tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68646723001485279112024-03-13T19:36:28.030-07:00'Dirt Queen' ArchitectConnecting Natural Building and Architecture in The LowcountryAprilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04096657540964302308noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6864672300148527911.post-44626830628856561982012-03-20T18:47:00.000-07:002012-03-20T19:00:36.803-07:00The hardest 400 seconds of my life - Pecha Kucha<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Public speaking. I've always been terrified of it. Most of the time my face, uncontrollably, lights up like a radish anytime I find myself speaking to any large group. But about 6 months ago I sent the board a 'proposal' to let me speak at one of the future Pecha Kucha Charleston events. I made my story sound <i>real </i>good and promised to have people in mud on stage...real entertaining stuff! This event has gotten to be 'quite the rage' here in Charleston, with the latest event selling out in just <span style="color: yellow;">30 MIN!!! 400 PEOPLE!!! </span> Being that this particular <a href="http://charlestonparliament.com/category/pecha-kucha/">Pecha Kucha</a> was a special, all-female line-up, I felt particular honored to be asked to participate.<br />
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And so, about a week prior to the event, reality hit like a ton of rocks in the bottom of my stomach.<i> 'Why</i> <i>had I asked to do this?!'</i> No backing out now. So I got to work....thinking...typing....meditating....wait I should write in a notebook.....ok, back to the laptop....did I mention that not only is public speaking my nightmare, but I'm also not really fond of writing. Writing papers has always seemed so tortuous to me.<br />
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Finally after agonizing over this horrible task, I sat down and just channeled out what I was thinking. I tried to not worry about grammar and spelling, but to just let it flow....relaxed, like talking with friends.<br />
And I told my story. <b><span style="color: yellow;">About MUD</span></b>. About how mud came into my life. And why. And what it means.<br />
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My first pass totaled 11 min long. Shit.<br />
This has to be how long? 6 min. and 40 sec?!<br />
How in the world am I going to edit out HALF of this?! It's all good stuff!<br />
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Luckily I have very patient and helpful friends and family, who each took a pass at it and scratched and re-worded things here and there....my helpful editors.<br />
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I chiseled and chopped away. Timed myself on each paragraph over and over and over (thank you IPhone).<br />
I read aloud. My dog, Boney, was the forced audience time and time again, day after day.<br />
I stacked 3 stools up in my Living Room and pretended it to be a lectern.<br />
I video taped myself and watched it, which is extremely embarrassing!<br />
I rehearsed for my buddies.<br />
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And then it was time.<br />
I started my day with an Acupuncture Treatment at <a href="http://www.feelgreatcharleston.com/">Charleston Community Acupuncture</a>.<br />
Then I drank calming teas and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kava">Kava</a>.<br />
Neurotic. Yes. However, it got me through the day....calm....clear headed...and ready to take on one of the biggest challenges of my life thus far.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>So here it is kids....the hardest 6 min. & 40 sec. of my life..</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Pecha Kucha Charleston 13 - Ladies Night!</b></span><br />
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<br /></div>Aprilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04096657540964302308noreply@blogger.com4Ashley Hall, 172 Rutledge Ave, Charleston, SC 29403, USA32.787045 -79.944643132.773696 -79.96438409999999 32.800394 -79.9249021tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6864672300148527911.post-21970786873539676332012-03-07T09:17:00.004-08:002012-05-19T09:23:10.815-07:00Community-Build Project - Get Involved!!!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Yup folks, that's right....there's going to be another <b>Community-Build</b> project this Spring!!!! We'll be building another clay pizza oven, this time at the <a href="http://www.awendawgreen.com/">Awendaw Green</a> location!!! There's nothing much better than wood-fired pizza to enjoy along side the free Barn Jams on Wednesday nights! </div>
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Mix mud with your neighbor!</div>
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Learn about Natural Building and how you can build your very own back-yard clay oven!!!</div>
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Check out <a href="http://www.lowcountrynaturalbuilding.com/what-is-natural-building/upcoming-workshops/">http://www.lowcountrynaturalbuilding.com/what-is-natural-building/upcoming-workshops/</a> if interested in participating.</div>Aprilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04096657540964302308noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6864672300148527911.post-32991561505561295932012-02-29T04:11:00.005-08:002012-05-19T09:21:11.599-07:00Root Down Designs<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Check out my new company, Root Down Designs, @ <a href="http://www.lowcountrynaturalbuilding.com/">www.lowcountrynaturalbuilding.com</a>!!!<br />
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My latest adventure consisted of an amazingly rich and educational stay in Nicaragua for 2.5 weeks. This was my first experience in Central America...and what I'm considering to be the first of many more to come. Nicaragua popped into my vision this past Fall when I saw a post on Facebook from a non-profit operating in Nicaragua, called <a href="http://www.grupofenix.org/">Grupo Fenix</a>. This group is doing AMAZING things in the rural mountains of northern Nicaragua, in a small village called <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=yP7&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&gs_sm=3&gs_upl=17770l17770l0l18575l1l1l0l0l0l0l197l197l0.1l1l0&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.,cf.osb&biw=1280&bih=597&q=ocotal,+nicaragua&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=3YQ-T8ixG6Hw0gHAncTOBw&sa=X&oi=mode_link&ct=mode&cd=3&ved=0CA0Q_AUoAg">Sabana Grande</a>. This particular area of Nicaragua was heavily affected by the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Nicaragua">Sandinista/Contra Civil War</a> and by the resulting land mines which were left behind. This region has serious deforestation issues as well; being that the majority of people in the area cook with wood-fired stoves, Grupo Fenix has helped to define technology which promotes affordable solar cookers! Since Grupo Fenix is busy with so many wonderful programs, they need a classroom, or a meeting center which can be used to host events and meetings. This space can also be used by the community for their own events. Of course, it only makes sense to build this classroom using local, indigenous materials which are affordable and accessible to the people of this region.<br />
And so this is how I came to be involved with Natural Building in Nicaragua!<br />
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To check out what Susan Kinne (Director of Grupo Fenix) has been doing in Nicaragua, visit this short<a href="http://www.oprah.com/own-own-shorts/OWN-Original-Shorts-Susan-Kinne-Solar-Pioneer"> OWN video clip</a>.<br />
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building workshop was led by <a href="http://www.earthenendeavors.com/index.html">Liz Johndrow</a> and one of the major efforts
of the workshop was to really involve the women of Sabana Grande to be the builders,
with the help of a few handy, local men. This was the first time for
many of these women to step away from their role as cook and family
provider and work with their hands to build (but of course, these
amazing women were still up at 5am every morning slapping tortillas and
home by 5pm to start dinner!). <br />
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A handful of Natural Building techniques were employed in the
workshop; we focused on using several of the indigenous Nicaraguan
techniques, such as <i>adobe</i> and <i>tequeza</i>l. But we also constructed with
several other techniques to show the many ways of different Natural
Building methods you can use depending on the materials you have on
hand. The majority of the materials we used in all methods listed below
are: local earth dug up (clay sand mixture), sand from a local river,
straw, horse manure, a local cactus called <i>Pitaya</i>, water, local pine
needles, and locally harvested bamboo.<br />
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Listed below are the methods you will see in the pictures below.
Feel free to comment or contact me for more info on any of these
methods!:<br />
- <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe">Adobe</a><br />
- <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cob_%28material%29">Cob</a><br />
- <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wattle_and_daub">Wattle - Daub</a><br />
- Chorizo<br />
- Maya Cyclone<br />
- "ClayStraw Weave"<br />
- Tequezal<br />
- Wine Bottle Work <br />
- <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthen_plaster">Earthen Plaster</a><br />
- <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthen_floor">Earthen Floor</a> Sample<br />
- Clay Paint<br />
- <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lime_plaster">Lime Plaster </a>with Fresco<br />
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reads kind of like a movie (but if you scroll too fast you'll get dizy).<br />
There is still a lot of work left (plasters, floor, roof), but here's to 8 days of fun work! :-) <br />
Enjoy!!!<br />
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<br /></div>Aprilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04096657540964302308noreply@blogger.com3Avenida Drive Bartolome Mertinez, Matagalpa, Nicaragua12.92081 -85.917357910.940584999999999 -88.4442134 14.901035 -83.3905024tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6864672300148527911.post-52226719143333124202011-12-15T19:26:00.000-08:002012-05-19T09:07:21.892-07:00How to Build an Earthen Oven<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Ok, so I'm going to start describing how I built my first <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=earthen+oven&hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=HO4&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&prmd=imvns&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=yLPqTubNM8m4tgejhKG2Cg&ved=0CEMQsAQ&biw=1280&bih=597">Earthen Oven</a>. Well, technically my second, the first one I built here in my backyard and learned a great big lesson:</div>
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<i>Don't try and rush your earth oven in the middle of August in <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?q=charleston,+sc&hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=BQ4&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&noj=1&biw=1280&bih=597&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hq=&hnear=0x88fe7a42dca82477:0x35faf7e0aee1ec6b,Charleston,+SC&gl=us&ei=QbTqTujeA8XbtgfEtfT2CQ&sa=X&oi=geocode_result&ct=title&resnum=4&ved=0CH4Q8gEwAw">Charleston, SC</a> when the materials are wet as well as the air. Your oven will collapse. :-) </i></div>
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I learned how to build an earth oven from Kiko Denzer's '<a href="http://www.handprintpress.com/bookstore/build-your-own-earth-oven/">how-to' book</a>, as well as other people's blogs and websites, so I figured I might as well share my experience so others can learn from my experience...the good and the bad. Natural Building is a great style of building to experiment with on your own b/c there's really no high tech, expensive tools involved, the materials are hopefully free or cheap, and once you understand the materials and how to work with them, you can get very creative. </div>
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The oven I'll be mostly discussing will be the oven which was built at two separate workshops: </div>
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Workshop 2 - 1 day; Plaster layer and pizza cooking</div>
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The foundation was built during the week before the first workshop by me and my friend Elder Carlie Towne. She is an elder in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gullah">Gullah/Geechee Nation</a>. This is her property and her vision is to eventually have a Gullah/Geechee Camp Meeting Center; a place to discuss and understand this culture of African descendants, people who are dedicated to understanding their roots and preserving their heritage. The emergence of the earth oven is to allow us to start using the property, engage with the locals in <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?q=cross,+sc&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hq=&hnear=0x88fefea5bc6ca345:0xd6781ab02f40bcce,Cross,+SC&gl=us&ei=-LXqTtejHMHXtge7sZ3SCg&sa=X&oi=geocode_result&ct=title&resnum=2&ved=0CCoQ8gEwAQ">Cross, SC</a>, and bring this practice of Natural Building into rural South Carolina all the way down to the Charleston Low-Country. </div>
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The design of the cultural center was taken on as pro-bono work by myself and four other fellow Architects here in Charleston and supported by <a href="http://architectureforhumanity.org/">Architecture for Humanity</a>.</div>
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I hope that my rendition of 'How to Build Your Own Earthen Oven' is informative to those wishing to try it out! Please feel free to comment or ask questions!</div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'll get started with the building of the Foundation in my next post. </span></div>Aprilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04096657540964302308noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6864672300148527911.post-8899257519388052902011-12-14T17:06:00.000-08:002012-05-19T09:07:04.336-07:00300 Years of Fossil Fuels in 300 Seconds<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: large;">I recently came across this great 5 min. animation which breaks down the world's reliance on fossil fuels in a quick, easy to understand video; the video was produced by</span><span style="color: orange;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.postcarbon.org/" style="color: orange;">The Post Carbon Institute</a><span style="color: orange;">.</span></span></span></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i style="color: #cccccc;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b style="color: yellow;">Click here for the link: </b></span></span></i><b><i><br /></i></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJ-J91SwP8w">300 YEARS OF FOSSIL FUELS IN 300 SECONDS</a></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: white;">*For the full Earthen Oven Thanksgiving story, visit this <a href="http://www.dirtqueenarchitect.blogspot.com/2011/11/earth-oven-thanksgivingand-deep-fried.html">blog* </a></span><b style="color: red;"><u><br /></u></b></span><br />
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1 bunch fresh sage</div>
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1 bunch fresh rosemary</div>
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1/2 cup Brown Sugar (packed)</div>
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1/4 cup Spicy Brown Mustard</div>
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Arrange turkey breast side up in roasting pan or alternative (we used a metal grate on top of a baking pan). Grease bird all over with olive oil.</div>
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Stuff sage and rosemary into turkey.</div>
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Tie legs and wings together with twine.</div>
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After 30 min, remove, check temp, glaze, rotate 180 degrees, recover with foil, and put back in. </div>
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Remove, keep covered and turkey will rise to 165 on it's own.</span><br />
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Our turkey was 11 lbs and took approx. 1 hr. 15 min.</div>
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If you prefer a crispier skin, remove foil during last 30 min.</div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Enjoy!</span><br />
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</div>Aprilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04096657540964302308noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6864672300148527911.post-28842327969178795282011-11-29T12:32:00.001-08:002012-05-19T09:00:05.452-07:00An Earth Oven Thanksgiving....(and deep fried pumpkin pie)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Now that we have this Earth Oven in our backyard, and Thanksgiving is one of the few cool weather/bug free times of the year here in <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?q=maps&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&sa=N&tab=wl">Charleston</a>, we decided it was the perfect year to host Thanksgiving at our house. So both sides of our family came from Virginia and North Carolina, as well as some South Carolina family and friends...all total 20-25 people! I knew there would be tons of yummy foods...and some interesting ones too... and so here begins this tale of <span style="color: yellow;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gluttony">gluttony</a> and</span> <span style="color: yellow;">goodness</span> which we get to selfishly enjoy once a year!</div>
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<b style="color: #990000;">WEDNESDAY </b></div>
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We decided we better fire up the oven on Wednesday night and go ahead and knock some things out before company arrives later that night. We lit the oven around 6pm and got the fire real nice and hot and let it burn for the next 2 hours. I had decided to make a cake called <i style="color: yellow;">The Hobo Cake</i> which is a spice cake made in a cast iron skillet and cooked over fire or in an earth oven; this was going to be a surprise birthday cake for my mom and Matt's mom's birthdays. I killed the fire and let the oven cool a little, but my impatient self threw the cake in when the oven was still <b style="color: #783f04;">WAY</b> too hot! We closed the door and started sniffing the sweet smelling goodness cooking. After only 9 min. I decided to check on it; I pulled it out and it was <i style="color: orange;">black as tar</i> and <i style="color: orange;">smoking</i>!!! Completely <i style="color: orange;">black</i>! <b style="color: yellow;"> </b></div>
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<b style="color: red;">Lesson #1</b><i style="color: yellow;"><span style="color: red;">: </span>Never underestimate the Earth Oven's capability to hold heat, <b style="color: #cc0000;">hot</b> heat....for a long, long time. </i><br />
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We all dug into the middle of the burnt cake (I'm very sad I have no pictures to show) and decided it was pretty damn good as long as you didn't get a really big burnt chunk. We let the oven cool down more, and then I threw in 2 loaves of wheat bread I had made earlier in the week. Once again...<b style="color: red;">too hot!</b> There's a definite learning curve to the Earth Oven. They seemed to brown on the outside faster than the inside could cook.</div>
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(look back at my <a href="http://dirtqueenarchitect.blogspot.com/2011/10/earthen-oven-breads-curried-veggies.html">previous post</a> for bread baking)</div>
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After patiently waiting for over an hour since initially killing the fire, we threw in Jake's 2 home made pumpkin pies, which cooked up <i>beautifully </i>in about 20 min! I think we were finally at a good baking temp.</div>
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Lastly, we threw in raw <a href="http://startcooking.com/blog/299/How-to-Roast-Chestnuts">chestnuts</a> to roast....<b>YUM!</b> This was my first chestnut experience!</div>
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At the end of the night we filled the oven with semi-damp wood and closed the door as to dry out the wood and help retain heat for the morning cooking.</div>
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The next morning we lit the fire around 11am. The wood was surprisingly dry from spending the night in the oven, and the oven still very warm. The fire lit right up instantly and began to burn hot and clean. After only an hour we decided it was time to have some pizza appetizers! I rolled out a thin dough, which cooks up best in about 3 min, and we enjoyed a few <a href="http://dirtqueenarchitect.blogspot.com/2011/10/earth-oven-pizza.html">wood-fired pizzas</a>, just to wet our palettes. Mom made a pumpkin bread dough which was rising in the sun.<br />
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Once the oven felt to be a good temp for the turkey (375), we slid it in, closed the door, and waited 30 min. to check. After 30 min the turkey was starting to brown in just a few places already and smelled <i>delicious</i>! We rotated 180 and put back in (after glazing) for another 30 min. We check again, looking even browner and better! Rotate 180, glaze, put back in. Lucky for us, my brother Kevin shows up right after the third 30 min. interval (he can be very slow), with the meat thermometer. We checked the temp and it rose to almost 180 degrees! (it only needed to be at 160). It was golden brown and crispy, the most beautiful turkey I've ever laid eyes on! (Recipe on blog to follow) So, it cooked for a total of an hour and a half, but I honesty believe it was done around 1 hr - 1 hr. 15 min. (11 lbs bird). </div>
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Once the turkey came out, other people threw a variety of dishes into the oven to either heat up or to cook; just to name a few: eggplant casserole, mac n cheese, stuffing, vegetable medley....(drool).</div>
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Jake let up the grill and we all consumed local oysters with a buttery/spicy dipping sauce.<br />
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The day was spent almost entirely outside, near the oven, <span style="color: yellow;">eating</span>, in the yard, under the oak, playing music, <span style="color: yellow;">eating</span>, laughing, at the bon fire, playing corn hole, can-on-a-stick, and <span style="color: yellow;">eating</span>....we all slept like babies.<br />
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Kevin makes a <i>turkey/mashed potato/gravy pizza</i>, then there's a <i>kale/mashed potato pizza</i>. Then someone pulls out the <i>eggplant casserole </i>and it's one of the most delicious pizzas we've ever had!!! We try for vegetable medley but it's too wet and rips the dough. As we get hungry for something sweet we try <i>cranberry sauce with cream cheese icing and sliced apples</i>, then we throw a brie wheel in a skillet, pour fig jam all over it and melt it into creamy goodness!<br />
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These guys are turning it out....the music is blaring, the oil is popping, and the geniuses are at work. They fry pickles (frickles) and jalapenos. They fry mashed potatoes. <span style="font-size: large;">Then...the grand finale....they fry <b style="color: red;">pumpkin pie bites</b>! But wait, that's not all....then they <b><span style="color: red;">inject the pumpkin pie</span></b> bites with home made whipped cream!!! <i><span style="color: red;">It's like a Thanksgiving Twinkee!!! </span></i></span><br />
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After delving into the fry master's inventions, we are all completely full and content (and a bit sick feeling). Although these 3 days were over the top, extreme, a bit unhealthy, and probably somewhat wasteful, the beauty in it all was the coming together of family and friends...to cook and to create and to eat together. The Earth Oven definitely did it's job this year! I heard several comments such as, '<i>It just makes cooking fun again</i>' and '<i>it completely changes the whole eating experience</i>!' </div>
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<b style="color: red;">Lesson #4</b>: <i>Eat, drink, and be merry...over-indulge every now and then, sit back and laugh, and most of all, be Thankful for being able to experience this kind of a life!!! And NEVER, underestimate the Earth Oven. </i></div>
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mindlessly flipping through TV channels at my mother-in-law’s house the other night,
I got caught by a show on HGTV called ‘<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;"><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1785938/">Holmes Inspection</a></span>.’ The featured show casts a tough looking
builder guy with a crew cut and overalls, along with his trusty entourage of tight black T-shirt wearing guys
with dust masks which he orders around by saying things like, ‘<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;"><i><b>drop</b> this ceiling</i>!</span>’ and
‘<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;"><i><b>kill </b>this stud here</i>!</span>’ The edition, like
so many shows these days, showcased the confused homeowners with a house full
of problems and no idea what to do. So
the trusty building team came to the rescue to renovate while the couple is
away; turning their problem-ridden home
into the ‘healthy’ and’ safe’ home they deserve.</span></span></div>
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Hot-Shot Builder guy starts in the bathroom where I do admit, the bathtub recessed into the floor to be a bit strange, declares this to be a
‘</span><i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left;">tripping hazard</i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left;">!,’ and this is simply ‘</span><i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left;"><b>unsafe</b></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left;">!’ He stands up, dramatically bangs his hammer into the tile
shower surround, and orders one of the tight black shirt crew men to ‘</span><b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;">Take it
out</span></i></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;">!</span>.’</span></td></tr>
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Scene</b>:</span> the fiberglass tub and tiles are ripped from the bathroom and thrown
into the oversized green dumpster sitting in the driveway of the house. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Later
in the show we learn that a brand new fiberglass tub and new tiles are
re-installed in the exact same place! I could never quite understand why the same perfectly good tub couldn’t be
reused? Or why all of the tiles had to
be ‘dumpstered’ as well, and retiled? Or why the perfectly good tub went to the
landfill to begin with???</span></div>
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camera crew then shows us shot upon shot of demolition....walls and ceilings
coming down all over the place….and the big green dumpster outside is
filling…and filling…and filling…................<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Obviously Mr. Holmes is not </span><i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">really</i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"> in control of a </span><i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">real</i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">
budget with </span><i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">real</i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"> money, because most
homeowners don’t like to hear things like ‘It’s</span><i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"> <b>probably</b></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;"> alright but we’re going to spend $5000 of your money replacing
it anyways, is that OK?’ And I suppose
it never occurred to him that checking the code book really <i>isn't</i> rocket
science, but then again this is TV and thumbing through the Building Code doesn't really make for good ratings.</span></span></div>
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it is funny to sit back and crack jokes and poke fun at the annoying home
remodeling shows (and trust me, Architects love this kind of fun ), all jokes
aside, shows and messages like this are disturbing and are a disservice to all who
watch it and believe in this model as an industry. The message of this show, as
I saw it, was to <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;">throw away</span></b>, and <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;">rebuild</span></b>; just toss it all in the big ol’
dumpster that takes all of our garbage into the invisible landfill that we will
never have to see again! <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;"><b>Voila!</b></span> The decisions made
were made from <i>speculation;</i> not <i>knowledge</i>.
Not once was the idea of salvaging or recycling or simply improving the
house with a minimal amount of impact and waste ever entertained; not even with
the perfectly good bath tub that was tossed in the big green dumpster. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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building industry was flooded with cheap, fast housing; cookie cutter
houses; houses with little to no thought
about materials, functionality, aesthetics, or longevity. Investments were the focus, and faster and
cheaper was better. That was then and
this is now. The year 2011; we’re knee deep into ‘Green Building’ for Pete’s
sake! The construction industry produces the </span><i style="font-size: 11pt;">largest</i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11pt;"> amount of landfill waste
over any other industry in the United Sates.
In a world which is currently overpopulated, over-polluted, and natural
resources are diminishing, we as </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;">individuals</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11pt;">...and </span><i style="font-size: 11pt;"><b>especially</b></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11pt;"> those of us who serve in the building industry have an
obligation to become </span><i style="font-size: 11pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;">creative</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11pt;"> and </span><i style="font-size: 11pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;">efficient</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11pt;"> in how we deal with these
situations; our decisions should be based off of research and knowledge and
when we do have to demolish items, have we exhausted all options for re-use and
salvaging before mindlessly tossing our fiberglass bath tubs into the
dumpster??? </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">HGTV's</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11pt;"> message of </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;">unconscious</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;">wastefulness</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11pt;"> and uneducated decision-making is</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"> influencing <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;">78,000</span> people across America who are now watching this show, I personally find this to be disturbing. Not only do we as individuals and professionals need to take responsibility for our construction-based decisions, but our TV networks <i>should</i> have an obligation to think harder about the messages they are broadcasting as well. Perhaps if these well-watched programs focused <i>even a little</i> on the ideas behind conservation and creative solutions and less on the wasteful practices which have been haunting us for over two decades now, then maybe a small percentage of the 78,000 people might make different decisions about their own home and their own waste; and in this inter-connected world in which we live, better decisions equals a better future for all of us and for this fragile Earth.</span></div>
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</div>Aprilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04096657540964302308noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6864672300148527911.post-32319338061352129332011-10-25T16:54:00.000-07:002012-05-19T08:40:43.428-07:00Earthen Oven Breads, Curried Veggies, Beans & More!!!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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So, I just had my first experience, ever,<i> really</i> baking...like, <b><i>really</i></b> baking: kneading out dough, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAj1Umlfhcc">'proofing'</a>, 'knocking-back,' and all of these other terms I had to <a href="http://www.google.com/">Google</a>. My newly built Earthen Oven in my backyard has sparked a sudden interest in learning to bake <a href="http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-artisan-bread.htm">artisan breads</a> and other goodies. So far, we've cooked in our oven using a live fire (like with the pizza) or hot coals burning and 'sizzling' food. In order to bake <a href="http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-artisan-bread.htm">artisan breads</a>, you cook in your Earthen Oven in a slightly different manner which allows you to bake over a long period of time. I decided to start with 3 loaves of bread and then used the (10 hours) of remaining retained heat to cook dinner which consisted of curried vegetables and rice. I then followed this up with a pot of beans to slow-cook over night, much to my surprise and amazement.....the Earthen Oven strikes again with perfectly cooked, non-mushy beans! I removed these the next morning. I'd like to share my experiences baking breads and other delicious foods in my earth oven as I experiment and eat. I'll post a few of my recipes along the way too!</div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I used the recipe on the back of the bread flour bag left over from the pizza party. I tripled the recipe because I figure if you're going to light up the oven, you might as well use it to it's full capacity. Thanks to </span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWj8oHMPFm0" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">this lady</a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> on You Tube, I took my turn at kneading out the dough (she made it look a lot easier than it was). Several sloppy attempts later, I placed the 3 balls of dough in my bowls to rise, and about an hour later I '</span><a href="http://artisanbreadbaking.com/techniques/folding/" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">knocked them back</a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">' and let them rise again. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">At this point I went ahead and lit the fire since I knew I'd need to let it burn for 1-2 hours before having enough retained heat to bake for a while. You're going to want to get your fire burning really HOT, to where the flames are actually shooting out of the door! Keep stoking this fire. I kept mine going until my dough was just about ready to go in, which ended up being about 1hr. 45 min. and it seemed to do the trick. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">While the oven was heating up, I '</span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPal8VnM5jQ" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">shaped</a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">' the dough into round balls and cut an 'X' into the tops. At this point the fire was SUPER hot and I was running out of wood anyways. I tried to hold my arm in the oven for an '8 Mississippi count', but I think I got to about 2 or 3 (arm hairs are still in tact). At this point, I let the fire burn down to coals, and then I spread the coals out evenly over the hearth and let it sit for about 10 min. I then used a hoe to scrape the coals out into a wheelbarrow...be careful of hot coals if you have bare feet! Once the coals were out, I wet a cotton rag and wiped the hearth down to clean the surface. I then put the oven door on to 'wash' the oven. This period of time helps the hearth floor become an even temperature all over and helps regulate the temperatures inside of the oven as a whole. I decided to test the temperature to see if it was ready for breads and I threw in a handful of wheat flour. I had read that if it browns in 10-20sec. then it's good for bread, and if it burns up fast, the oven is too hot and you should let it sit. My flour looked good so I gave it a go! After flouring the bakers peel and putting the first loaf on, I sprayed the top of the bread with water to add steam in the oven. (this might be unnecessary). I popped the first loaf in, closed the door tight, and sat back and crossed my fingers. About 20 min. later I could smell it cooking from indoors and I just couldn't take the suspense any longer. Much to my surprise, this golden brown, beautiful round loaf was staring me in the face! I quickly got it out, as it maybe looked a little <i>too</i> brown, and put it on racks to cool. I prepped the other 2 loaves and threw those in at the same time for the second round of bread baking. I decided on this batch to turn them 180 degrees after 10 min. It seemed that the oven was not <i>quite</i> as hot on this go 'round, so I rotated them and decided to leave these for another 20 min. After a total cook time of 30 min. I pulled out two lightly golden brown <b><i>perfect</i></b> loaves! I waited 45 min. or so before cutting into the first loaf...crispy crunchy outside, warm soft inside. Delish!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'll go ahead and share my bread recipe with you and then tell you how I decided to use the remaining heat in the oven.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What to do with all of this remaining heat you ask? Well just keep on cookin'!!! Practically anything you have in your fridge or cabinets you can cook in the earthen oven and this will provide you with good eats for the remainder of the week. I decided to throw together a curried vegetable dish in the cast iron pan and some rice with coconut milk. The veggies cooked up beautifully in only about 25 min with one stirring. The rice however, I think I'll need to keep experimenting with because it was still <i>very</i> watery after the 25 min.; I decided to finish it up on the stove top because I was starving! The oven was still so hot, but being that we haven't been to the grocery store in a while, I was having trouble finding other things to cook. I ran across a bag of dried beans, which I had heard you could slow-cook in the ovens, but didn't quite buy it. I tossed the beans in a metal pot, covered them with water, put the lid on, and then stuck it in the oven. I closed the door and decided to forget about it until the morning, <i>completely</i> thinking I'd wake up to either hard beans and water, or pure mush. Around 8am the next morning, I pulled the oven door off (still hot) and pulled out the most perfectly cooked beans I'd ever seen!!! Not mushy! But crispy and well-cooked! Looks like dinner for tonight!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span><b style="color: yellow;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So all in all....in one firing of 1 hr. 45 min. and a small bucket of scrap wood, I cooked 3 loaves of delicious bread, curried vegetables, and a pot of beans!!! Not bad for my first try. I think next time I'll have even more dishes lined up to cook up! Good (and healthy) eats!!!</span></b><br />
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Ever wonder what's better than pizza? <b style="color: yellow;">EARTH OVEN PIZZA!!! </b></div>
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Fresh made dough, cooked in a clay oven, next to a live fire is just about one of the tastiest foods you could ever put in your mouth. There is just so much satisfaction in eating pizza that you rolled out with your own hands and then cooked in an oven which is <i>also</i> made with your own two hands. It just tastes better this way!</div>
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I recently completed an Earthen Oven in my backyard in preparation for a workshop I would be teaching later. (my building process will be outlined in future posts) </div>
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Shortly after completing the insulation layer, we had my 31st Birthday Pizza Party and tested out these Earth Oven Pizzas I'd read so much about. I'd like to share our recipe for the dough (which turned out really well) and the process for cooking them.</div>
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First off, get your fire going <b><span style="color: yellow;">hot.</span></b></div>
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Start by using small kindling up near the oven opening and once it's burning well, push the fire back farther into the oven and continue to feed it. Continue this process until you have a clean, well-burning fire burning towards the rear of the oven; you will start to see the flames actually curling up out of the opening. Watch out!!! I melted the back of my jacket while trying to warm my bum. (not cool) Keep feeding the fire for the next 45 min. - 1hr.</div>
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Once the oven is so hot inside that you can't hold your hand inside of the oven for more than a couple of seconds, and you have a nice bed of hot coals around the perimeter of the oven, you're ready to cook!</div>
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<b style="color: yellow;">COOKING</b></div>
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Roll out a small handful of dough on a non-stick surface. We had an old piece of granite in our backyard which worked well for dough rolling. Sprinkle some flour or cornmeal down to prevent sticking. The dough should only be 1/8" - 1/4" thick once rolled out and a 10" - 12" circle makes for a good personal size pizza and easy to handle once in the oven.</div>
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Arrange your sauce, toppings, and cheese on the pizza.</div>
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Transfer the pizza onto a pizza peel; be sure to sprinkle the peel with flour or cornmeal to prevent sticking.</div>
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Stoke the fire again prior to cooking pizza; be sure you have a well-burning, hot fire going.</div>
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Slide the pizza in with the peel. With a quick 'jab,' the pizza will slip right off of the peel and on to the hot firebrick hearth. (custom pizza peels as seen in the below picture by my partner, Matt McQueen of <a href="http://www.handcraftedllc.com/">Handcrafted, LLC</a>)</div>
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Instantly, you will start to see the cheese bubbling, the dough curling up, and that wonderful aroma starts to hit you in the nose!</div>
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After approx. 1 min, rotate the pizza around 180 degrees. You could use your peel, but we found a long handle spatula or long handle tongs worked well for this rotation.</div>
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Let the pizza cook for another 1-2 min. and once it looks evenly browned around the edges and browned on top, use your spatula or peel to remove pizza from the oven. (notice in the picture below how the coals and the fire spread around the full perimeter of the oven interior vs. burning only in one spot)</div>
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Now dig in!!! Please realize that you will never think of pizza in the same way again. :-)</div>
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You should be able to cook 3 or 4 pizzas before having to re-stoke the fire. Continue to stoke the fire and keep a live fire going as long as you want to keep cooking.</div>
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The pizzas were a huge hit at the party and we easily fed around 35 people with no problems.</div>
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Cooking around the oven outside made for a great atmosphere and everyone fully enjoyed the experience, so much so that we had a second round of hungry pizza lovers later in the night! Being that the oven was still so hot, we were able to add more wood and simply blow (with a narrow tube) oxygen into the rear of the oven and it lit back up instantly!</div>
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<b>RECIPE</b></div>
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Here is the recipe we used for the pizza dough:</div>
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2 teaspoons of active dry yeast</div>
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2 1/4 cup warm water</div>
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2 teaspoons of sugar</div>
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1/4 cup olive oil</div>
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5 cups bread flour</div>
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1 tablespoon salt</div>
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Dissolve the yeast in warm water and let stand for 5 min.</div>
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Add sugar, oil, and flour and stir. Add salt last and stir.</div>
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Kneed dough until soft, smooth, and elastic (about 8-10 min).</div>
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Transfer the dough into a bowl and cover with plastic wrap.</div>
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Wait until the dough doubles in side and then punch down.</div>
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Cover and refrigerate or use instantly.</div>
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Remove from refrigerator about 1 hr. before using; allow to become room temperature.</div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(this recipe will make approx. ten personal size, thin crust pizzas)</span></div>Aprilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04096657540964302308noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6864672300148527911.post-42655340049033091852011-10-11T13:49:00.001-07:002012-05-19T08:24:24.262-07:00What Can You Build?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Natural Building techniques can be applied to everything
from a decorative finish to a full scale house.
The following are examples of Natural Building applications: Interior and Exterior Earthen Plasters,
Earthen Floors, Earthen Benches, Earthen Ovens & Cook Tops, Fireplaces
& Heaters, parts of Structures or full Structures. Natural Building techniques and applications
can work in conjunction with new conventional buildings as well as renovations
of existing conventional buildings.
Aesthetically, the sculptural and curving qualities of the clay create richness
in color and overall ‘warmth’ which is often missing from conventional
construction materials.</span> </span><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The materials common in Natural Building are clay and
sand which vary in quality and availability depending on geographic location.
When mixed with water and, usually, straw or another fiber, the mixture may
form<span style="color: orange;"> </span></span></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cob_%28material%29" title="Cob (material)"><i><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: orange; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">cob</span></span></i></a><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> or<span style="color: orange;"> </span></span></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe" title="Adobe"><i><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: orange; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">adobe</span></span></i></a><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> (clay
blocks). Other materials commonly used in Natural Building are: earth (as </span></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rammed_earth" title="Rammed earth"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: orange; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">rammed earth</span></span></a><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> or </span></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthbag_construction" title="Earthbag construction"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: orange; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">earth bag</span></span></a><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">), wood (</span></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cordwood_construction" title="Cordwood construction"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: orange; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">cordwood</span></span></a><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> or </span></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timber_frame" title="Timber frame"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: orange; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">timber frame</span></span></a><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: orange;">/post-and-beam</span>),
</span></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw-bale_construction" title="Straw-bale construction"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: orange; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">straw</span></span></a><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> bale, rice-hulls, </span></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bamboo" title="Bamboo"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: orange; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">bamboo</span></span></a><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> and </span></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_%28geology%29" title="Rock (geology)"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: orange; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">rock</span></span></a><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">. A wide variety
of reused or </span></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recycled" title="Recycled"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: orange; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">recycled</span></span></a><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> materials
are common in Natural Building, including urbanite (salvaged chunks of used
concrete), tires, tire bales, discarded bottles and other recycled glass.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</div>Aprilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04096657540964302308noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6864672300148527911.post-30118041306771926342011-10-10T17:50:00.000-07:002012-05-19T08:13:39.222-07:00What is Natural Building?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN">The construction industry as a whole is the largest
contributor of landfill waste, contributing 40% of the total waste each year. New home construction</span><span lang="EN"> comes at a tremendous expense
to the planet. Building 1.7 million homes with traditional wood, steel </span><span lang="EN">and concrete frames consumes the same amount of energy </span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Garamond, serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">as heating and cooling 10 million houses each year. The
environmental costs stem largely from the manufacture of materials. Using natural
materials that require minimal processing and refining substantially reduces
environmental impacts.<b><span style="font-weight: normal;"></span></b></span>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: white;"><b style="color: #f3f3f3;"><span lang="EN">Natural building</span></b><b style="color: #f3f3f3;"><span lang="EN" style="font-weight: normal;">, not to be
confused with ‘Green Building’ and sometimes referred to as ‘Alternative
Building Methods,’</span></b><span lang="EN" style="color: #f3f3f3;"> offers a way to construct a
home (as well as a multitude of other items) with renewable, naturally
occurring and locally available materials with a low-embodied energy, as
opposed to industrial or man-made products. Many of these materials are
available throughout the world and are often recycled or salvaged materials, so
the costs and pollution associated with the transportation of these materials
across the country falls. As a bonus, many Natural Building methods are energy efficient</span><span lang="EN"><span style="color: #f3f3f3;">, inexpensive and easy to build with little technical construction
knowledge. Natural building relies on human labor vs. technology, which
encourages community and personal involvement during the building process.</span><span style="color: #f3f3f3;"> </span><span style="color: #f3f3f3;">As a result, participants gain knowledge through
direct experience, participate in their community, and leave feeling empowered
by designing and creating with their own two hands.</span><span style="color: #f3f3f3;"> </span><span style="color: #f3f3f3;">Natural Building is available to everyone,
regardless of income or credit status.</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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