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This smoothie was phenomenal! Excellent flavor and very nice creamy texture. My mom invented this smoothie.

Ingredients:
• 1 cup of frozen black/purple grapes (frozen in our freezer; harvested from our garden, this year)
• 4 ripe bananas with black spots (frozen in our freezer; purchased from the grocery store)
• Karoun whole milk plain yogurt (fill up the rest of the blender with it; I think our blender holds 7 cups)

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Macaroni and cheese is really good with artificial bacon bits added!

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So, I've decided to begin the process of trying to make homemade egg-free mayonnaise. I read that you need twice as much oil as milk. So, I put ¼ cup of evaporated milk and ½ cup of avocado oil in a blender and blended for a good while. No emulsification. I looked up natural emulsifiers and discovered mustard and honey among them. So, I dumped some ground mustard in it, some salt, and some distilled white vinegar. Viola. It looks and smells like thick mayonnaise! The texture is nice. However, it tastes like wasabi. I think I used  way too much mustard! 😄 On the bright side, I can figure out how to make some nice wasabi and horseradish type sauces without store-bought mayonnaise, now!

Time to make some tuna sandwiches with this stuff.



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https://phys.org/news/2020-11-duckbill-dinosaur-fossil-africa-hints.html

What if dinosaurs primarily lived in the ocean? Has anyone done any deep sea archeology, lately? The article doesn't speculate about that.

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https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/11/201102142242.htm

This sounds pretty good to know about, if it's true.

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https://www.bbc.com/future/bespoke/follow-the-food/the-spray-that-turns-deserts-into-farmland.html

This tells about how clay nanoparticles can be used to make sandy desert areas perfectly farmable with traditional practices for about five years. It mentions how such a practice might become more economical than buying new already farmable land in the future.

It's also cool what they said about the resulting produce and the pandemic at the end of the article.

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I've been thinking for a long time now that powdered food is extremely useful. Here are some of my reasons:

• They take up very little space for how much nutrition, flavor, or usefulness they offer.
• They last a long time (without refrigeration, canning, or freezing).
• They require less chewing than before they were powdered.
• They're easy to mix into dishes minimal preparation (including smoothies)
• If you powder a lot of stuff, you have a lot of flavors to work with at a moment's notice, without having to go to the grocery store every other day/week/month to resupply (which is nice in the case of a pandemic, for instance).
• Powdered stuff can taste very good.
• You can season stuff with it (use it as a spice, herb, or a flavoring).
• You can powder all sorts of stuff (not just the things you see for sale in powdered form).

Anyway, you can powder food at home. All you need is a food dehydrator (or an oven), a blender (or some kind of grinder), jars, lids, and storage space. Some things you might normally discard can be quite valuable powdered (such as citrus peels; you can use the peel powder for desserts and stuff, even when you don't have a citrus fruit on hand).

I encourage society to embrace powdered food (and making it yourself). Doing so would reduce waste, improve food security, assist in social distancing, make shipping/storage easier, increase the flavors chef's have to work with, and so on and so forth.

I really want to make some powdered culinary mushrooms the next chance I get. That would be so awesome to have on hand.

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https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/10/201029115836.htm

I have my doubts that a sweet orange is a direct parent of grapefruit. Pomelos are not as bitter as grapefruit (they taste like tropical fruit punch, basically). Neither are oranges. Why would they combine into something more bitter than either parent?

I could believe that grapefruit and pomelo are closely related, however, but I think the other parent is probably something bitter, and likely not an orange fruit, either.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/10/201029115836.htm

Apparently, at least some commercial cypress mulch has been shown that it is not 100% cypress, if there is any cypress in it at all.

I'm dehydrating a few bags of small limes (cut into eight slices each; skins, seeds, and all), and some tomatoes, currently. I think they're key limes, but I could be wrong. I plan to see if I can powder them. I wanted to dehydrate the peels separately, but they're very difficult to separate from the fruit.