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What a Simple Virus Like HPV Can Do

October 21, 2016 By Food Retro

When my doctor’s office called me back a couple weeks following a routine physical, I had a sick feeling of dread. “Irregular pap,” the doctor’s assistant said. Cervical cancer!? My mind panicked. But my mouth, fortunately, knew what to say. “What happens now?”

Filed Under: I Can't Make this Stuff Up, Science Gives Me A Hadron, Tech-Talk Stop, The Answer is 42 Tagged With: Health & Home, how-to, parenting, sponsored

Your Little Guide to Roots and Tubers

March 16, 2016 By Olga

“Excuse me, what’s that?”- said the lady behind me in the checkout queue in the supermarket. “Excuse me?” I replied, somewhat surprised. My cart didn’t contain anything that would have looked weird to anyone. Or so I thought. “That,”- said the lady, pointing at the beetroot I bought for salad. “Oh that. That’s a beetroot.”…

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Filed Under: Kitchen Chemistry, Weird Science Tagged With: how-to, what is this

Homemade Vanilla Extract Recipe

January 11, 2016 By Olga

Vanilla isn’t lame or boring. It’s amazing. And you can make extract yourself cheaply and easily. Here's how! | FoodRetro.com

I always get this weird feeling when I go to the liquor store. As I pass rows of bottles and more bottles, I keep my head down and think to myself: “I am an adult woman. Adults sometimes drink alcohol. I shouldn’t be ashamed. I can do this.”, but this internal monologue changes into: “who…

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Filed Under: Homemade Pantry, Kitchen Chemistry Tagged With: how-to, Kitchen Chemistry

6 Tips to Improve Your Food Photography… Cheaply!

November 21, 2014 By Food Retro

There’s tons and tons and tons of information on how to do food photography like a pro, but many of them require that you’re fully kitted out and experienced with a DSLR, tripod, and light kit; that you are not a beginner, understand the lingo, and know what the heck an f-stop is; that you have at…

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Filed Under: SLIDER, Tech-Talk Stop, The Answer is 42 Tagged With: food blogging, how-to, image editing, photography

Boost Search Traffic to Your Recipes with Rich Snippets

November 16, 2014 By Food Retro

If I’ve learned one thing during my 18 months of food blogging, it’s that even figuring out the list of things that you ought to know can be a trial… Especially when it’s written in tech-talk. I believe that Google’s Rich Snippets are something that you absolutely must include on the list of things to figure out,…

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Filed Under: SLIDER, Tech-Talk Stop, The Answer is 42 Tagged With: food blogging, Google, how-to, HTML, snippets

The Science of Whipped Cream and Butter

May 12, 2014 By Food Retro

Have you ever wondered about how cream turns into butter, or why whipped cream and butter are different? I was thinking about post ideas, when someone said “have you done butter yet?” No, I haven’t done butter. Butter is gradeschool Homesteading 101, and everybody’s got a post on how to make butter. “Yes,” says my friend….

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Filed Under: Frugal & Eco Things, Homemade Pantry, Kitchen Chemistry, Preserved foods, Sauce & Condiments, SLIDER, The Urban Homestead, Weird Science Tagged With: egg free, gluten free, Health & Home, how-to, kid friendly, Kitchen Chemistry, no refined sugar, nut free, peanut free, preserving, soy free, vegetarian

Smooth Hummus from Canned Chickpeas

May 2, 2014 By Food Retro

What do you do when you’ve a potluck request for your super-smooth like store-bought, (Jerusalem-style) hummus, and you somehow hallucinate you have another day to soak the dried chickpeas, forgetting that to make it you would have to be grinding chickpeas in your food processor at 7am? I had a can of chickpeas left over…

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Filed Under: Kitchen Chemistry, SLIDER, Tips & Tricks, Weird Science Tagged With: dairy free, egg free, gluten free, how-to, Kitchen Chemistry, low glycemic, no refined sugar, soy free, vegan, vegetarian

Polish Curd Cheese – Twaróg – Guest Author @TheEuropeanMama

March 17, 2014 By Food Retro

Twaróg - Polish Curd Cheese

As a Polish woman living abroad, I sometimes find myself craving Polish products. One of my very favourite products is Polish curd cheese, or twaróg (pronounced in Polish, “tvaroog”). Obviously, I could buy it in the Polish store near my house, and sometimes I do. But I’ve always wanted to try making it myself, and inspired by Anne,…

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Filed Under: Cheese, Homemade Pantry, Kitchen Chemistry, SLIDER Tagged With: cheese, how-to, Kitchen Chemistry, preserving, vegetarian

Homemade Wooden Self Watering Planters (A Comprehensive Guide)

February 28, 2014 By Food Retro

This is an amalgamation reposting of much of the information found on my site from last spring, and also part of the SIP 101 that I contributed to Homegrown.org. QUICK NAVIGATION Intro Important Notes Materials / Wood Cutting List Building Instructions Construction Photos Soilless Potting Mix Initial Fertilization and Starting Up Ongoing Feeding Pest control…

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Filed Under: Crafty Things, Greenish Thumb Things, The Urban Homestead Tagged With: how-to, Organic, pests, sub-irrigated planter, The Urban Homestead

How to Blanch Spinach

February 19, 2014 By Food Retro

Spinach can be frozen for storage. Because spinach is an early spring plant, a huge harvest can be laid in early and then pulled before the summer-loving plants like cucumbers are ready to sow. But, maybe you’re not a gardener. Maybe you’re just one of those people who have a hard time using a whole…

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Filed Under: Homemade Pantry, Kitchen Chemistry, Tips & Tricks Tagged With: Health & Home, how-to, preserving, The Urban Homestead

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