and I usually have a...

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The Sound of One Hand Snapping

Mr. Homegrown
Tools
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...as a spring connecting the two ends which consist of a center punch and a nail set. You hold one end against a nail and pull the spring back. The spring bangs one end into the other, thereby driving the nail. We̵7;ve used it for years, and driven hundreds of nails with it, hanging molding, fixing windows, making furniture, and countless other tasks. It̵7;s possible, in fact, to drive nails with this thing without using a hammer and itR...

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Summer of Solar Cookin’

Homegrown Neighbor
Solar
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Homegrown Neighbor here: I was lucky to recently receive a really nice solar cooker from a family friend. Apparently it had been sitting in her garage for a while, and I was happy to take it off of her hands. The model is called an SOS Sport. It is a box style cooker with a black interior and clear, insulated lid. It also has a removable reflector to help concentrate the light in the box. The reflector is helpful, but I̵7;ve seen the tempe...

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Solar Light Hack

Mr. Homegrown
Design
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We wanted a solar powered light over our new entrance arbor. The problem is that most of the lights available are just plain ugly. And the solar panels on the cheaper models are usually mounted on the light itself making it impossible to place them in a shady spot. I came up with a simple solution. First, I bought an inexpensive solar light intended to be mounted on a fence. I took it apart and desoldered the LEDs off the circuit board. Nex...

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Did Kelly follow her 2012 resolutions?

Mrs. Homegrown
Miscellaneous
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I cringed when Erik said he̵7;d be reviewing his resolutions today, which meant I̵7;d have to take the walk of shame and review mine. Actually, I couldn̵7;t even remember what I̵7;d said I̵7;d do, but at the same time, I was pretty sure I̵7;d not done any of it. If 2012 had a theme, it would be “wheel-spinning” — or at least that̵7;s how it felt to me. Now that I̵7;ve read over what I wrote last...

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