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Fava Fava Fava

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Gardening, Vegetable Gardening
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Fava bean mania has descended upon the Homegrown Evolution compound this spring. I can’t say enough good things about fava beans (Vicia fava): they taste good, the plant fixes nitrogen into the soil, making it an ideal cover crop, and it’s attractive. If harvested small you can eat fava raw but I prefer to remove the skins and briefly boil the seeds (around five minutes). Once boiled, fava can be used in a variety of dishes from soups to salads....

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Supper for a buck?

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Bean Fest, Food
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...cheap. Dried beans run about $1.50 a pound where we shop. One pound of dry beans makes about 6 cups of cooked beans. That’s a lot of food. I’m not going to try to do the math and add up the costs of the onion and herbs and olive oil I add to the beans. And I surely don’t have the patience to figure out the cost of the salad from our garden (do I have to figure in the mortgage?), but I do know that around this time of year I could forage a salad fo...

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One Secret for Delicious Soup–A Parmesan Cheese Rind

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Food, How-to
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...hard rinds. They are magic flavor bombs. All you do is add them to soup or bean dishes. Add them at the start of cooking, because they need a good long while to soften up and release their flavor goodness. They don’t make the dish taste cheesy, but rather add that elusive umami (rich, savory) character to the dish. I think it would be redundant to use the rind if you are already using meat or bacon fat or the like in your soup, but for vegetable-b...

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Who Wants Seconds? Book Giveaway

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Food, Recipes, Reviews
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...ies, Waldorf salad, peanut butter blondies, sweet potato lasagna and white bean soup. We’re giving away a copy of Who Wants Seconds? to a lucky Root Simple reader. To enter the contest just leave a comment on this post–just tell us if you’re an omnivore, vegetarian or vegan. We’ll select a winner by generating a random number and matching that to the comment order. We’ll announce the winner on Friday and the winner will need to email us their addr...

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Saturday Linkages: Can We Please Have More Underpass Chandeliers?

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Saturday Linkages
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...rgin Suicide: Olive Oil Corruption Slide Show http://nyti.ms/1f7yHcI Black Bean Soup http://feedly.com/e/lPhvrdNB Meet the Bakers: Louie and Clinton Prager http://feedly.com/e/KsUR-_dv Poultry Show Common Sense http://feedly.com/e/YNk88kWG Bee Colony Adapts to Human Environmental Impact by Using Plastic to Build Nests http://inhabitat.com/bee-colony-adapts-to-human-environmental-impact-by-using-plastic-to-build-nests/ … Thin Wall Earthbag — 10x Fa...

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