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dirtflamingo.bsky.social
Former #garden educator and big fan of #cooking #insects #quilting and #vegetablegardening.
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The chives are blooming, so it's time for chive blossom butter! #cooking #gardening #flowers #cookingsky

Trying a new glaze recipe: bourbon maple syrup. Turns out, you can actually light a glaze on fire while boiling to reduce it. 😭 #cookingsky #newrecipes #howImetthefirefighters

I need everyone to stop and admire this Louisvillian's extravagant commitment to tulips.

I finished the Jamaican Stars quilt top! #quiltsky

Thank you Senator Booker! #booker.senate.gov

G** D*MM IT I don't have enough hobbies to self soothe through all this crap!!

Further proof the conservative right doesn't care about kids after they're born: RFK Jr was confirmed as HHS director. Keep the guns, sacrifice the kids No more free meals at schools No more vaccines; kids die from disease Force pregnancy on kids from rape or incest #Bluesky #ourkidsarenext

Scored two dozen eggs at the store today and immediately went into "protect the precious" mode. One of us wheeled the cart around obstacles, the other acted as lookout like an old-time stagecoach shotgun rider. Eggs got the princess treatment in the car too. #eggs #cooking #baking #modernproblems

Happy Black History Month! America may be facing a SUPER villain, but we are the heroes of our own story.   With resilience, grace, and unapologetic power, we rise. No villain can dim our light—our magic is unstoppable. My story is called Unleashing Black Girl Magic: The Superpower Within!

I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world. Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO

Making a playlist for my resistance. What songs do you have on yours, to get you fired up? #bluesky

First attempt at marbled rye. Tasty, but the swirl is off. It's more of a flourish. #baking #cooking #breadbaking #comfortingthingstodowhiletheUSAfails

Munch's 'The Scream' reimagined in a focaccia by Rebecca (via @ stephennold1) #WomensArt #Sunday

Like a turtle in its shell, I'm ready for the #polarvortex. I've got rye, wheat, and white flour for bread baking, soups in the freezer, a sewing project to keep me busy, and movies to watch.

@somanyquestions.bsky.social I see your disappointing 1976 BH&G cookbook and raise you: behold, my 1950 Betty Crocker recipe for squirrels. Load it up with bacon, people! Betty was(is) badass. #cooking #bada**cooks

Natalie Rak, aka Rak, Poland based street artist #WomensArt #Monday

Do me a kindness! Share this if you love and support your local library & librarians (and remember: that includes your school library & school librarian) 😊📚 Thank you libraries & library workers… for everything ✨💚

A horrible lesson wildfire taught us in Colorado is that home values increased well beyond the insured amount. When neighborhoods were devastated by fire, people suffered a second crippling blow by being told insurance won't cover the cost of rebuilding. Not even close.

Baking my way into 2025: Loaded Baked Potato bread, Bolillo rolls, and bagels. Because the scent of baking bread is comforting, and that's what I need. Next up: buttermilk hamburger buns. I think 2025 is gonna be a heavy gluten year. #baking #cooking #breadislife #breadbaking

Brains are funny. I can remember every word to a song I haven't heard in 20 years but I've got no clue what my email password is.

The first posy in a thimble I made, to lift my mood during the pandemic. The flowers are all real. When humans look at plants (even on a screen as here) we recover from stress 60% more quickly & the relaxation response is triggered in our brains. Zoom in if you're strung out🌿

I didn’t know it came in medical grade!

After considerable thought and reflection, my New Year's resolution is to toss anything aggravating across the room with drama and panache. Jazz hands, everyone! #Bluesky

One thing the holidays have taught me, is that there is never enough peanut brittle. #Bluesky

Honestly, the horn section of the Carol of the Bells isn't supposed to be delivered by cars in traffic. #Bluesky

Okay but hear me out: A moonlight picnic at Stonehenge.

We have entered the season of no meal rules. Dessert is breakfast. Dinner is lunch. A snack is an entire honey-mustard ham

Happy Solstice everyone The Ursid Meteor Shower peaks tonight and tomorrow night. These meteors come from debris left by Commet8P/Tuttle. Not as active as the Perseids at just five to ten per hour but, still makes for a nice evening, lights out, in a warm dark hot tub. tech.news.am/eng/news/512...

Something I learned this week. You should never add cold stock to your roux when you make gravy. Heat it up first. It will combine more easily and allow for a finished smoother texture.

Anyone singing "it's the most wonderful time of the year" is CLEARLY not the one doing all the gift wrapping. #Bluesky

True story.

#TerritorialSeed has announced its new cultivars for 2025. They have a gorgeous celosia named Dracula. Long story short, I'm planning for Halloween. territorialseed.com/collections/.... 🌱 #gardening #gardenflowers #flowers

Me: I don't understand why I keep gaining weight this holiday season! Also me, packing up cookies for gifts: (eating cookie) "one for you" (chomp chomp), "and one for me." (nibble, crunch) "one for you," (mm! Snicker doodles!) "and one for me." #Bluesky #baking #cookies #holidays

Took a DNA test and apparently I'm 46% pastry.

I have fallen on the sword of eating the gnarly messed-up cookies from each batch, and it is delicious. #Bluesky #baking #cookies #holidays

A cookie baker knows how to glance at the pantry to see if you have all of the ingredients ahead of time. A seasoned baker knows you'll have to run to the store midway because you never have quite enough of one thing. #Bluesky #baking #cookies #Holidays

It's a big cookie baking day. I'm gonna need my "I mean business" apron. #bluesky #baking #cookies #holidays

Went to Trader Joe's to get a bag of Murasaki sweet potatoes (they're amazing). Then @mtngardener1.bsky.social suggested getting baked lemon ricotta cheese. Suddenly I lost my mind and ended up purchasing brie, dumplings, flatbreads, fried rice, cookies, crackers. I went in for 1 thing. #bluesky