Grandma VanDoren's White Bread Recipe - Allrecipes.com

Grandma VanDoren's White Bread Recipe - Allrecipes.com:

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Notes:

The bread has a very soft crumb with no milk. It calls for far too much yeast. I used half the amount successfully. It should work with 1/3 to 1/6th the amount of yeast and taste better.

Ham and potato soup

I added some carrots and a few leftover mushrooms to this.
http://allrecipes.com/recipe/delicious-ham-and-potato-soup/

'No work' gardening

Information on raised beds, water conservation and a no digging practice.
http://eartheasy.com/blog/2011/04/5-secrets-to-a-%E2%80%98no-work%E2%80%99-garden/

Via Jess Sun

Podcasting

Notes on research for podcasting. 

This article is a little dated but seems accurate.
Using the Internet Archive as storage with a Creative Commons License should work if the license isn't a problem.
Ourmedia.org puts a front end on Internet Archive storage apparently with some blogging around it to make it more accessible, but it may be just as easy to set up a normal blog and use the archive.
Podbean sounds good at first but free account is limited and terms seem misleading.

Update: here is bloggers help page about podcasting http://support.google.com/blogger/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=80259

Feedburner is optional but can enhance the data capture.

Update 2:


Create the index to audio.

1. create blog
2. create web storage account.
3. turn on rss feed from blog for subscriptions
4. for Blogger, enable enclosure tags to allow itunes support
5. optionally register blog with feed burner to monitor usage and add functionality

The audio upload process.

1. capture audio
2. digitize audio, preferably to mp3 (mpeg3)
3. store audio on shared file server.
4. link audio from blog.

Lauren's sweet potato

From Lauren Garland:

I followed this pretty closely with these changes:
Peeled and cut the Sweet Potatoes into large chunks, baked until soft but not mush...I wanted a bit of heft to the mash...
omitted 1/2 cup sugar in the base mashed Sweet Potatoes (I still can't type that without laughing) because I felt they were already sweet enough and instead of pecans I used walnuts.. 

Gourmet sweet potato classic

Potato grow bags

I am trying to grow some of our potatoes in grow bags. Two are store bought, but I wasn't thrilled with the construction or the price, so I hacked together a third from stuff we had leftover, cheap plastic fencing, weed barrier fabric and zip ties.

Easy whole grain flatbread revisited

I've done the flatbread recipe a few times now. The rosemary and onion add a great deal of flavor to an otherwise bland bread.

This is latest version I did:

• 1 cup whole wheat flour
• 1.5 cups water
• 0.5 teaspoons table salt (up to 1 teaspoon coarse salt)
• 1 half large onion sliced thin
• 1 tablespoon fresh rosemary
• 4 tablespoons olive oil

Mix water, flour and salt. Cover and set aside for 30 minutes or up to 12 hours.
Heat oven to 425.
Add oil, rosemary and onions to 10 inch skillet and heat in oven until slightly fragrant. Stir onions and add batter making sure the onions are mixed in. Set temperature up to 450. Bake for 40+ minutes.

The original recipe is here http://content.markbittman.com/node/27

Notes:
This could really use less oil both for the skillet and pan versions.
The 425 degree start seemed to work better for me in getting to fragrant without burning the onions although it may have been making sure the onions were not pushed out to the edges.
My 12 pizza pan doesn't have a tall enough lip for this recipe.
A 9x13 pan should be about the same area as a 12 inch round.
Down scaling by 25/36 or roughly 2/3 should make a 10 inch pan the equivalent thickness (or thinness) of a 12 inch round.