#kitchen economics

[thestudentfarmer]

Kitchen post today~

With prices being what they are I like a good deal on groceries when I can find it. Sometimes that leads me to buying large quantities of things.

This week the local scratch n dent market had 5 pound bags of golden potatos on sale, 2 for $4. We like potatos so I snagged a few bags. Since i had 2 from last week's groceries I decided to pick through them all.

I tossed a few rotten ones and sorted out the good from the ones getting on the going side. The good ones I put up in a storage tote (a cooking pot for now) for later cooking.

These ones are the contenders for the weekly meal/freezer prep. They had some funny or funky spots, things that can be cut off and thrown away or in the compost. I clean them after washing them well.

As a heads up, it's not suggested to feed chickens raw potatoes. So leave anything with raw potato bits in the trash or the compost bin.

The bad bits.

If you feel need to you can wash them up again. I move to peeling after words.

I save the peels for breakfast potatoes, or to make soup.

A few peeled spuds.

Afterwords, depending on how many potatoes needed to be processed will decide what im making. This time I had enough potatoes to do cubed potatoes and hashbrown potatoes.

Cube potatoes, then blanch them till all Dante in a pot. (Not quite to mash potatoes softness, but not crunchy.)

Drain, cool quickly. (If your into water conservation, save the water for your plants once cooled) I cool till just under warm and lay them out to drain/dry a bit.

Then take a pan and lay out a clean kitchen towel on it. Pour dry potatoes on and place in freezer till frozen.

Store in container and use like regular frozen potatoes.

Moving to hashed potatoes

Similar to the cubed potatoes except I grated them.

I like to destarch my potatoes a little so I do a soak for about an hour, drain and then blanch.

I did about 5 minutes to blanch the hash, every couple minutes fish out a peice and test it to see if it's crunchy or just firm. Drain, cool asap.

Lay out to drain and dry a bit.

Lay towel on baking sheet. Place drained hashed potatoes on top. Place in freezer and freeze a few hours.

When frozen package up. Date and use as necessary :)

Other potato freezing/preserving resources

https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/howto/guide/how-to-freeze-potatoes

https://www.motherearthnews.com/real-food/dehydrate-potatoes-for-various-uses-zbcz1507/

🥔🌱Happy Homesteading!🌱🥔

[coolnonsenseworld]

Samurai and Ninja in crappy pics because December here is under a constant cloud and I just want y'all to see them all golden and cute without learning how to take aesthetic pictures 🥴 💙❤️😆🥰

linktr.ee/Mezzy

[goldenhour-s]

coming soon: britechester townhouse(s) for rent 🔑

[grits-galraisedinthesouth]

Well worth your time to watch Trump take Question after Question at the Economic Club of New York

[harapeveco]

I got my job only bc I wanted to be able to afford Eve merch but in these few months I’ve spent working I truly learned there’s more than Eve merch

Like getting an airfryer for example

[goldeunoias]

Hearing women say they want nothing but to be a housewife and stay at home mom and how they hate “‘now having to work” is truly…..yeah

[memento-mariii]

Some things that are considered "bad luck" are just... based on common sense instead of superstitions.

Like, in Korea it's considered bad luck to eat fruit with a knife rather than with proper utensils, like with a fork or chopsticks. And in the West it's considered bad luck to walk under a ladder. In both cases I would argue there's objectively a higher chance of something bad happening to you* if you do the taboo thing rather than not.

*(namely, you cutting yourself on the mouth and the ladder falling on you)

[everyonesfavoritebard]

A little fun fact about me is that back when I was a cringy ah 12yo I’d sometimes add really random tags that had absolutely no relation to the subject matter of my main post. Just for the shits and giggles.

And to annoy people and for attention ofc (can you tell I’m unemployed yet?)

Let’s see how many we can fit with this one (this is the only one I promise lol)

[porterdavis]

Why kitchen table analogy doesn't work

Just about every economist will reply that it’s misleading to make an analogy between household and government finances. But it seems to me that we often aren’t clear enough about why, perhaps because we don’t say it bluntly enough. So here’s the difference: You are going to get old and eventually die. The government isn’t.

Paul Krugman, NY Times

[dailyanarchistposts]

Next—Soup Kitchen Farm

In 1999 another farm took shape on Detroit’s lower east side, the Earthworks Urban Farm. For years the monks at the Capuchin Mission have run a community soup kitchen that serves about 2000 meals-a-day, and they needed to supplement the donated food with fresh produce, so the farm was born on a couple of vacant neighborhood lots. Since that time, the farm has grown to cover parts of several city blocks, and has become a very productive venture. Patrick Crouch, the Earthworks Farm manager, says that in 2008, with only 2 weeks of picking, the farm harvested 200 lbs of asparagus from the recently added patch. And, on a single July day, the farm produced 150 lbs of green beans. Earthworks Farm also markets its own jams, honey, and hand-balm, all made on the farm.

Crouch tells visitors how the farm is trying to develop a new model of helping feed urban residents by having as many people as possible who are serviced by the soup kitchen working on the farm. The farm is also developing a couple of different programs involving young people in the growing, harvesting, and marketing of farm produce with the goal of helping to “create new, young leaders of communities.” Crouch dreams of new ways to get healthy, local produce out to the community, for instance, by developing bicycle-powered mobile sales stands. In recognition of all this good work, this past February, Earthworks Farm was selected as one of the top ten producing urban farms in the country by Natural Home magazine.

[thestudentfarmer]

It's wet and rainy today, so I'll be cooking today and staying indoors to keep warm and dry :)

I'm cooking some acorn and delicata/jester squash in the oven for making noodles and soup broth.

I'll be taking the seeds from both to make some seeds snacks.

Frybread is in the making and I started some pork loin in green sauce In the crockpot~

Breakfast will be made soon. A lovely scrambled eggs (from our hens), chopped jalapeno and a lil shredded cheddar. Plus a leftover chopped seasoned potato (I like to make extra when I cook them for supper so we have quick fried potatos in the morning:) )

More later, when ibhave some pics :) Stay safe, warm and dry :)

🌱🌧 Happy Homesteading and cooking 🌧🌱

12.22.2023

[lacewise]

Huh, I didn’t realize people couldn’t tell the stuff that super rich people just replace (eg phones, etc) and the stuff they actually get super high quality (most appliances, some laptops, clothes, shoes, etc). Like… we’ve gone so far back to class separation the middle class thinks the upper is buying the same products as them again.

To be clear, they’re not. I know which clothing brands the rich shop from because I grew up poor so I don’t have the same class illusions or biases and I’m super nosy.

Once a brand starts to get worse to appeal to a broader clientele and sell overpriced stock, they cash out and move onto the next one (this is actually the real problem).

they’re just not telling you where they’re buying the stuff they actually use, because they don’t want you to know. Because they’re classist, but also because they can make money selling you stuff they’re tricking you into seeing as commodities.

This is a problem that some experts and specialists have had with terms like “late stage capitalism”, because, much like the rich, it’s convincing you old problems are brand new, unsolvable problems.

It’s also why I tend to use “unregulated capitalism”, “growth capitalism”, etc.

Anyway that’s basic economics.

Don’t assume that the only things for purchase are the ones being advertised. Word of mouth works even better, and keeps brands and products out of the mainstream consciousness longer.

[lesbianinaginkgoforest]

WE NEED FUCKING SOCIALISM WE NEED TO ORGANIZE THE WORKING CLASS; WE NEED TO FUCKING KILL ALL AGRARIAN LANDLORDS NOT ONLY HERE IN ARGENTINA AND LATIN AMERICA IN THE WHOLE THIRD WORLD. OUR BACKWARDNESS OUR UNDERDEVELOPMENT IS JUST FOR THE SAKE OF THEM BEING MEGA EXPORTERS OF RAW MATERIALS AND ONLY GET RICHER WHILE 60% OF THE POPULATION IS BELOW POVERTY LINE AND PEOPLE IN INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES STARVE, PEOPLE IN FARMING TOWNS STARVE, PEOPLE IN THE CITIES IN FAVELAS STARVE. I'M SO FUCKING ANGRY I JUST WANT ALL OF THE AGRARIAN CAPITALISTS AND INDUSTRIALIST THAT ARE WORTH FOR NOTHING TO DIE.

[sophieswundergarten]

There should be more content on the systemic rivalry of Curtain as a theatre kid and Milligan as a

[miamicommune]

always going 2 be doomed to being the financially worst off and lowest energy person in a flat whilst also having to buy everything for that flat and do most of the cleaning

[sharkwing]

starting something called the cool guy challenge where you have to spend 30% of your internet time per week interacting with a community that is not located on facebook or instagram. the bar is set intentionally low to accommodate those whose entire online existences are Powered by Meta™️ and/or who never even had a twitter because they “couldn’t figure out how it worked.” this can be done anywhere, even on smaller but still well known sites like tumblr or reddit, but communities should ideally be centered around some niche hobby or interest and not something wholly political. if you can do this for six months without being radicalized then you’re an official cool guy. If you get radicalized you have to repeat all internet safety/online research courses from 6th-12th grade. There is no purpose to this and I think it might make some people actively worse, but hey. That’s why it’s a challenge