[cringefailprincess]

no, listen, when I say I want to integrate more specific solarpunk stuff in my life, i don’t mean to ask for yet again new “aesthetic” clothes that now you have to buy or make to show your support of the movement (screw that i’m consuming enough as it is), or more posts about impossible house goals, or whatever, I’m asking you what my options to build a portable and eco friendly phone charger are, im asking you viable tiny-appartment edible plants growing tricks on a budget,  im asking tips to slow down when my mind and society tell me im not fast enough, i don’t need more rich art nouveau amateurs aesthetics or pristine but cold venus project, okay, i know i should joins associations where I am tho i’m constantly on the move, thanks for that, just, you know, can we get a bit more practical ??? how do I hack my temporary flat into going off the grid for the time i’m here

[solarpunk-aesthetic]

Hello! ☀️ Here are a few practical suggestions for stuff you can do: 

Make a bottle tower garden (a small one could do well on a windowsill) 

Make eco-friendly household cleaners

Germinate strawberry seeds and care for the plants 

Grow plants from cuttings (you can grow almost anything this way) 

Make a sun jar 

Grow low maintenance houseplants 

Make a string garden 

Make a wall planter 

Germinate an avocado seed 

Make a shoe pocket garden 

Build a mini solar generator 

Re-grow kitchen scraps 

Find the right solar battery charger 

Recycle old solar cells 

Hope you find something useful in there! I post stuff up from time to time under my diy tag. Feel free to drop me a message if you have any requests!

[jellyfishdirigible]

grow oyster mushrooms on waste coffee grounds (also works with shiitake)

a list of some food plants that can grow indoors with reduced light

windowsill herbs

egg carton seed germination

germinate chayote and keep it as a houseplant (the root, stem, leaves, fruit, and seed are all edible)

choosing a portable solar panel

tips for energy efficient apartment life (but jsyk LED is better than CFL, and a tank bank or expanding water bottle is better than a brick or bottle of gravel)

DIY draft stoppers

DIY solar oven and recipes

evaporative refrigeration

use conkers/horse chestnuts to replace soap and detergents

use baking soda as dry shampoo

cleaning with vinegar do’s & don’ts and common myths

DIY dryer balls

apartment-friendly bokashi composting and DIY bokashi bran

DIY moss terrarium for your soul (ain’t many souls slower or more patient than moss)

and a list of some easy care indoor plants for your nerves

and for your bathroom and your air quality

recycle t-shirts into yarn for your crafts

[rabbitgoblin]

fucked up how cooking and baking from scratch is viewed as a luxury…..like baking a loaf of bread or whatever is seen as something that only people with money/time can do. I’m not sure why capitalism decided to sell us the idea that we can’t make our own damn food bc it’s a special expensive thing that’s exclusive to wealthy retirees but it’s stupid as hell and it makes me angry

[rabbitgoblin]

bread takes like max 4 ingredients counting water and sure it takes a couple hours but 80% of that is just waiting around while it does the thing and you can do other things while it’s rising/baking plus im not gonna say baking cured my depression bc it didn’t but man is it hard to feel down when you’re eating slices of fresh bread you just made yourself. feels like everything’s gonna be a little more ok than you thought. it’s good.

[pluckedanarchist]

bread is amazing and it’s also been sold to us as something really hard to make? Every time I tell someone I made a loaf of bread I get reactions like “you made it yourself???” and “do you have a bread machine then?” I haven’t touched a bread machine in probably 10 years. You CAN make your own bread, folks, and it’s actually pretty cheap to do so. I believe the most expensive thing I needed for it was the jar of yeast. It was about $6 at the grocery store and lasted me MONTHS (just keep it in the fridge.) The packets are even cheaper. destroy capitalism. bake your own bread.

[boonbucks-city-beach]

You can also make your own yeast by making a sourdough starter, so that cuts cost even more.

But you have to feed the starter daily/weekly and that means it grows quickly, but there are tons of recipes online for what to do with your excess starter. Cookies, pretzels, crackers, pancakes, waffles, you name it!!

[unbossed-deactivated20251218]

Here’s a link to The Home Baking Association’s site. It has recipes and tips.

[petermorwood]

Make it even easier - “No-Knead Bread”. All YOU do is mix the ingredients together and wait until it’s time to heat the oven. The yeast does all the rest.

Here’s @dduane​’s first take on it and the finished product. We’ve made even more photogenic batches since.

Kneading is easy as well; either let your machine do it, or if you don’t want to or don’t have one, get hands-on. It’s like mixing two colours of Plasticine to make a third. Flatten, stretch, fold, half-turn, repeat - it takes about 10 minutes - until the gloopy conglomeration of flour, yeast, salt and water that clings to your hands at the beginning, becomes a compact ball that doesn’t stick to things and feels silky-smooth.

Here’s what before and after look like.

My Mum used to say that if you were feeling out of sorts with someone, it was good to make bread because you could transfer your annoyance into kneading the dough REALLY WELL, and both you and the bread would be better for it.

Then you put it into a bowl, cover it with cling-film and let it rise until it doubles in size, turn it out and “knock it back” (more kneading, until it’s getting back to the size it started, this means there won’t be huge “is something living in here?” holes in the bread), put it into your loaf-tin or whatever - we’ve used a regular oblong tin, a rectangular Pullman tin with a lid, a small glass casserole, an earthenware chicken roaster…

You can even use a clean terracotta flowerpot.

Let the dough rise again until it’s high enough to look like an unbaked but otherwise real loaf, then pop it in the preheated oven. On average we give ours 180°C / 355°F for 45-50 minutes. YM (and oven) MV.

Here’s some of our bread…

Here’s our default bread recipe - it takes about 3-4 hours from flour jar to cutting board depending on climate (warmer is faster) most of which is rise time and baking; hands-on mixing, kneading and knocking-back is about 20 minutes, tops, and less if using a mixer.

Here ( or indeed any of the other pics) is the finished product. This one was given an egg-wash to make it look glossy and keep the poppy-seeds in place; mostly we don’t bother with that or the slash down the middle, but all the extras were intentional as a “ready for my close-up” glamour shot.

I think any shop would be happy to have something this good-looking on their shelf. We’re happy to have it on our table.

Even if your first attempts don’t work out quite as well as you hope, you can always make something like this…

[rae-napier-deactivated20180822]

can we have more posts like this in future please? this is really useful and could help those who are struggling

[foodffs]

Banana bread 🍌

CLASSIC BANANA BREAD RECIPE

flourless banana bread bars

EASY BANANA BREAD WITH PEANUT BUTTER GLAZE

Cream Cheese Banana Bread

The BEST Healthy Banana Bread Recipe

Best Chocolate Banana Bread

Strawberry Coconut Chia Seed Banana Bread

Banana Bread Pancakes

Carrot Cake Banana Bread with Thick Cinnamon Cream Cheese Frosting

Double Chocolate Paleo Banana Bread Bars

More banana bread here!

Really nice recipes. Every hour.

Show me what you cooked!

[snowfox102]

Yeasty Boys bread recipe

AKA Yeast rolls for people that don’t have enough spoons to do it The Right Way. I wanted to share this because being able to have homemade bread has been great for me. I was inspired by @gallusrostromegalus and @thebibliosphere to share this with y’all, however mediocre it might really be. :P

1 tbsp active dry yeast (about a packet)

2 tsp salt

2 cups very warm water

¼ cup olive oil (or some other oil, I just like olive)

¼ cup molasses (honey or plain ol sugar is fine too, mostly you need it to feed the yeast)

A bunch of flour (I never measure)

Optional:

1 cup rolled oats

½ cup flaxseed meal

Mix the water, molasses and yeast first, so the yeast can wake up and start eating. Add the optionals if you want them, then the oil and salt. Once that’s mixed start adding flour a bit at a time. Keep kneading in flour until you get bread dough. Seriously there’s not really a measurement for the flour, and you’ll get bread regardless. Just mix with your spoon until the spoon isn’t working, then knead with your hands a bit until the dough sticks to itself more than to you. It’s okay to stop when kneading gets too difficult, you don’t need to cram a certain amount of flour in there. Bread dough is something you have to experience to know, but bread is also the most forgiving of baked goods so don’t worry about it too much. I do all the kneading in my mixing bowl so I don’t have to deal with cleaning the counter.

Once you’re done kneading make balls about half the size of your fist, and place them on a cookie sheet greased with butter or oil. (Spoonie tip: line the pan with foil and you won’t have to wash the pan afterward!) I usually get about a dozen rolls, though it varies depending on how much flour I was able to knead in that day. Let them rise in a warm spot for a while. I don’t really time this, I just leave them on top of the oven while it preheats, which takes about 10-15 minutes. The heat from the oven helps with rising and gives me a reminder (put them in when the oven beeps.) The oven should be preheated to 400 degrees Fahrenheit. Bake for 15-20 minutes, or until the rolls make a hollow sound when tapped with a finger. (This is also something you’ll need to experience, but as long as they’re neither burned nor raw you’re good. Just keep an eye on them and take them out when the tops start to brown.)

The resulting bread is quite heavy and dense, however it has a strong yeasty flavor and takes much less time and effort to make than a traditional yeast bread. I have also made this with an egg added which does make the bread a bit more fluffy. I leave it out now though because I don’t like the taste of eggs, and I like dense bread anyway.

This is the basic recipe I’ve been using for the last few years. I started experimenting with bread because my diet is dependent on a lot of grains (read: I have sensory issues but I’m also poor) and store bought gets expensive and boring, but at the same time my energy limitations made normal yeast bread too difficult. I make a batch of this bread every week, using the optional ingredients above, and also using only whole wheat flour, no white flour, mostly because I like it that way but also it keeps the rest of my family from eating them. ;) My family named this variant “Health Bricks” since the wheat flour makes them even more dense than usual. Credit for the Yeasty Boys name goes to my dad. Over time the number of rolls I got from each batch increased as I gained the strength to knead in more flour, though it does still vary depending on how I feel and what the weather is like that day. My health is much improved now, but I still favor this recipe over anything else.

[adulthoodisokay]

Your breads look so tasty. Is there a recipe you'd recommend for people who have never made bread before?

HELLO ANON YOU HAVE COME TO THE RIGHT FUCKING PLACE BECAUSE I’VE BEEN KINDA OBSESSED WITH MAKING BREAD FOR THE LAST MONTH OR SO.

I’ve posted several recipes on one of my sideblogs, @tastythingsieat. 

The bread I made tonight was an adapted version of this loaf I made (tonight I made it with 1/3 whole wheat flour and slightly more water.) That link is a great easy sandwich bread, if you’re cool with kneading dough and have a bread pan! Kneading dough is VERY EASY, if you’re intimidated by it just search YouTube for tutorials, there are plenty that show you exactly how to do it.

For this basic kneaded white sandwich loaf, here’s the recipe (makes one loaf):

1 1⁄4 cups slightly warm water 

2 tablespoons olive oil 

1 teaspoon sugar 

3⁄4 teaspoon salt 

1 tbsp yeast 

3 1⁄4 cups flour (I used “bread flour” but you can totally use “all purpose” flour)

Mix 4 tablespoons of the warm water (taken from the 1 ¼ cup total) in a small bowl with the yeast and sugar, and let sit. Meanwhile, mix the remaining water and flour and let sit for 10 minutes. Then, mix in salt and olive oil, and add the yeast mixture.

Knead for 7 minutes until smooth and elastic. This might be difficult and messy at first and you might get freaked out cause it’s sticky - YT tutorials are your friend. Let rise in an oiled bowl covered with plastic wrap for 1 hour 15 minutes. At this point, preheat your oven to 350F and deflate and shape the dough before letting it do the final proof for 30-ish minutes in a loaf pan, loosely covered with a towel. Bake for 30 minutes. IMPORTANT: remove the baked dough from the baking pan and let cool on a rack!

Terms like “deflate and shape” can be super intimidating, but again: YouTube tutorials are your friend. 

If you want to try a simple no-knead bread, you have several options. Several of the recipes for no-knead bread are posted on @tastythingsieat (I recommend this one if you have a kitchen scale and this one if you don’t.) Both of these recipes require a long (overnight) rising and a Dutch oven with a lid that can go to 450F! 

Hope this helps, and feel free to message me off anon/IM me if you have any questions!

[rabbitgoblin]

fucked up how cooking and baking from scratch is viewed as a luxury…..like baking a loaf of bread or whatever is seen as something that only people with money/time can do. I’m not sure why capitalism decided to sell us the idea that we can’t make our own damn food bc it’s a special expensive thing that’s exclusive to wealthy retirees but it’s stupid as hell and it makes me angry

[rabbitgoblin]

bread takes like max 4 ingredients counting water and sure it takes a couple hours but 80% of that is just waiting around while it does the thing and you can do other things while it’s rising/baking plus im not gonna say baking cured my depression bc it didn’t but man is it hard to feel down when you’re eating slices of fresh bread you just made yourself. feels like everything’s gonna be a little more ok than you thought. it’s good.

[pluckedanarchist]

bread is amazing and it’s also been sold to us as something really hard to make? Every time I tell someone I made a loaf of bread I get reactions like “you made it yourself???” and “do you have a bread machine then?” I haven’t touched a bread machine in probably 10 years. You CAN make your own bread, folks, and it’s actually pretty cheap to do so. I believe the most expensive thing I needed for it was the jar of yeast. It was about $6 at the grocery store and lasted me MONTHS (just keep it in the fridge.) The packets are even cheaper. destroy capitalism. bake your own bread.

[boonbucks-city-beach]

You can also make your own yeast by making a sourdough starter, so that cuts cost even more.

But you have to feed the starter daily/weekly and that means it grows quickly, but there are tons of recipes online for what to do with your excess starter. Cookies, pretzels, crackers, pancakes, waffles, you name it!!

[unbossed-deactivated20251218]

Here’s a link to The Home Baking Association’s site. It has recipes and tips.

[petermorwood]

Make it even easier - “No-Knead Bread”. All YOU do is mix the ingredients together and wait until it’s time to heat the oven. The yeast does all the rest.

Here’s @dduane​’s first take on it and the finished product. We’ve made even more photogenic batches since.

Kneading is easy as well; either let your machine do it, or if you don’t want to or don’t have one, get hands-on. It’s like mixing two colours of Plasticine to make a third. Flatten, stretch, fold, half-turn, repeat - it takes about 10 minutes - until the gloopy conglomeration of flour, yeast, salt and water that clings to your hands at the beginning, becomes a compact ball that doesn’t stick to things and feels silky-smooth.

Here’s what before and after look like.

My Mum used to say that if you were feeling out of sorts with someone, it was good to make bread because you could transfer your annoyance into kneading the dough REALLY WELL, and both you and the bread would be better for it.

Then you put it into a bowl, cover it with cling-film and let it rise until it doubles in size, turn it out and “knock it back” (more kneading, until it’s getting back to the size it started, this means there won’t be huge “is something living in here?” holes in the bread), put it into your loaf-tin or whatever - we’ve used a regular oblong tin, a rectangular Pullman tin with a lid, a small glass casserole, an earthenware chicken roaster…

You can even use a clean terracotta flowerpot.

Let the dough rise again until it’s high enough to look like an unbaked but otherwise real loaf, then pop it in the preheated oven. On average we give ours 180°C / 355°F for 45-50 minutes. YM (and oven) MV.

Here’s some of our bread…

Here’s our default bread recipe - it takes about 3-4 hours from flour jar to cutting board depending on climate (warmer is faster) most of which is rise time and baking; hands-on mixing, kneading and knocking-back is about 20 minutes, tops, and less if using a mixer.

Here ( or indeed any of the other pics) is the finished product. This one was given an egg-wash to make it look glossy and keep the poppy-seeds in place; mostly we don’t bother with that or the slash down the middle, but all the extras were intentional as a “ready for my close-up” glamour shot.

I think any shop would be happy to have something this good-looking on their shelf. We’re happy to have it on our table.

Even if your first attempts don’t work out quite as well as you hope, you can always make something like this…

[ceramyn]

Holy Hell I Can’t Bake Bread Recipe

I come from a long line of bakers and home cooks who would probably be very, very disappointed in the amount of bread I have burned, undercooked, dropped, and otherwise ruined. After much trial and error I’ve finally stumbled upon a bread recipe that not only is impossible to mess up but that only takes one hour to make. 

That’s right guys gals and nonbinary pals, one hour foolproof bread. And boy howdy do I mean foolproof. So, how does the magic work?

Ingredients: 

-1 T honey

-1 T instant yeast

-1 ½ C warm water

-1 ½ t salt

-3 ½-4 ½ C flour (plus some for your hands)

Process: 

1. Combine water, honey, yeast and salt in a bowl. Allow to proof for five minutes (so just leave it alone for a bit)

2. Add two cups of flour, stir to combine. Add final cup and a half to flour slowly, mixing/kneading as you do so. At the end the dough should be smooth and no longer stick to your hands. (You can use up to 4 ½ c of flour total, so don’t feel bad for going over 3 ½ c)

3. Put on greased baking sheet, shape into loaf. Cover and let rise somewhere warm for twenty minutes.

4. Preheat oven to 400F/205C

5. Cut slits on top of bread. OPTIONAL: Put olive oil/butter and herbs/salt on top of bread for extra flavor.

6. Bake for 15-20 Minutes until crust is golden brown. 

7. Let it cool slightly before you eat it. The bread will be dense with a chewy crust, most similar to French peasant bread. 

That’s it! I usually brush olive oil, herbs, and some salt on the crust and serve it with homemade honey butter. In my old oven it takes eighteen minutes to cook, a few test loaves will let you know how long it needs to cook for in your oven.

I’ve also made a variety of toppings, including egg washes and, one time, salted caramel to put on top before baking. You can also stir herbs into the flour before mixing to add even more flavor into the bread. 

[anniesveggielife]

Matcha banana bread w/ poppyseed  -oil free & vegan

when u crave something good but not totally bad for u. This is also the result of dumping everything u have in the cupboard and stealing cafeteria bananas.

[foodffs]

Strawberry Coconut Chia Seed Banana Bread

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[juliullauri]

fuck gender norms 

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[rai-r]

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[lovelivelyhood]