Un peu de métal symphonique ?
J'ai fait une version lyrique de Nightwish en plus 😉
https://youtube.com/shorts/TPnqnEYe3T4?si=EjTJ2SRLed6HrMLo
#nightwish #metal #symphonicmetal #lyrique #lyrical #amaranth #cover #flute #vocals #flutelover😍 #femaleartist #femalevoice #fluteplayer #viral_video #metalsymphonique #beatboxflute #beatbox
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Klingt interessant, weil ich aus Ernährungsoptimierungsgründen dazu übergegangen bin, mir oft Olivenöl anstatt anstatt Butter aufs Brot zu tun...
Funktioniert es dafür auch?
Die Herstellung von #PuffedAmaranth scheint jedoch ein bisschen ein Gefrickel zu sein:
"the temperature has to be “PERFECT” so all the seeds immediately puff but none burn. You might have to toss the...
#BloomScrolling while strolling around the backyard
President Brand Licorice Plum Has Undeclared Sulfites and A Dangerous Food Additive. #president #licoriceplum #sulfites #allergy #Amaranth #recall
https://www.instagram.com/p/DJcbYU9uujm/
Time to cook and eat the #amaranth grain I harvested from my garden last year!
I believe this is smooth pigweed / Amaranthus hybridus, which would make it a native plant:
:inaturalist: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/233752654
I don't have confirmation of that species ID, though I'm confident in the genus (and edibility). I'd appreciate #plantID help from #botany fans!
Harvesting this ~1/4 cup of grain involved carefully blowing the chaff off the top of a bowl with my breath, covering my porch in seed.
If we have the privilege of a stove, a saucepan & access to shops, whole grains are easy & so yum.
I love #porridge for this. I use a base of #quinoa flakes with linseed meal & chia, then add whatever else feels like fun - currently black #rice for gorgeous #purple colour, #amaranth for crunch, or #buckwheat for winter stodge. Maybe #sunflower seeds for added texture. Eat with #tahini (black tahini tastes amazing & looks like motor oil, wierd breakfast!) & #honey or #molasses, keeps me full for hours. Also delicious!
Even better for distractable me, I can start this when I wake up (put mixture in pot with plenty of water, bring to boil then put lid on & turn down to 1 on the induction cooktop) & even if I forget about it for hours it’s still perfect when I come back.
I love food.
#SameFoods #ActuallyAutistic #yum
The wholegrain revolution! How Denmark changed the diet – and health – of their entire nation https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/apr/23/the-wholegrain-revolution-how-denmark-changed-the-diet-and-health-of-their-entire-nation?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
#CandelariaNaturePreserve celebrates four years of restoration
"Just because a species is non-native does not make it an invasive one, and some non-native species function to support restoration."
by Emmett Di Mauro and Elijah Ritch
February 7, 2025
"On Jan. 31, the Candelaria Nature Preserve in #Albuquerque hosted a tour of its ongoing #rewilding project. The public tours are given on the last Friday of every month from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. and cover the preserve’s efforts to restore the 90 acres of former farmland in the North Valley, according to the Ciudad Soil & Water Conservation District website.
"Partnering with the City of Albuquerque Open Space Division, the Ciudad Soil & Water Conservation District provides an annual report on some goals for the Candelaria Nature Preserve, including plans for soil health. The project is in the fourth year of its 20-year span. The 2023 report can be found on its website.
"The guided tours are led by volunteers from the Friends of the Candelaria Nature Preserve, like Ruth Salvaggio.
"'What we’re showing here is restoration,' Salvaggio said.
"One example of this restoration is the addition of logs, which were brought in to create habitat, Salvaggio said. This invites #wildlife to make use of the land again. She also said the nature preserve planted several varieties of plant life for #butterflies and created an entire field dedicated to #pollination.
"The process of rewilding at the Candelaria Nature Preserve entails “transitioning the Preserve from non-sustainable agriculture to a mosaic of habitats that will support diverse native wildlife: wet and dry areas, hedgerows, grasslands, upland #shrublands, #ConservationBuffers, and #forage for wildlife,' according to the Friends of Candelaria Nature Preserve’s website.
"Just because a species is non-native does not make it an invasive one, and some non-native species function to support restoration. The workers carefully considered the place of certain #InvasiveSpecies, such as #ElmTrees.
"'They provide a canopy for birds,' Salvaggio said. 'They’re serving a purpose.'
"However, part of the project is to prevent new elms from growing, according to Salvaggio.
"#Teff, a type of grass native to Ethiopia and similar to #millet and#quinoa, was implemented in the preserve. Teff roots are shallow and the plant dies upon releasing its seeds, meaning teff is beneficial to the soil, Salvaggio said. In this way, teff acts as a natural mulch and a '#NurseCrop' that will support native plants in the future.
"Many #NativePlants are found in the preserve, too, including #amaranth, #BlueGrama, #sacaton, #mesquite, #saltbrush and #nightshade.
"One of the destinations on the tour was the nursery, where many native plants begin their lives. Later, they are taken and planted in select areas, including the mosaics — plots designed to be flooded — Salvaggio said. Dispersed wildlife such as #Mesquitetrees and #SacatonGrass grows in these areas.
"The work takes place on plots of former farmland separated by historic #acequias. An end goal is to meld the former farm plot zones to allow for the cohesive spread of the wildlife and return the land to its pre-farmed state, Salvaggio said.
"Bringing the land to its #PreFarmed state also includes careful land #terraforming in select areas, Salvaggio said. This is meant to carve out the original, natural #arroyos of the area.
"The guided tours are currently the only way for members of the public to see the Candelaria Nature Preserve. However, anyone can volunteer at the preserve from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. every Monday and Friday."
https://www.dailylobo.com/article/2025/02/candelaria-nature-preserve-celebrates-four-years-of-restoration
#SolarPunkSunday #Rewilding #NewMexico #NonNativeSpecies
From an article on #Tarwi, #Chocho, or #Lupini:
“As urban residents in the U.S. we rarely have any concept of how much work goes into processing our foods. #Quinoa, #amaranth, beans, dried and nixtamalized corn, they all take tremendous effort to prepare for consumption, and here we are just picking up a bag of quinoa at Costco as if some machine just did it all. Did it? Do we known this? Have we even questioned that?”
#IndigenousFood
https://www.kahloseyes.com/single-post/tarwi-chocho-or-lupini-the-slow-your-roll-bean
@Otis_Scops @jblue @pvonhellermannn @DarkOptimism
I'll respond in instalments to you.
#Millet to my surprise, is a relatively active tag here, just followed it, and something to follow-up. I get on well with it, culinarily, digestively and metabolically. It's also available in bio = organic in supermarkets here. I will normally germinate it before cooking, so growing some on would not be a big leap, apart from preparing a bed. Need to look into what it likes. Only issue I have with it here is, it's ridiculously overpriced as a foodstuff - like about €4 for a plastic 500g packet, meaning I tend to buy better value things. But as crop seed, price would not be an issue. A similar plant I have been part of an experimental project to grow, back in the '80s - '90s in SW UK was #amaranth. I'm tagging that as encouragement to others to do so, not because it's active, /yet/. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amaranth_grain
#buckwheat is another.
Time for black #nightshade, leafy #amaranth, #pumpkin leaves, #okra, #jute mallow, and leafy #cowpea in #peanut sauce
https://www.thecooldown.com/green-tech/spider-plant-food-future-africa/ #Climate #climatechange
The month is coming to an end as the warmest September on record, and the state drought monitor has labeled us “abnormally dry.” The garden is looking a little droopy and so am I. It was one of those weeks that, while not insanely busy, was constantly busy and had little down time. James and I both arrived at Friday night a bit shellshocked and zombie-like. The weekend has been restful, but not rejuvenating. The body feels fine, but mentally I long for a stretch of days in which I have nothing planned and nothing that has to be done. I think that’s usually called a vacation? I have a solid two weeks of vacation scheduled for the end of December, and even though it will be here before I know it, it still seems far away.
The warm month has been messing with my seasonal senses. It is clearly autumn—the leaves are turning, the light has changed, the birds are migrating—but it feels like August. I want to put on a sweater and curl up with a pastry, hot drink, and a good book. I just want to be cozy, but the weather is not cooperating. Maybe that’s why I feel so tired, it’s the dissonance between expectation, desire, and reality.
What I have been enjoying this week are the birds. Goldfinches mainly. The hyssop is going to seed and the goldfinches are all over it, chowing down. They are on the tall yellow coneflowers in the front yard too. Such a pleasure to watch and their cheerful chirping is music to my ears, never failing to make me smile.
Can you find the goldfinch?I have learned some bird hierarchy while watching the water dishes on the deck. The goldfinches will be drinking and a chickadee will swoop in and chase them away. I am surprised by this since chickadees are pretty much the same size as the goldfinches, but they puff up, stick out their chests, and aggressively hop at the finches who then fly away, ceding the water dishes to the chickadee.
But then a couple of sparrows come swooping in and chase off the chickadee.
Waiting in the wings is a little chipmunk. Once the birds have left, the chippy comes up for a quick drink.
Squirrels are still visiting the water too, but they seem to be fewer than in the spring. I see them running around the garden and one of them devoured one of the ripe pumpkins sometime between sunrise when the chickens were let out of the coop and late morning when I went to out to pick it. Perhaps because there is so much critter activity in the garden, the squirrels are not able to dominate it like they did earlier in the season? I’m probably delusional and they are all secretly plotting something that will take me by surprise.
Garden harvest–so colorful!I did get three small pumpkins. These are naked bear pumpkins. The seeds have no hulls—pepitas—but the pumpkin flesh on this variety is also supposedly pretty tasty. I’ll find out after I let them cure for a couple weeks.
The butternuts are also getting ripe. I’ve got three picked and two more on the vines. Not bad! Growing them up a wooden ladder turned out to work really well and I will be doing it again next year. The variety is “North Circle” from North Circle seeds, and is good for shorter growing seasons.
I’m thinking about growing sorghum next year. The amaranth—the eff you plants—I grew a couple years ago thinking I would harvest the seeds for grain, but the seeds turned out to be incredibly tiny and threshing the seed heads and separating seed from chaff is so tedious and time consuming, that I gave up trying to use them for grain. They continue to happily seed themselves around the garden and their leaves make a decent salad green early in the season, but other than that and their amusing middle finger, they are weedy and somewhat of a nuisance. But sorghum, maybe? The grain is larger and I can grow pole beans up a taller variety. To thresh it, one can allegedly put the seed head into a pillow case and beat it with a stick. Presumably since the grain is larger, it is fairly easy to separate it from the chaff? Then there’s the possibility of making syrup from the stalks, but that is secondary at the moment. If you have experience with it, please let me know! I wish I could grow corn, but squirrels make that impossible.
Reading
Quote
Landscape has a dangerous and deceiving repose, unlike cats or dogs who have eyes with which they can (gulp!) look right at you and sometimes do just that, as if they were persons, looking out of their own consciousness into yours and embarrassing and aweing you. Wild animals are only mobile landscape. Until you learn better, you think that a landscaped world can’t hurt you or please you, you needn’t bother about its soul, you needn’t be wary of its good looks.
Until you learn better.
~Joanna Russ, On Strike Against God, page 51
Listening
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James’s Kitchen Wizardry
We bought a pie pumpkin and James cooked it up this weekend, made some pumpkin butter, froze some puree for pumpkin pie later, and roasted the seeds with pumpkin spice. I have all the ingredients for cozy except the weather!
https://astoneintheriver.net/2024/09/29/yearning-for-cozy/
#amaranth #autumn #butternutSquash #chickadees #goldfinches #pumpkins #sorghum #sparrows
#SilentSunday #BloomScrolling #Amaranth in the morning sunlight. Happy equinox everyone 🍂
Now this looks like an interesting project: https://github.com/amaranth-lang/rtl-debugger
"VS Code based debugger for hardware designs in #Amaranth or #Verilog"
Can you tell us any more @whitequark ?
This colorful tabouli recipe is not just here to look pretty. It's packed with protein and nutrition. #amaranth #comfortfood #protein #vegan
https://www.healingtomato.com/tabouli-recipe/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into The Recipe Exchange @the-recipe-exchange-food
Been a while since I’ve done a #BloomScrolling post. We’re still in blooms despite punishing hot weather. Our chickens are going to go nuts for the amaranth.
Red Amaranth leaf and sweet potato soup #New #NewRecipes #Vegan #VeganFood #Amaranth #sweetpotato #soup #VeganSoup
SCARLET WITCH #6 INTRODUCES WANDA’S NEW PROTÉGÉ--AMARANTH!
AMARANTH debuts this November in Steve Orlando and Lorenzo Tammetta’s SCARLET WITCH #6.
This November, a young sorceress follows in the footsteps of Marvel’s greatest mystical hero! Amaranth, who was created by superstar artist Jen Bartel for last year’s New Champions variant cover program, will...
https://comiccrusaders.com/scarlet-witch-6-introduces-wandas-new-protege-amaranth/
#marvel #comics #comic books #scarlet witch #AMARANTH
