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How to Make Fermented Mallow Leaves
So there are mallow plants growing all over Southern California right now, maybe even as weeds in your yard. But you can preserve them now to enjoy later after they are gone.
First, find some mallow plants with big leaves. With all the rain this year, they can get huge. Make sure they don't have orange rust spots on them and are blemish free (we will remove insects in a subsequent step).
You will need a large amount of leaves as they will compact down a lot in subsequent steps. But you can keep adding more each day until your container is full. You can use scissors or clippers to cut the leaves off the stem, as shown below. You want as little stem as possible as it interferes with layering.
The first thing we need to do is thoroughly wash both sides in running water to remove insects, dirt, etc. Discard any leaves with orange rust spots or serious insect damage. After washing, spin dry in a salad spinner. They don't have to be completely dry, just not super wet.
Now that our mallow leaves are clean and excess water removed, we are going to do the really hard part of this recipe. Grab a small plate and put some granular sea salt on it. (I used Kirkland Signature sea salt, but any brand of sea salt is fine. Do not use iodized salt or chemical salt/NaCl.)
Grab a leaf, then touch the salt (you should pick up a small amount on your damp fingers), then rub onto both sides of the leaf. It should feel like rubbing it with sand. You only need a small, evenly distributed amount on both sides to draw out the moisture. Once the leaves are rubbed in salt, start stacking them in a clean glass container (I used a half gallon kimchi jar, but a glass bowl will also work).
Stack them in layers, altering position on the leaves to keep everything as flat as possible. Try not to tear or otherwise damage the leaves. Once you have added your leaves, add a bit of liquid culture from live, active kimchi or sauerkraut.
This is extra liquid from a previous batch. That will also work. Let everything sit for at least a week to ferment, pressing down daily into the liquid. Then put it in the fridge until you need them. If you want to use them right away, soak in plain water to desalt (optional). You can also use them as a substitute for fresh seaweed.
To store them long term, the next step is to dehydrate them. This will make them crispy like chips and they can be eaten whole & dried (you can also coat them with a thin coat of oil prior to drying if they will be eaten right away, but don't do this if they will be stored more than a week).
The batch shown above had some kimchi brine added, which gives it a reddish color. I dried them on parchment paper to make it easier to get them off the dehydrator tray. If you have some that break, put them aside to be ground up into a salt substitute, as shown below.
You can grind the dry leaves quite easily, I used a wooden pestle (or even a small glass/metal container with a flat bottom) in a salad bowl. Pass them through a sieve if you want them to be a uniform size (keep grinding the bigger pieces until they pass through.)
The powder has a nice flavor (a bit seaweed like) and can be used to add salt & flavor to dishes and baked goods.
#california native plants#urban foraging#free food#california mallow#wild food#wild edibles#fermentation#fermented foods#fermented leaves#seaweed substitute#sustainability#losangeles#leaf wrap
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Chaparral Mallow
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Creating a Colorful and Biodiverse Garden: Companion Planting with Firecracker Penstemon
Welcome to our gardening blog, where we explore creative and sustainable ways to enhance the beauty and biodiversity of your outdoor space. Today, we’re excited to delve into the world of companion planting with Penstemon eatonii, commonly known as Firecracker Penstemon. This stunning native plant with its fiery red blooms can bring a burst of color and attract beneficial wildlife to your garden.…
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#Agave Species#Arid Landscape Aesthetics#Blue Palo Verde#Brittlebush#California poppy#Color Coordination in Gardens#Companion Planting#desert gardening#Desert Marigold#Drought-Tolerant Plants#Eco-Friendly Plant Choices#Firecracker Penstemon#Garden Design Ideas#Globe Mallow#Golden Barrel Cactus#Native Desert Plants#Plant Pairings#Purple Sage#Red Yucca#Santa Rita Prickly Pear#Sustainable Gardening#Wildlife Attracting Plants#Xeriscaping
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Lands End, San Francisco 11/22/22 by Sharon Mollerus
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for the spotify wrapped writing thing: 23 + (pre-series?) samdean ❤️
Sam arrives in Palo Alto a day before the dorm move-in date. He could've arranged early move-in but his timing was off. All that planning to get here and he didn't think, somehow, about how telling the truth on Wednesday instead of Thursday would have caused a tectonic crack in the center of the country, and he'd ended up on an earlier bus, and across the country in a furious miserable blur to end up -- a day early, and nowhere to sleep. The girl at the desk doesn't know what to do with him and offers uncertainly to call her supervisor but he tells her not to worry about it. He can get a motel, if she's got a phonebook.
Another two buses, city this time, to get far enough away from the university that the motels are something he can afford. Not the first entry in the yellow pages but, then, he isn't trying to be found. The clerk gives him a distrustful look and says they don't rent by the hour and Sam hitches his duffel higher on his shoulder and tries to look less like a homeless teenager handing over scammed, grimy cash. All he could save and all he was given, in shoved messy handfuls, in those last moments in the dark, last night.
Last night. A thousand miles away, in a dim brown room with a king bed and a broken mini-fridge, it feels -- impossible. Like it's been a month. Like it happened right outside the door he's bolted and chained, the shouting still shaking the windows. He was so angry he thought he'd start through punches; now he's just -- tired. Exhausted. Hungry, and normally right now it'd be the negotiation -- pizza or lo mein, not burgers, we had burgers last night -- but he's on his own, and there's no one to make the decision but himself. How it's going to be, from now until...
He sits on the end of the bed and holds his cell between two hands for long enough that his back hurts from being hunched, and then he calls himself an idiot and dials. It rings and rings and then goes to voicemail. He hangs up. What was he thinking? He falls back on the bed, bouncing a little -- it smells like dust -- and the night ahead is a deep and looming darkness, and then his phone rings, and he opens it and holds it to his ear and says, "Dean?" with his voice this embarrassing thin thing, and there's a pause and Dean says, wherever he is somewhere else in the country, Who else would it be, genius, and he doesn't sound glad to hear from Sam but he doesn't sound mad, either, so Sam will take what he can get.
The conversation isn't good. He says he got there safe. He's moving into the dorm tomorrow and has a motel tonight. It gross? Nah, it's okay. Met any hot California babes yet? No, he says, no, of course not, and Dean says huh but not in a way where Sam knows what it means. When last week, a thousand miles from here, Dean had curled up tight against his back and wiped a messy hand on Sam's shirt, made him splutter and say gross! and Dean said, yeah, so what, whose turn is it to do laundry anyway, and Sam said yours, and Dean said, soft against the back of Sam's neck, huh, and Sam was sticky and sweaty and kinda irritated but also soft inside like a tub of mallow fluff and he knew that Dean was smiling, so he smiled too, turning it into the pillow so Dean couldn't see it. Maybe Dean knew anyway but at least he couldn't see it.
The call time was six minutes, thirty-two seconds. At the end Dean said, well, don't be a stranger, and Sam said, "You too," which didn't make a lot of sense, and then the line went dead without either of them saying goodbye. It's eight at night and Sam's in the city where he'll live for at least four years and he wanted more than anything in the world to be here and he knows it was the right decision, the only one he could have made. He knows that as much as he knows his own name, or his brother's.
The night ahead stretches. The room is quiet.
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Will it Cereal? - A Review in two parts:
Aaaaah, Rhett and Link! I love you guys every weekday morning gracing my TV screen. Your silly antics and banter make me smile. Your tshirts are fun and funky. Your paid subscription service is unique and enjoyable. I'm a Mythical Beast, it's fair to say.
Now, anyone that knows these two knows they love Peanut Butter and they love cereal. Especially Link. So therefore, I jumped when they brought out their own cereal. They were hyping it up as a bowl of nostalgia with a less serious concept, and an 80's vibe.
I will give my final overall rating at the end.
I decided to split my taste test between the two cereals. First up is the "Sweet Mac N Mello":
Cost: ⭐️⭐️/⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️: This cereal is EXPENSIVE. The two pack is cost prohibitive and the four pack is over $30! Add to this that many have mistaken a subscription to the cereal for a one time purchase, and it's apparent there's a cost issue here. Yes I get that it's not in stores and that'll inflate cost being direct to consumer, but it's a damn small box to boot (9oz.). Low marks here.
The Experience: ⭐️/⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️: This cereal is made in LA, and then (in my case) took a tour of the US Postal network: Idaho, Iowa, Illinois, Ohio, Arizona, then a week in Whittier, California only about three hours from the manufacturing point and then three days in Las Vegas before another two more days waiting in the North Las Vegas distribution center. The shipping is NOT streamlined and is definitely in need of an upgrade.
The box is weak, glue issues on some, and structural deficiencies on mine. The backs are barely hanging on by a thread.
The bags are glued shut well, preserving freshness which is one kudos I can give.
The Randler on the box is retro and the colors used are vibrant, it's a pleasing design.
Taste: ⭐️⭐️/⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️: It's bland. Apparently Rhett and Link had to find some place that would make elbow macaroni cereal noodles for this cereal. It was a cute idea in thought, and absolutely awful in execution. The noodles are gigantic and you'll find yourself trying to cram five or six at a time into your maw, only for the majority of the ones on your spoon to splashdown bowlside and the milk typhoons up onto you. If you aren't so lucky, the shape of the cereal will hold onto milk and will dump plenty on you because they're hollow.
Initially I thought the taste was that of Kix, but after a bowl I've decided that it's more closely that of Honeycomb. The cereal itself even reminds me of that brand, even down to the mouthfeel. The mallows are tiny by comparison and are of the sort you find in instant packs with hot cocoa mix. Imparting a generic lightly sweet crunch.
The cereal milk is weird. There's a greasy sheen on top of the milk, it has a vanilla milk smell while the milk is still cold, and begins to smell of coffee after sitting for about five minutes. After 20 minutes it reaches room temp and the smell is popcorn. The milk tastes absolutely disgusting, ending up tasting like someone melted a stick of butter in a glass of milk. Very little sweetness and I can't see any kid drinking this.
As a dry snack, it tastes worse and the texture is styrofoam meets wet cardboard. The taste gives off stale cornmeal vibes which is odd for a fresh bag of cereal.
Overall: ⭐️⭐️/⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️: This cereal won't cereal. It barely is edible. I now have to eat one and a third boxes of it. Fun times. The PB and Honey I'm hoping is a lot more flavorful. The experience was bad, the product is not good and it's kinda ironic that Rhett and Link would push the retro angle so hard and not give us what made 80's cereals so great: SUGAR. Once again: SUGAR. SUGAR. SUGAR. It needs it soooooo bad.
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Wild mallow flowers, Northern California coast
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@buglr I ask for your knowledge again
I've got these fellows who were chewing up my Orange Mallow and couldn't find an ID for them through google. They're about as long as a nail or juuuuust a little bit longer.
I have a bigger container I can put them in but for now they have to hang in the baby corner.
(Without being too specific, I'm in Southern California!)
#caterpillars#bugs#entomology#I don't know if it helps but they only seem to eat the flowers/inside of the flowers#They don't eat the leaves#I would be fine with having them on my Orange Mallow if they ate the leaves#Sure I would have to move them eventually#But it is what it is#They're stupid cute though#I'm wanting to keep them but there's no guarantee they'll stay in the container cause the holes at the top are too big#RIP#buglr
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Transformative Fields
July 1, 2022
Blooming in all their glory, the pride and joy of California abounds as summer's sun shines on. Shine with it, you wonderful unique human.
California Natives featured: Baby Blue Eyes, Prairie Mallow / California Checker Bloom, and Coulter's Matilija Poppy
My third work in the Cali Pride series represents the Trans Flag as a field of tall California Wildflowers. It is no longer June, but the work to protect people’s rights continues on. Trans folks have had a long struggle for their rights, which has become more threatening since the Trump presidency. From difficulties adjusting an ID to reflect your gender, to anti-trans bathroom bills, to investigating families seeking gender-affirming care for their trans children, and now using the Roe v. Wade overturning to argue for banning transitioning medication… it is a hard time to be trans. So what can you do? First, VOTE IN NOVEMBER. MAKE NOISE. Educate yourself about how issues affect different groups, listen to people from those groups, and help others educate themselves too. This kind of harm CANNOT continue.
To my Trans siblings, you deserve the world. I hope this artwork conveys the deep respect I have for you and your truth. I’ll keep fighting for you.
Oh, and if this was not already obvious. Staff start banning TERFs challenge. Seriously, show up for your community you claim to care about.
#not just in june#art#illustration#lgbtq#lgbtqia#ace pride flag#wildflowers#botanical art#landscape art#nature art#pride art#wildflower art#california wildflowers#california pride#cali pride#trans pride#pride over shame#marker#pen
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#california lilacs#ceanothus#apricot globe mallow#sphaeralcea ambigua ambigua#california native plants#balboa park#san diego
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Cornish Mallow ~ Malva multiflora ~ Cornish Mallow ~ Lavatère de Crête ~ Dolores Park ~ San Francisco, California
#Mallow #MallowBlossom #CornishMallow #Malva #Malvamultiflora #CornishMallow #Lavatère #LavatèreDeCrête #DoloresPark #SanFrancisco #SF #SFO #California #CA #Flowers #Blossoms #Blooms #WildFlowers #floweringvines #flowersofinstagram #macrophotography #macros #blooms ~ https://www.flickr.com/photos/rachidh/albums
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The 10 Best Baby Skincare Products of 2024
Introduction: Welcoming a new addition to the family brings immeasurable joy, but it also comes with the responsibility of caring for your precious little one's delicate skin. As 2024 unfolds, the baby skincare market continues to evolve, offering a plethora of options designed to keep your baby's skin soft, healthy, and happy. In this blog post, we'll explore the 10 best baby skincare products of 2024, ensuring you have the information you need to make the best choices for your little bundle of joy.
CuddlyCare Baby Shampoo and Body Wash: This gentle, tear-free formula is enriched with natural ingredients, providing a soothing bath time experience for your baby. The hypoallergenic and dermatologist-tested product ensures your baby's skin stays soft and moisturized.
Burt's Bees Baby Bee Diaper Ointment: Protect your baby's delicate skin with this pediatrician-tested ointment. Formulated with nourishing ingredients like shea butter and lavender oil, it creates a natural barrier against diaper rash, leaving your baby's skin smooth and irritation-free.
Mustela Hydra Bebe Body Lotion: Mustela's lightweight, non-greasy lotion is perfect for everyday use. Enriched with jojoba oil and shea butter, it provides long-lasting hydration and helps maintain the skin's natural barrier.
Babyganics SPF 50+ Sunscreen: Shield your little one from harmful UV rays with this fragrance-free and mineral-based sunscreen. The water-resistant formula ensures protection during outdoor adventures, and its gentle composition is suitable for even the most sensitive skin.
Aquaphor Baby Healing Ointment: A staple in many households, Aquaphor's ointment is a multipurpose wonder. It effectively soothes dry skin, chapped cheeks, and diaper rash. Its hypoallergenic and fragrance-free formula makes it a go-to choice for parents.
Earth Mama Organics Baby Face Nose & Cheek Balm: Combat dry, chapped skin during colder months with this organic balm. Gentle enough for daily use, it's packed with organic calendula and cocoa butter to soothe and moisturize your baby's delicate facial skin.
Johnson's CottonTouch Newborn Face and Body Lotion: Specifically designed for newborns, this lightweight lotion provides moisture that lasts for 24 hours. Its ultra-gentle formula, free from parabens and phthalates, is suitable for even the most sensitive skin.
California Baby Calendula Cream: This plant-based cream harnesses the power of calendula to soothe and moisturize your baby's skin. Perfect for eczema-prone skin, it's free from common allergens, making it a safe choice for all skin types.
CeraVe Baby Wash & Shampoo: Developed with dermatologists, CeraVe's baby wash and shampoo is enriched with essential ceramides to maintain the skin's natural barrier. The tear-free formula is fragrance-free and leaves your baby's skin feeling clean and soft.
Weleda White Mallow Diaper Rash Cream: Formulated with organic white mallow extract, this diaper rash cream provides gentle yet effective protection for your baby's bottom. It's fragrance-free and suitable for sensitive skin, offering relief from discomfort associated with diaper rash.
Conclusion: As a parent, choosing the right skincare products for your baby is a crucial decision. The best baby skincare products of 2024 combine safety, effectiveness, and nourishing ingredients to keep your little one's skin happy and healthy. Always consult with your pediatrician before introducing new products, and enjoy the bonding moments that come with caring for your baby's delicate skin.
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#1934 - Malva multiflora - Cretan Mallow
AKA Lavatera cretica, Lesser Tree Mallow, Egyptian Mallow, Cornish Mallow and Cheeseweed. Not actually one of @purrdence’s sightings from New Zealand, but if I’m already covering Malva sylvestris I might as well do this one too. Photo by me at Secret Harbour, Perth.
It is native to western Europe, North Africa, and the Mediterranean Basin, and naturalized in parts of Australia, South Africa, and California, and elsewhere with a Mediterranean climate.
The leaves of this mallow track the sun and turn to anticipate the sunrise, but I don't know if other Malvas do the same.
The mallows have been used as food and medicine for thousands of years - leaves may be boiled, fried or eaten raw when young in salads, or used in soups, having a mild but pleasant flavour. Mallow leaves can be used as a tea substitute, the cheese-wheel-shaped seeds have a nutty taste, and the plants provide a mucilage that can used to soothe sore throats and a variety of other ills. The third century BC physician Diphilus of Siphnus wrote "[mallow] juice lubricates the windpipe, nourishes, and is easily digested." The Augustinian poet Horace mentions it in reference to his own diet - "Me pascunt olivae, / me cichorea levesque malvae" ("As for me, olives, endives, and mallows provide sustenance"). There’s also at least one ancient epigram stating Malva was planted on graves, in the belief that the dead could feed on such perfect plants.
They can also be used for a range of yellow to green dyes.
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