Groundswell | Writings On Media, Culture, Nature, and Community. resilier.fr : comment resilier vos contrats, abonnements ADSL, police d'assurance... Ridiculously Easy Homemade Dill Pickles At my farmer’s market, there’s an amazing pickle stand with about 12 different kinds of delicious homemade pickles. They have garlic pickles, super dilly dill pickles, sweet pickles, spicy pickles and all the flavors in between. I love my pickles so the pickle stand was a weekly must stop for me. …..Until I realized how ridiculously easy it was to make my own homemade pickles. This will literally take you 10 minutes tops and in 3-7 days, you’ll have the best homemade pickles in town. The recipe down below is a basic recipe for old fashioned homemade easy dill pickles and it’s my very favorite, cut right out of a falling apart old, old church recipe book that I think was my grandmother’s (best kind of recipes, right?!). Oh! Ridiculously Easy Homemade Dill Pickles Makes 1 quart sized jar Ingredients: cucumbers 2 cloves of garlic 2 sprigs of fresh dill (the flowered heads of the dill taste the best for these pickles, so use them if you can get them) ½ tsp coriander seeds ¼ tsp mustard seeds
Innocent Down | Documenting Innocent People Killed by Law Enforcement IMBB 6: kelaguen mannok this wednesday, july 21st, is the 60th anniversary of guam's liberation by us forces from japanese occupation in world war 2. although the core of the many events is solemn, it *is* a celebration of and by the local people, known as chamorros. for my first "is my blog burning?" entry, i wanted to submit a chamorro dish in honour of the unique culture of the island. i decided on kelaguen mannok, chicken kelaguen, which is a standard local dish. it is basically a chopped chicken ceviche-type dish with freshly grated coconut, hot red chilis, and onions. however simple it is, it comes with a complex history reflecting guam's native culture, the influence from hispanic, latino, and filipino cultures during its time in the 16th century spanish empire, and the far east asian influence during the japanese occupation in the 1940s. this is what you'll need: this is what you'll do: put all the ingredients in a bowl. mix them up. adjust the acid--is it not lemony enough for you? i hope you enjoy it!
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Mexican Ceviche Recipe | Ceviche Recipes from Around the World Photo Courtesy of Allrecipes.com Serves 6 Ingredients: 2 pounds of shrimp ½ pound of white fish – sea bass fillet for example (dice into ½ inch cube)3 large limes1 small lemon1 medium diced fresh tomato½ small white onion, finely chopped ½ small green sweet pepper, chopped in cubes ½ jalapeño pepper, chopped in cubes ½ buch of fresh chopped parsley or chopped cilantro 1 teaspoon of olive oilsalt and pepper to tastelettuce leaves (to line serving bowls)avocado cut in slices (optional) corn chips (optional) Preparation: In a large bowl, gently mix the shrimp and fish with the lime juice and lemon juice and put it in the fridge for 1 hour or until shrimp and fish are opaque (this step cooks the shrimp and fish). In another bowl mix the tomato, onion, sweet pepper, jalapeño, cilantro/parsley, olive oil, salt and pepper. Mix all ingredients; cover the bowl and chill ceviche in the refrigerator until ready to serve.
Museum of Fine Arts in Boston opens new Art of the Americas Wing Exterior improvements continue at the museum — part of its ongoing efforts to embrace the Frederick Law Olmsted-designed Back Bay Fens, surround the building with greenery, and in so doing, help to rejuvenate the museum's neighborhood. How To Make Kombucha Tea at Home — Cooking Lessons from The Kitchn I've been addicted to kombucha from first sip. It wasn't really the probiotics or other health promises that did it for me — although I'll take those, too! It was the way it tasted: like tart green apple mixed with sour stone fruits, but with an underlying sweetness that keeps it all together. And fizzy! I couldn't believe that something this could actually be made from tea, of all things. Or that I could make it at home with a few very basic ingredients. Kombucha starts out as a sugary tea, which is then fermented with the help of a scoby. The scoby bacteria and yeast eat most of the sugar in the tea, transforming the tea into a refreshingly fizzy, slightly sour fermented (but mostly non-alcoholic) beverage that is relatively low in calories and sugar. Let's talk about that scoby. There are a lot of theories about why the bacteria and yeast form this jelly-like layer of cellulose at the top of the kombucha. Which brings us to the next question: what's actually in kombucha? What You Need
Interactive Narratives - The Best in Multimedia Storytelling and Multimedia Journalism How to Make Kombucha Tea | Make Kombucha Video Prepare the Equipment and Ingredients To make kombucha tea, first gather your equipment and ingredients and prepare the kombucha mixture for fermentation. Equipment. Click here for more information on choosing the best brewing container, cover system, utensils, and more One glass jar (quart, half-gallon, or gallon)A plastic or wood stirring utensil (never use metal in contact with a kombucha scoby!)A breathable cover for the jar such as a tight-weave dish towel or paper coffee filter A rubber band to secure the cover Ingredients. *If you are working with a dehydrated kombucha scoby, please click here for instructions on activating the scoby through rehydration. A note about hygiene. The Basic Process for Making Kombucha Place hot water and sugar together in a jar. Fermenting the Kombucha Choose a safe spot. Do not disturb. Allow the kombucha to ferment. Ambient temperature. Access to oxygen. Liquid surface area. Remember: Faster fermentation isn’t necessarily better. Lower pH. Mold. Pests.
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Creative Ways to Use Kombucha Tea Kombucha is surprisingly versatile! It can be bottled or used in salad dressing, marinade, frozen treats, mixed drinks, and many other types of recipes. Bottled Drink. Salad Dressing. Tomato-Kombucha Salad Dressing Kombucha Mustard-Garlic Salad Dressing Asian Inspired Kombucha Dressing Kombucha Italian Salad Dressing Meat Marinade. Frozen Treats. Soaking Grains. Acidic Ingredient in Mixed Drinks. {*style:<b>*}As a Substitute for Apple Cider Vinegar.
Green Honey Language represents our view of the world, and knowing its limits helps us understand how our perception works. I used the data from Wikipedia’s “Color” entry for different languages. My assumption was: "Different languages have different ways to describe color.” (Scroll Down to Start) The Chinese entry has 250+ different colors. The Hue-Saturation-Lightness (HSL) model is a 3D model that can be projected on a 2D space. Using Hue as an angle, we can set either Saturation as the radius . . . or Lightness as the radius. Here is the English Dataset, keeping Lightness as a constant . . . or keeping Saturation as the constant. Comparing the two datasets, you can see that English has a richer entry for color names. However, it's always worth asking: Is this the best model to represent our dataset? Notice that the Chinese and English names for colors share a common structure of "noun/adj + base color": Here are all the colors with 青 in their names. Now let's see English. association from object . . .