Stern Sprouted Wheat Vegan Cookie or Health Bar Type Things

...closest I’m going to get to dessert for a while. The recipe comes from the book, From the Wood-Fired Oven by Richard Miscovich, where the recipe is used as an example of what you can cook in a bread oven which has almost cooled off, because these bake at very low temps. Actually, they’d be good candidates for a solar oven. Or even dashboard cooking in the summer! There are four ingredients: sprouted wheat, raw almonds, dried fruit and a pinch of s...

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Analysis Paralysis

...ternet made it worse by providing way too many possibilities. A quote in a book finally broke my analysis paralysis spell. The gist of that quote was that we are all called by a higher power to build. I realized that I needed to set a deadline, get off my ass and construct the raised beds that I had spend endless hours researching, planning and discussing. I told Mrs. Homegrown that this Saturday I was buying lumber and cutting wood. I quickly dre...

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What the Internet Will Look Like After the Zombie Apocalypse

...nd the network is self healing. If one router goes out the other routers take on the traffic. For more info on how to set up a network like this see www.broadband-hamnet.org. or watch this series of videos. There’s also a free e-Book: Wireless Networking in the Developing World. Cat photo kidding aside, this relatively simply hack has potential to help a lot of people. This post was inspired by a lecture given by Gary Wong, W6GSW at the Pasadena R...

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Eat This Blog

...https://youtu.be/J1lZ44dQYmM?si=4t5jZup2cPe6CQSI I have so many questions about this. Was it inspired by Abbie Hoffman’s Steal This Book? Is it some kind of postmodern meta-commentary on the “death of the author” or some kind of new literary Maenad cult? Watch with discretion or you may fall down a Cathy Mitchell hole and discover her other books such as Dump Dinners and Dump Desserts. Thanks to Jimmy C. for the tip....

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