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What is in the Vorratskammer (Pantry)? On myvillages and feeding 8,000 people

By On 25 June, 2013 · Leave a Comment · In Arts and culture, Book reviews, Growing, Kitchen

We expected 5,000 and 8, 000 came.

Wild boar meat (sausage, paté, etc.), homemade cheese, candied violets, 5kg garlic, 21 jars of plum jam, 4 liters rhubarb syrup, 6,000 Salanova lettuce heads, 25 kg pearl barley, 20 kg tomatoes, 1,000 chicken eggs, 50 kg carrots,10 liters pumpkin seed oil, and this […]

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Our resilient soy bean plant

By On 9 April, 2013 · Leave a Comment · In Agriculture, Dirt, Growing, Kitchen, Neighborhood, Resilience, Sojabønner

Last year we grew some heirloom soybeans at DRYK Nørrebro, the roof top urban garden in our neighborhood. We wanted to grow seeds that could tell a story and be shared from year to year. Growing these soy beans,  which even though they came from a seed […]

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OPI – Other Peoples’ Ikea: #1 Banana Peel Drying Rack

By On 27 February, 2013 · Leave a Comment · In Design, Kitchen, Projects

This is the first installment of what will be an irregular series of reflections on the waste stream we find flowing all around us. More than any other place we have lived, there is an enormous percentage of the trash that other people in our neighborhood throw out that consists of damaged and perfectly usable […]

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Vinter kartoffel tårn / Winter potato tower

By On 24 November, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In Design, Dirt, Kitchen, Projects

We really miss having a garden of our own and sometimes we raise potato starts in our apartment for no other reason than that they make us happy and keeps our intimate knowledge of how to do this close at hand.

I was cleaning out some old pots we had in […]

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Mint, lemon balm, and strawberry tofu

By On 1 August, 2012 · 2 Comments · In Kitchen, Tofu

It has been a while since I have made any tofu. I am happy to be back at it again experimenting and learning this ancient craft. The tofu I am making is seeming more and more like artisanal cheese. I made this batch by heating the tofu with mint and lemon […]

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Tofu with kiwi and small red peppers

By On 12 April, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In Kitchen, Tofu

Today’s tofu pressing was with kiwi and small red peppers. I also embedded a large chunk of kiwi in the center of the tofu. We cooked the tofu in a sweet and sour sauce with even more kiwi.

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Tofu with dandelion greens and ginger

By On 4 April, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In Kitchen, Neighborhood, Tofu

This week’s tofu pressing includes dandelion greens from the neighborhood, Lichtenberg, we are staying in here in Berlin, and ginger. We have been looking for ways to get a better sense of where we are in relation to the local ecology and how people use their city spaces. Gathering dandelions is a good […]

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Tofu med purløg / tofu with chives

By On 19 March, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In Kitchen, Tofu

Here is this weekend’s experiment with tofu. We used both lime and lemon juice as the coagulant to make the soy milk curdle.

We are very happy that spring is upon us and couldn’t resist using a couple of flower pots to both shape and press the tofu. First we put […]

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Seed starts + simple kitchen reuse

By On 11 March, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In Growing, Homesteading, Kitchen

It’s March and spring is slowly coming around. The start of spring means preparing seedlings for the coming growing season. We may have an outdoor garden this year (crossing our fingers) and in the hopes of that we are starting seeds in our kitchen window.

We always have a surplus of 1 liter […]

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Tofu med jordnødder, basilikum, og sojasovs / Tofu with peanuts, basil, and soy sauce

By On 9 March, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In Kitchen, Tofu

Here is our latest experiment with pressing our own tofu. We made a paste of crushed peanuts, soy sauce and shredded basil leaves. The paste is in four layers in the tofu. We spread the first layer in the press, put in some curd, followed by another layer of paste, then more curd, […]

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