An Easy and Healthy 100% Whole Rye Bread Recipe

June 24, 2014

...andreou from How to Make Bread Ingredients Day One Before going to bed mix: 150 grams/1 1/4 cups dark rye/pumpernickel flour 150 grams/scant 1/2 cup rye sourdough starter 200 grams/3/4 cup plus 1 tablespoon cold water Let sit overnight at room temperature. Ingredients Day Two In the morning when you wake up mix in the dough from the previous night with: 200 grams/1 1/3 cups dark rye/pumpernickel flour 1 teaspoon salt 150 grams/2/3 cup hot water 1...

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Creating a Moon Garden

Mr. Homegrown

July 17, 2014

Design, Gardening

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...t pollinators and other wildlife. Bornstein had a number of great tips for making a garden interesting at night: Consider color. White flowers, of course, will pop out under moonlight. But yellow flowers stand out even more. We’re lucky in Southern California to have a lot of native plants with silvery grey leaves (an evolutionary adaption of dry climate plants). Masses of silvery grey leaves stand out well at night. Include a contrasting backgrou...

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Dovetails by Hand

Mr. Homegrown

March 5, 2024

Design

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...d, outdated hand skills just for the sake of those skills. You can make perfectly serviceable drawers entirely by machine but if you have the time and are making things for yourself not for work, I think doing it by hand is the way to go....

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