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freddy

@marijke, I think your fridge looks cool.

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I was super excited that my green zebra tomato plant was looking lush and giant, but now all the fruits have blossom end rot. Google accuses me of inconsistent watering which is TOTALLY TRUE (ouch). I don't know what I am doing! I don't know how to water a tomato plant! Please, can somebody tell me ...

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I miss having stress dreams about anything other than being out in the world and other people are not wearing masks and getting way too close to me.

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Oh now I'm hungry - [mention]infopetal[/mention] I don't have corn but I have the rest and I think I might make it for breakfast tonight. Your hot sauce sounds AMAZING.

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[mention]yourfriendclaire[/mention] & [mention]willowowow[/mention] I have not confirmed this yet, but my bird nerd friend Michelle tells me that if you put out a hummingbird feeder, you must consider it a year-round commitment, because hummingbirds may choose not to migrate south based on the p...

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[mention]marijke[/mention] if you need a home for some of your cherries next year, I'd like to humbly submit my application. I have all these recipes for tart cherries (e.g. sour cherry slab pie), but you can't really get them from the store. Thank you for considering my candidacy!

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Two bird-adjacent recommendations! 1. Wingspan (board game). We just got this and it's very complicated, so I can't really report on the gameplay itself, but it's aesthetically delightful - beautiful bird cards to collect, and tiny wooden eggs, and a little birdhouse you build for the dice. 2. The g...

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I mean, it's not a recipe, but you could saute the onions until slightly caramelized, add the chopped chard stems and cook a few minutes longer, then add corn kernels and chopped chard leaves, cooking until just done. I'd use that as a taco or empanada filling any day...especially if you can get you...

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p.s. lest anyone thing I am humblebragging about what a great housekeeper I am: I am not very good at keeping a house clean! (Especially because if I have time to clean, I would rather put that time towards a cooking project.) But I do love Cheryl's books Home Comforts and Laundry - she's such an ex...

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So, my general take on how to have non-smelly towels is: wash on hot, and make sure it is hung in a way that lets it dry thoroughly after each use (e.g. with good ventilation and not bunched up). I know washing in hot water is terribly unfashionable these days, but I still do it for towels and bedli...

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I thought this LA Times article, about the lack of Black ASL interpreters, and the ways that signing is grappling with, advancing, and expressing the BLM movement, was super interesting and helpful. https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-06-08/how-do-you-sign-black-lives-matter-in-asl-for-bla...

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alexshred420 wrote: ↑Wed Jun 03, 2020 2:53 pm Another neighbor got a bubble-blowing machine so now there are bubbles blowing all the time. Should we get one too??

I think you should! Bubbles just have a very high joy-to-hassle ratio, you know?

freddy

I made my annual batch of Zuni Cafe zuccchini pickles today: https://food52.com/recipes/36398-zuni-c ... ni-pickles. Damn, they're awesome! Great on a burger, or in a grilled cheese with sharp cheddar.

freddy

Did I tell you about the blondies yet? We make this recipe all the time and it's SO easy and SO fast and crazy/dangerously delicious. Highly recommended. https://smittenkitchen.com/2006/11/blondies/

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There is a giant Jake Longstreth painting of Forkner eating a cheeseburger that is visible behind my right shoulder on every Zoom meeting. It's not, like, inapprope, but it is very distracting. I should probably move it...

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[mention]RCH[/mention] You are right! I love to make shrubs. This NYT recipe for raspberry shrub is great, and I use it for most soft fruit: https://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/01/magazine/01food-t-000.html . For quinces, I just make quince vinegar (cut up quinces; macerate in vinegar for weeks; strain;...

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I just put a terra cotta pot upside down and balanced the saucer on top. I change the water every day, and clean it once every few weeks.

freddy

[mention]alexshred420[/mention] Maybe you can fill a sturdy laundry jug with sand or cement? That should work for hammer curls. Or scour craigslist for the Wirecutter recommended adjustable dumbell set, which is what Josh did. Probably harder now tho.

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[mention]alexshred420[/mention] Casey Johnston (“Ask A Swole Woman”) recently recommended the following options for DIY weights: * suitcases, backpacks, or duffel bags filled with books, rocks, cans, or resiliently-packaged beverages * cast iron cookware, perhaps loaded into the bags above * boxes o...

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[mention]alex[/mention] no, the tofu doesn’t dissolve. You might think it would since you cook the crap out of it, but somehow it doesn’t…

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I had okayu (Japanese congee) for savory breakfast last week and it was goooooood. I always make this one recipe because I love the results so much, but it's a very flexible recipe so feel free to mix it up. 1 C Japanese short-grain rice 4 C water 2-3 rounded tablespoons white miso 6 oz silken tofu,...

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I love the Zoo Doo chronicles so much. Perfect example of something that, were it in a TV show or movie, one would dismiss as being "too unrealistic."

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@joni, @tomcarroll.online and I availed ourselves today of the city of Los Angeles’ best-kept freebie: ZOO DOO! The department of sanitation takes herbivore waste from the LA Zoo, mixes it with city plant trimmings, composts it, and then just sloppily dumps it in an unmarked pile for whoever wants ...

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[mention]yourfriendclaire[/mention] your elote pasta sounds super delicious!

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Here’s the recipe I’m talking about, but I think Kenji is a Woke Cooking Nerd, not a MCG: https://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/20 ... ecipe.html

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Josh totally made me those potatoes for my birthday last year, [mention]ritchey[/mention]. They were life-changing. We still have duck fat in the fridge from that momentous day.

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Here's a reliable and tasty banana bread recipe: https://smittenkitchen.com/2020/03/ulti ... ana-bread/

I can't vouch for the results if you replace ingredients or leave them out, though.

freddy

Here's a great recipe to start with, Alex: https://www.food.com/recipe/pickled-green-beans-dilly-beans-182190 I've used it for cucumbers, green beans, and carrots, and they've all been great. I'm sure it would also be fine with beets and asparagus. You can put the resulting pickles up in a hot water...

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Botulism can't grow in an acidic environment (lower than 4.6 pH), so jams, quick pickles, and fermented foods should be fine. You DO need to add lemon juice to tomatoes to get them into the safe zone. Where you need to be worried about botulism is if you're full on homesteader style putting up low-a...

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I'm a lightweight when it comes to fermentation - my preserving consists of compulsive jam-making and quick pickling. But I'm really working down the reserves here; I think I only have like 35 jars of jam/jelly, and maybe a dozen of chutney and pickles. (Compared to years when I easily have 100+ jar...

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I read the audiobook of Mr. Loverman (available through the MultCoLib for those of you Portlanders) and really enjoyed it. For one thing, it's a story about two married people in their seventies, and I just feel like you often don't get novels about a lifetime together. For another, the protagonists...

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Rebecca, your dish sounds amazing!

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I have a question for you all. And I say this as someone who enjoys sauerkraut. But how/when/in what configuration are you eating so darn much sauerkraut? Are you just piling it into a bowl and going to town? Do you have a secret stash of sauerkraut recipes somewhere? Because I have, like, three or ...

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“His stories are based on his own memory with no research” is an amazing thing to print in a newspaper.

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Ooh that picture is annoyingly big. Sorry.

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I totally have a savings bond from my grandmother somewhere. I feel like I saw it recently. I don't really understand what one is! My great-grandmother was named Ariadne Almedia (and here I got the Most Boring Name around when these beauts were available? THANKS MOM AND DAD). Another great-grandmoth...

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At first I was just in athleisure all day because I was like, "I can do 53 minutes of work every hour and then do 7 minutes of pushups and situps!" But that was dumb; I never did it. So then I stopped, and now I get up and work out, then shower, then put on lightly professional clothes (li...

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We still call the library the larbeebee because that’s what I said when I was learning to talk.

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@rch I forgot about our book club!

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Hi Guise, it me, freddy. Still ridin bikes, still makin food. My cat is 16 this year - she tells me she remembers UHX fondly.

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@willowowow reporting for duty! I made a real good grain salad yesterday. I make some variant on this all the time. This one was: Black rice Roasted squash Green onions Made a dressing of tahini, a little too much sambal oelek, chive vinegar, olive oil, a pinch of sugar, and fish sauce (because I pu...

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My favorites are the chickadees. They are so fat and jolly and their heads are comically large for their bodies! https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/assets/photo/60411291-480px.jpg We have one that comes to our window birdfeeder occasionally. He'll come and bully off a house finch or goldfinch, then...

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