How do I get started baking bread?

...Baker’s book. Want to make a Tartine style loaf without reading a hundred pages of directions? No problem, that’s also in the book. Wan’t to graduate on to a style of whole wheat/sourdough breads pioneered by people like Baker and Miller? He’s got you covered. If that’s not enough, Baker also shares the excellent Cooks Illustrated Chocolate Chip cookie recipe as well as a recipe for moist scones (no, scones don’t have to be as dry as dog biscuits...

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Nopales Season

...p a pad (one pad per person). Boil for 10 minutes. Next, put 1/3 cup whole wheat flour, 2/3 cup cornmeal, 1 teaspoon chili powder, salt and pepper in a bag and shake with the boiled chopped nopales. Fry up in a pan and you’ve got a delicious side dish. One of the charms of the prickly pear cactus, in addition to the food it provides, is its ability to survive drought and fend off pests. Sadly, it’s not as indestructible as it seems. The cactus mot...

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A Tour of the Homegrown Evolution Compound

...ut we go to the supermarket just like everybody else–there’s no room for a wheat field after all, nor do we grow coffee or a host of other necessary staples. But, we seldom buy greens at the store, and almost never buy herbs or eggs–we’ve got that taken care of in the garden. In the summer we have lots of tomatoes, and right now we have a few avocados. When the fruit trees mature in a few years we’ll have fruit. We’re hippies. Don’t get us wrong,...

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105 GardenNerd’s Tips for Organic Gardening Success

...on’t pull your bolting vegetables! Ollas What to do with zucchini? Growing wheat Hugelkultur When to harvest watermelons Messina’s squirrel stopper Rats! America’s Best Gardener Competition Christy’s website is GardenNerd. You can also connect with Christy on Facebook and Twitter. If you want to leave a question for the Root Simple Podcast please call (213) 537-2591 or send an email to [email protected]. You can subscribe to our podcast in the...

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Saturday Linkages: Covid and Non-Covid

...t the Toilet Paper Shortage This Pandemic Is Not Your Vacation Take a break from the covid links: Make your own chalkboard paint with Eric of Garden Fork (and send Eric some love–one of his dogs passed on this week) Masoor Dal (Spiced Red Lentils) Recipe Whole Wheat Sugar Cookies The Eruption of Mount Edgecumbe Fall into a German symbolist interweb hole: Nibelungenhalle and Walpurgishalle Free opera all the time thanks to the Met–watch Verdi’s Mac...

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