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  1. Dirtmechanic

    Coffee

    The calcium in the water here kills all coffee devices. I just use a pot. Really its more like I just quit buying coffee stuff once I found an unbreakable, insulated, double filtered french press.☕
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    Coffee

    That one last cup I leave in the french press. So lonely, neglected. I feel bad so sometimes in the evening I feed it a spoonful of cocoa and whipping cream. It perks right up!
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    History, Re-imagined

  4. Dirtmechanic

    Coffee

    Mmm ☕ I got honey in my coffee and its a bright, bright, sun-shiny day!
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    Earliest Agricultural Tools

    I just started some brie cheese creme fresh. I found out that you can easily make it with feta cheese and blue cheese too. The blue cheese version I will try with steak dinner.
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    Earliest Agricultural Tools

    You need the probiotic from a small jar of sourkraut. Think of it as a sourdough starter. It won't take much. 1 Tbsp or 2. There are certain strains that taste better than others in the world of fermenting.
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    Earliest Agricultural Tools

    Funny the article mentioned pistachio nuts. Yesterday I made dinner and crushed pistachio with a mortar and pestle. 8000 years later and they get delivered in a hello fresh box.
  8. Dirtmechanic

    Coffee

    A lot to unpack here. You learned a night word in the morning. New York City never sleeps. NYCtophiles that live in New York City have their own word. You are a morning person that should not live there I suspect. I have a dutch shepherd and can never be alone. Especially if I am in the...
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    Gone to the Dogs

    Pepper is not spoiled at all.
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    Organic gardening 2025

    She wants some fried green so the nanas do not spin and point like a compass but help another way speed wise.
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    Organic gardening 2025

    Record freeze arriving tomorrow so we plucked the garden one last time. Banana not just for scale.
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    Coffee

    In this college town we had a bookstore that was the best bar and grill around.
  13. Dirtmechanic

    Coffee

    You killed that business. Its your fault. Once in 20 years? Were there skeletons behind the desk when you showed up again? They passed waiting on you to come back! I like my chocolate at 9pm and frozen.
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    Your Weather, 2025

    Remember the flavored carnation instant milk packets on snowcones? It is that time of year!
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    Coffee

    Yeah. Maybe that Amazon subscription needs to slow down!
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    Coffee

    What is the most practical way to keep coffee fresh? Freezer?
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    Your Weather, 2025

    Sackcloth and ashes! Freeze into the 20s Monday ends the summer garden!
  18. Dirtmechanic

    Potato storage, help!

    Around here putting them in pinestraw works. Like a clamp but easier. sweet potato also. You might use hvac filter type material, but the pinestraw is probably more preservative when it is fresh fall dry.
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    Small Bell Peppers

    Well there ya go! ;) We are handy to have around!
  20. Dirtmechanic

    Small Bell Peppers

    Personally I think its choking at the root. Try a cactus mix sometime. Give it way more drainage and breathing room than normal but do it in something that can allow that deep root to grow into a coolness. Our clay does that to them.
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