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On Office Comfort and Energy Efficiency - Sweating or shivering 9 to 5 at work? Small business or home office? Get comfy, save money, cut carbon! #office #frugal #thermostatWars - https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-office-comfort-and-energy-efficiency.html

On Office Comfort and Energy Efficiency - Sweating or shivering 9 to 5 at work? Small business or home office? Get comfy, save money, cut carbon! #office #frugal #thermostatWars - https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-office-comfort-and-energy-efficiency.html

On Office Comfort and Energy Efficiency - Sweating or shivering 9 to 5 at work? Small business or home office? Get comfy, save money, cut carbon! #office #frugal #thermostatWars - https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-office-comfort-and-energy-efficiency.html

On Office Comfort and Energy Efficiency - Sweating or shivering 9 to 5 at work? Small business or home office? Get comfy, save money, cut carbon! #office #frugal #thermostatWars - https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-office-comfort-and-energy-efficiency.html

On Office Comfort and Energy Efficiency - Sweating or shivering 9 to 5 at work? Small business or home office? Get comfy, save money, cut carbon! #office #frugal #thermostatWars - https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-office-comfort-and-energy-efficiency.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
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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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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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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.

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@wendythedruid @#Pickling@thistleandmoss.org @#Fermentation@thistleandmoss.org @#NoWaste@thistleandmoss.org @#FridgePickle@thistleandmoss.org @#Cooking@thistleandmoss.org @#FoodJustice@thistleandmoss.org @#SlowFood@thistleandmoss.org @#KitchenWitch@thistleandmoss.org @#Frugal@thistleandmoss.org @#Photography@thistleandmoss.org @#Homestead@thistleandmoss.org @#EatTheWeeds@thistleandmoss.org @LibertyForward1 Or you can just put whatever it is in a bowl of water in the fridge.