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How To Cook With Brine

When it comes to great cooking, the one thing that does a million jobs isn’t just the knife, it’s brine, and it isn’t just a curing tool either. Continue reading How To Cook With Brine

picklesofwisdomJuly 1, 2017Leave a comment

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STORY TIME: It has been 6 years since I began working on my business, the family business. That’s where this photo is from, trying to figure out what plants we have for product photos of raised garden beds. In the foreground you’ll notice nasturtiums and a bunch of sticks (bottom right). My pepper plant has died at the age of 2. Leave it to the desert’s unpredicatability to send me basically a whole 6 hours of non-stop beautiful snow, something I’ve wanted my entire life, and it kills off the would-be perennial pepper. In my mind, it snows that much only every 7-ish years. Life is full of trade-offs and silver linings. I got the experience of a lifetime (refer to previous sentence for correct timing.) Anyways, back to the story. 6 years ago I was applying to the Forest Service (probably could have widened my search) looking for jobs after graduation. After a lot of introspection I’d decided the tools and business was very special to me, and without me, might fall to someone else. It wasn’t a great thought. So we, my brother, Mom, and I, got to work. (My brother studied business amd has a great mind for math and engineering thank GOD. Me? Yeah my ecology degree really helps out the business. Hopefully it means we get great photos.) Last year, the yard here was full of stainless steel planters and bare soil and compost. I didn’t plant in any of it. Why??? Because we needed to test the stainless and they’d get moved around and dug up. Finally it looks like they’ll be planted, and I honestly can’t wait. My blue buckets have disintegrated, making them impossible to move and photograph. Nobody should have to look at that! I have felt lost and bored for the last year. Seeing GoFerment use my photo, having space I’m planning to plant, getting new photos up of the products we’ve been working on, (design, social media, and physically making products we sell is like my whole job) and I’ve never felt more invigorated. This is what they mean when they say that having a purpose can change your life. In the last month or so I’ve gone from zombie to human. Find your purpose! Thanks for reading. Looking forward to the future!

Made a little metal ring that slips into a basket to hold tillandsia. (Yeah, it’s flowering!) Only thing to figure out is how to polish it. I wrote a thing about how to take care of air plants btw, in case anyone wants to know (see bio) #airplant #tillandsia #tillandsias #airplants #airplantsofinstagram

Yikes. We did not expect this! Happy almost spring. #snowday #tucson #zone9a #rosemary #plants #freezingmybuttoffforthis

None if you know this, but last year all the oregano I grew dried out before I could pick it and dry it myself. Since it was a dry winter and dust was everywhere, I didn’t want to use it. So this year, when all this is lush, it’s clipping time. ✂️#oregano #somepeoplepronoucesoilassoul

Come on back peppers. Please. The other day, in the kitchen, I ruined one of the green onions. Luckily one is becoming two and I can split them. This is their third year! ~2.5 feet tall. People throw these in the trash after using them once. 🙄

Snow two days in a row is essentially unheard of for the middle of Tucson. The heat island effect pushes stored warmth out of our sidewalks, buildings, and roads during the night to make this impossible normally. But we got it! Snow! #tucson

These lasted about two weeks in the fridge before I decided: eff it, they’re getting grown again. #invincible #onion

Hey everybody! It’s cooler out so I’m cooking again. After a farmers market, I decided to try a third time to ferment some cucumbers. And to do that, I grabbed these @goferment lids. They might FINALLY help me to master fermentation. Updates to come. Check them out if you haven’t, these were a gift to me from my mother. Keep them in mind for Holidays 2018®️! #goferment #fermentation #pickles

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