#frugal — Public Fediverse posts

Energy Saving Advice for UK Householders - Tips for saving energy, money and the planet at home. #energy #saving #frugal - https://www.earth.org.uk/energy-saving-advice-for-householders.html

On Setting Up a Raspberry Pi Off-grid PV-Powered Server (2014) - How I set up a Raspberry Pi (Model B then B+) after the SheevaPlug. ~1.6W consumption typical, 400x less than my original server rack! #RPi #frugal #offGrid - https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-Raspberry-Pi-setup.html

No ad network, no AI, no sponsor deciding what tone I take. Written by a human, funded by readers, weekly if that suits you better than monthly → https://liberapay.com/wendythedruid/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica

#Cooking #Food #FoodAsMedicine #Cheese #Frugal #CheapEats #Kitchen #MutualAid #Recipe #ZeroWaste #Solidarity #Community #Herbalism
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Here's the part worth knowing: the milk wants to do this. You aren't manufacturing anything. You're letting an acid finish a job that was already half done.

And the light in a kitchen where somebody just made cheese out of heat and a lemon is a particular light. It doesn't require anyone's permission or anyone's brand.

#Cooking #Food #FoodAsMedicine #Cheese #Frugal #CheapEats #Kitchen #MutualAid #Recipe #ZeroWaste #Solidarity #Community #Herbalism
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Off the heat, half a cup of lemon juice or plain white vinegar, stir once, then leave it completely alone for ten minutes while it breaks into white curd and thin green whey. Through a cheesecloth-lined colander, salt it, press it under a plate and a heavy can for twenty.

The whey goes into tomorrow's rice or the cornbread, not the drain.

#Cooking #Food #FoodAsMedicine #Cheese #Frugal #CheapEats #Kitchen #MutualAid #Recipe #ZeroWaste #Solidarity #Community #Herbalism
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Four dollars. About a pound of fresh cheese. Half an hour, most of it waiting.

One gallon of whole milk warmed slow to just under a simmer — 190°, or until it foams at the rim and stops sitting still.

#Cooking #Food #FoodAsMedicine #Cheese #Frugal #CheapEats #Kitchen #MutualAid #Recipe #ZeroWaste #Solidarity #Community #Herbalism
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On Setting Up a Raspberry Pi Off-grid PV-Powered Server (2014) - How I set up a Raspberry Pi (Model B then B+) after the SheevaPlug. ~1.6W consumption typical, 400x less than my original server rack! #RPi #frugal #offGrid - https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-Raspberry-Pi-setup.html

Super-Insulating Our Living Room (2010) - Learn how we retrofitted interior wall insulation for winter warmth and summer cool, and trimmed our carbon footprint. #aerogel #frugal #cutCarbon - https://www.earth.org.uk/superinsulating-our-living-room.html

Pangrattato. Italian grandmothers have called it poor man's parmesan for four hundred years. Cost: nothing. Keeps a week in a jar.

Aran — bread.

What does your house do with the stale end?

#FoodAsMedicine #Cooking #Frugal #MutualAid #Gaelic #ScottishGaelic #Bread #Kitchen #Herbalism #Pagan #Druid #Food
The rest of today's issue → https://thistleandmoss.com/p/what-survives-the-morning-trump-is-dying-and-we-all-get-to-watch#the-nurturing-food-as-medicine?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Wendy-New-RSS
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The heel of the loaf and the two hard slices nobody wanted. Tear them with your hands — never a knife, the ragged edges are the entire point. Dry skillet, medium, a glug of oil, a smashed clove, salt. Six minutes, shaking.

They go the color of a paper bag and the kitchen smells like a bakery.

#FoodAsMedicine #Cooking #Frugal #MutualAid #Gaelic #ScottishGaelic #Bread #Kitchen #Herbalism #Pagan #Druid #Food
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Super-Insulating Our Living Room (2010) - Learn how we retrofitted interior wall insulation for winter warmth and summer cool, and trimmed our carbon footprint. #aerogel #frugal #cutCarbon - https://www.earth.org.uk/superinsulating-our-living-room.html

Put a jar by the stove. Strain the hot bacon fat in. It sets pale and keeps for months.

Most houses pour that down the drain.

That's why your grandmother's potatoes tasted like that. Yours never did.
#Cooking #FoodAsMedicine #Frugal #Kitchen #Southern #Ancestral

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Different plant, same name, do not confuse them.

What's the cheapest real protein in your kitchen right now?

#FoodAsMedicine #Lupini #Legumes #PlantProtein #Cooking #Foodstodon #Nutrition #FoodSovereignty #Frugal #MutualAid #Mediterranean

Today's issue, with the rest of the food notes — free every morning → https://thistleandmoss.com/p/what-survives-the-morning-another-week-that-wont-sit-down-2d2398dcba465b14?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Wendy-New-RSS
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Forty percent protein by dry weight. That's among the highest of any plant food there is, and it costs less than a cup of coffee.

Lupini fed Mediterranean and Andean households for thousands of years before an American grocery store decided they were a novelty in a jar by the olives.
#FoodAsMedicine #Lupini #Legumes #PlantProtein #Cooking #Foodstodon #Nutrition #FoodSovereignty #Frugal #MutualAid #Mediterranean
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@aboutsignal/117054734086971962

Many of my kids want to securely text other kids who have laptops but not a phone plan or a debit card or spare money securely. This will stop that.

This will also make new users think that signal is a greedy company doing pay for privacy.

#signal #money #privacy #kids #security #text #android #sms #thetruth #badidea #budgeting #floss #debitcard #nophone #frugal

Okra sliced thin, dry-hit in a hot pan, three minutes untouched. That's the whole trick, and it's why people think they hate okra. Corn, garlic, tomato till it slumps.

Seven things. Two dollars a head.

What's yours?
#Cooking #Foodstodon #CheapEats #Okra #FoodAsMedicine #Frugal #MutualAid
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