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Cake day: January 23rd, 2025

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  • nettle@mander.xyztoCooking @lemmy.worldMultitaskers
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    7 months ago

    Mines simple: a small desert bowl.

    • Super easy way to make fancy steam poached eggs - pour a thin layer of water on the bottom of a pot and place small bowls on top (Coat each bowl with oil beforehand). crack an egg into each bowl, turn on heat and place lid on. Cook until white is firm but yoke runny. Serve on bread with avacado or butter
    • place on top of butter to keep fresh
    • cookie cutter! (Good for other doughs too)
    • mini terrarium for micro greens (if bowl is glass)
    • your own unique measuring unit that no-one else will understand
    • upside down as a stand for raising other dishes up
    • 1 person baking vessel - bake things in it
    • scooper
    • lid for jar
    • pot for herbs


  • My favourite sandwich ingredient would have to be avacado. Though I realise its unobtainable for most people, Im lucky to grow 2 fruiting tree’s so get em for free.

    fresh baked bread with a drizzle of olive oil. Toped with avacado, homegrown olives tomato and lettuce (and some very old Edam if you feel like it). But don’t forget to add some homemade Rocoto chilli sauce somewhere along the way, adding some sweet tropical spice.

    Unfortunately avacados are seasonal. We get them for about half the year. For the other half I must sit and wait, patiently biding my time. Waiting for the sun to rise on a day when the avacados will ripen once more.



  • The hairs are naturaly made by the plant and are called trichomes.

    The “hairs interfere with the feeding of at least some small herbivores and, depending upon stiffness and irritability to the palate, large herbivores as well. Hairs on plants growing in areas subject to frost keep the frost away from the living surface cells. In windy locations, hairs break up the flow of air across the plant surface, reducing transpiration. Dense coatings of hairs reflect sunlight, protecting the more delicate tissues underneath in hot, dry, open habitats. In addition, in locations where much of the available moisture comes from fog drip, hairs appear to enhance this process by increasing the surface area on which water droplets can accumulate.” wikipedia

    The stinging spikes of stinging nettles are also a type of modified trichome which is pretty cool