SO EASY. And TASTY. Unlike the oat milk I've made (which tastes like spiced watery oatmeal) this actually has a nice milky texture.
To make:
2 cups filtered water
1/2 cup hemp seeds
1/4 tsp vanilla
3 taps cinnamon
squeeze of honey
Blend for a good long while (~1 min). Taste. Strain through a fine meshed sieve twice and store in an air tight container in the 'fridge.
Wednesday, January 8, 2014
Sunday, December 8, 2013
Oat Milk
It's cheap, it's easy, it's oak milk!
1/4 cup steel cut oats
1 cups water
Boil on stove until it's nice and gluey, well past the point where most people would stop and eat it (~20 min). Make sure it doesn't burn.
Put in blender. Add 3-4 cups filtered water.
Blend, blend, blend. You want the oats to be tiny- like cream of wheat. I add a bit of honey at this stage and some cinnammon if I'm feeling spunky (so always).
Strain through a fine mesh sieve, put left over oats in a bowl to eat later! (or throw out, but I love eating them!)
Strain again. And maybe a third time if you have the time- you'll get less sediment.
Pour into an air tight container (I use a big mason jar) and store in the fridge. Shake it up before each use and enjoy!
Cost break down:
- A few cents in oats = 4 cups of oat milk
- 4 cups store bought = >$3
1/4 cup steel cut oats
1 cups water
Boil on stove until it's nice and gluey, well past the point where most people would stop and eat it (~20 min). Make sure it doesn't burn.
Put in blender. Add 3-4 cups filtered water.
Blend, blend, blend. You want the oats to be tiny- like cream of wheat. I add a bit of honey at this stage and some cinnammon if I'm feeling spunky (so always).
Strain through a fine mesh sieve, put left over oats in a bowl to eat later! (or throw out, but I love eating them!)
Strain again. And maybe a third time if you have the time- you'll get less sediment.
Pour into an air tight container (I use a big mason jar) and store in the fridge. Shake it up before each use and enjoy!
Cost break down:
- A few cents in oats = 4 cups of oat milk
- 4 cups store bought = >$3
Wednesday, December 4, 2013
A Homemade Wardrobe
What if I were to make my own clothes for a year?
Pause.
Think about it.
Isn't the idea sort of magical?
My mom just gave me the extravagant gift of a Brother serger for my birthday in November. With the end of another crazy semester I haven't even had time to take it out of the box, much less learn how to use it. But just think! I could feasibly make ANY clothing item...
So maybe the idea's a little nuts, a little extreme. But that's what makes it shinny and full of promise.
Pause.
Think about it.
Isn't the idea sort of magical?
My mom just gave me the extravagant gift of a Brother serger for my birthday in November. With the end of another crazy semester I haven't even had time to take it out of the box, much less learn how to use it. But just think! I could feasibly make ANY clothing item...
So maybe the idea's a little nuts, a little extreme. But that's what makes it shinny and full of promise.
Saturday, November 30, 2013
Pea Coat Adentures
So WA and I spent a lovely Saturday inside working on my pea coat (pattern V8940). We made some adjustments to the pattern, but I wanted to show off the progress we made:
Sadly the lining is upside down, but I suppose it will end up just fine :)
Note the goggles below the coat as well; some of my previous projects include designing, printing (3D printers are too awesome), and painting my version of steampunk goggles. More on those (perhaps) in a later post.
Sadly the lining is upside down, but I suppose it will end up just fine :)
Note the goggles below the coat as well; some of my previous projects include designing, printing (3D printers are too awesome), and painting my version of steampunk goggles. More on those (perhaps) in a later post.
D-Hubbs waves hello
Hi there.
It's me, D-Hubbs. Thought I'd introduce myself on the blag, so here goes.
I'm also a graduate student in astronomy. Like W.A. (WickedAlchemist, my wife and homestead hacker extraordinaire), it ends up consuming much of my time, but I often have time for other projects. I focus more on the instrumentation side of things, which means I spend a lot of time in the lab with screwdrivers, tape, hammers, liquid nitrogen....occasionally I wrangle code as well, although W.A. is far better at it than I ever was.
I enjoy building and creating, which is why I decided to join W.A. in making certain articles of clothing. It's fun and (perhaps more importantly) distracting from the soul-chilling experience that much of grad school entails. I started with a vest, and learned how to make a welt pocket that you can be proud of. I decided on a (longer) pea coat for the current project because, well, coats are awesome, and I don't have one down here.
I am also learning how to run lathes and milling machines this semester, and hopefully I'll be able to take a crash course in how to operate CNC machines. Diversify your DYI skills, people. That's the key.
It's me, D-Hubbs. Thought I'd introduce myself on the blag, so here goes.
I'm also a graduate student in astronomy. Like W.A. (WickedAlchemist, my wife and homestead hacker extraordinaire), it ends up consuming much of my time, but I often have time for other projects. I focus more on the instrumentation side of things, which means I spend a lot of time in the lab with screwdrivers, tape, hammers, liquid nitrogen....occasionally I wrangle code as well, although W.A. is far better at it than I ever was.
I enjoy building and creating, which is why I decided to join W.A. in making certain articles of clothing. It's fun and (perhaps more importantly) distracting from the soul-chilling experience that much of grad school entails. I started with a vest, and learned how to make a welt pocket that you can be proud of. I decided on a (longer) pea coat for the current project because, well, coats are awesome, and I don't have one down here.
I am also learning how to run lathes and milling machines this semester, and hopefully I'll be able to take a crash course in how to operate CNC machines. Diversify your DYI skills, people. That's the key.
Vogue 8940 Part I: How to lengthen a pattern
My hubby got a hair up his ass and decided he wants to make a nice, long pea coat for when we're back home in Colorado over winter break (Plenty of time tight? We only leave in a little over 2 weeks! Eeeep!)
I figured he wasn't being serious, but then yesterday he says to me "I found a pattern, can we go to Joann's now? It's this one, Vogue 8940." I'm still struggling with the tension between DIY projects like this one and the commercialism that they often entail. If we had more time I'd've liked to draft the pattern, find fabric at the thrift store, etc etc. Part of me hates going to Joann's where I'll settle for some expensive fabric (ON SALE FROM $19.99/yrd! 40% off one item! BOGO!) and consume, consume, consume.
But we did do just that. Though instead of settling we found a beautiful grey 100% wool for the jacket and AWESOME Star Wars cotton for the lining. Nerdgasm!! And while the cost of the fabric and other notions was a bit high, it was still half of what a coat of this quality fabric and length would cost in the store.
D-hubbs is a complete novice and I know just enough to get myself in trouble so of course we start tweaking the pattern. Duh!
We measured from the waist line of the back center piece down the the hem line and it was only 20"- which barely reaches D-hubbs's mid thigh. Well that just wouldn't do so we decided to go balls-to-the-walls and add 6" to the coat. I'm sure we're making some huge mistake adding that much length but I couldn't think of a specific problem to stop us. So here's a tutorial on how to lengthen a pattern...
All the pieces that need lengthening will have a straight line across the pattern that says "Lengthen or shorten here" Self explanatory, right? So I cut each piece at the line -- no going back now!
Using scrap paper I attached one half of the pattern about 0.5" from the edge of the paper, placing the edge of the pattern on the edge of the paper. Then measuring 6" from the edge of the pattern (NOT THE EDGE OF THE PAPER mind you) I lined up the next pattern piece. The lines you follow to cut the pattern in half are completely straight, which makes lining them up again with the desired space in between a snap. Simply place the bottom pattern piece, with its edge on the edge of the paper, the desired distance from the top pattern piece and make sure the two pattern edges are exactly parallel.
And viola! Lengthened coat pattern!
High on our newfound power, we also added an inch to the sleeves. We're crazy risk takers, we are.
I figured he wasn't being serious, but then yesterday he says to me "I found a pattern, can we go to Joann's now? It's this one, Vogue 8940." I'm still struggling with the tension between DIY projects like this one and the commercialism that they often entail. If we had more time I'd've liked to draft the pattern, find fabric at the thrift store, etc etc. Part of me hates going to Joann's where I'll settle for some expensive fabric (ON SALE FROM $19.99/yrd! 40% off one item! BOGO!) and consume, consume, consume.
But we did do just that. Though instead of settling we found a beautiful grey 100% wool for the jacket and AWESOME Star Wars cotton for the lining. Nerdgasm!! And while the cost of the fabric and other notions was a bit high, it was still half of what a coat of this quality fabric and length would cost in the store.
D-hubbs is a complete novice and I know just enough to get myself in trouble so of course we start tweaking the pattern. Duh!
We measured from the waist line of the back center piece down the the hem line and it was only 20"- which barely reaches D-hubbs's mid thigh. Well that just wouldn't do so we decided to go balls-to-the-walls and add 6" to the coat. I'm sure we're making some huge mistake adding that much length but I couldn't think of a specific problem to stop us. So here's a tutorial on how to lengthen a pattern...
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| Upside-down original pattern piece. |
Using scrap paper I attached one half of the pattern about 0.5" from the edge of the paper, placing the edge of the pattern on the edge of the paper. Then measuring 6" from the edge of the pattern (NOT THE EDGE OF THE PAPER mind you) I lined up the next pattern piece. The lines you follow to cut the pattern in half are completely straight, which makes lining them up again with the desired space in between a snap. Simply place the bottom pattern piece, with its edge on the edge of the paper, the desired distance from the top pattern piece and make sure the two pattern edges are exactly parallel.
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| I've inserted 6" of white paper between the edges of the two pieces of pattern. |
And viola! Lengthened coat pattern!
High on our newfound power, we also added an inch to the sleeves. We're crazy risk takers, we are.
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| Newly lengthened pattern pieces being pinned to the lining! |
Sunday, September 15, 2013
Catch Up
I should have started keeping track of all my projects when I started them. But that's a level of foresight I just don't have. So instead of typing out some boring list of everything that's going on I'm just going to dive right in. Starting with this morning's completely homemade french toast.
I made butter yesterday in the food processor (it's amazing!) and saved the buttermilk from the process to use later. I got up, checked on my garden, made a raspberry latte, and decided I didn't want cereal. So I sliced up the last of the fresh bread from yesterday (what can I say, when I bake bread the loaves don't last long) and set a pan to heat on the stove. I whipped together eggs I bought from the farmers' market, the buttermilk, some vanilla and sugar and cinnamon and viola! homemade french toast! I meant to take a picture, but it didn't last...
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