Street Safety- Use Common Sense

Street Safety- Use Common Sense
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Common sense street safety is not all that common among some.  I would hope that readers of this website would be different, however, even if you are different than most and have your street safety handled, the following tips may help you pass on common sense safety tactics to your loved ones:

  • Stay in well-lighted, busy areas. Avoid walking alone and avoid known trouble spots.
  • When you carry a purse, hold it close to your body rather than by the handles. Do not wrap purse straps around your wrist, because you can get hurt in a struggle.
  • Carry only what you need in a purse or wallet, not everything you have.
  • Avoid using shortcuts through dark alleys, fields, or vacant lots.
  • If you think you’re being followed, cross the street and change directions a few times. Go quickly to a well-lighted place with lots of people. Do not go home. You don’t want an attacker to know where you live
Review on Preserving Food without Freezing or Canning

Preserving Food without Freezing or Canning

Preserving Food without Freezing or Canning
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Typical books about preserving garden produce nearly always assume that modern “kitchen gardeners” will boil or freeze their vegetables and fruits.

Yet Preserving Food without Freezing or Canning goes back to the future—celebrating traditional but little-known French techniques for storing and preserving edibles in ways that maximize flavor and nutrition.

Translated into English, and with a new foreword by Deborah Madison, Preserving Food without Freezing or Canning deliberately ignores freezing and high-temperature canning in favor of methods that are superior because they are less costly and more energy-efficient.

As Eliot Coleman says in his foreword to the first edition, “Food preservation techniques can be divided into two categories: the modern scientific methods that remove the life from food, and the natural ‘poetic’ methods that maintain or enhance the life in food. The poetic techniques produce… foods that have been celebrated for centuries and are considered gourmet delights today.”

Preserving Food Without Freezing or Canning offers more than 250 easy and enjoyable recipes featuring locally grown and minimally refined ingredients. It is an essential guide for those who seek healthy food for a healthy world.

I can’t stress how much food production is important for preppers.  I don’t care how much you store, you will eventually run out.  Being able to produce and store food is vital.

How to Cut Pasta the Easy Way

 

Kitchen DIY: Easy Way to Cut Pasta
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When making homemade pasta you have several options in forming your noodles, but while there are many ways of doing it, I want you to know the easy way to cut pasta.

  • You can extrude it (like my play dough experiment for next week )
  • Run it through a dedicated pasta machineCut individual noodles
  • or as this article demonstrates an Easy Way to Cut Pasta, you can roll the dough and cut noodles very efficiently and quickly.Once you get your dough as thin as you desire, simply roll it into a tube, and using a sharp knife, slice it as thin as you want.

After cutting the dough spirals, simply unroll each spiral into a long noodle, and either dry or cook immediately.

This is a very simple way of cutting pasta noodles, and I hope it makes your life easier.

This used to be something I thought was the realm of the super skilled Italian mother – but after trying it I found that homemade pasta is extremely simple to make, as well as being pretty inexpensive.

Once I found an easy way to cut pasta I was all set to make it all of the time – but then I discovered gnocchi and then all my pasta making stopped.

How to Use a Survival Still Over a Campfire

 

Gear Review: Using Survival Still on a Campfire
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The other day we showed how to use shelf brackets to hold pots over a campfire, today we will use this technique to try to distill water over a campfire.

This is probably the most important test of the survival still, because if you ever have to actually rely on the still, you may not have any other cooking method other than the trusty campfire.

Once again, if you rub bar soap on the outside of the bottom pot BEFORE you put it on the fire, the soot will clean up much easier.

While a lot of people think the survival still is too expensive, I think it is a pretty neat product.

I find that using a survival still over a campfire is a pretty easy way to distill water.

(Edit) Now the Survival Still ships with a stainless steel water line.  If you have the old silicon one, contact them and they will ship you a new one free.  I got one in and it does work well, it is flared, so I find it picks up the water inside the still better, but being steel it is not flexible and I found it harder to fit on my stove with the pots I have – I had to use a bowl instead of dripping into the mason jar I normally use.

Regal Range Construction Visit

regal range at night
regal range at night

When I found that someone was building a new training range that happened to be on my daily commute route I had to check it out.  Lickily Regal Rage was pretty receptive to letting me visit during their construction.

Its pretty cool that someone decided that an old movie theatre would make a great gun range, and actually did it.  I have long felt that golf courses and movie theateres were both misappropriated gun ranges.

Regal range was build for training, they decided early on that firearm instruction would be their main focus and everything else would support that.  Of course they sell guns and ammo, and they have a great gunsmith, but they have one of the best firearm instructors in the area as their lead trainer.

They have a simunitions room, a private training range, a great classroom, as well as an indoor archery range (with stands), and a huge tactical range that you can shoot up to and including .50 bmg.

As a matter of fact, they have a full auto M2 .50 caliber machine gun that you can rent and shoot on their range until the cordite addiction is fulfilled.

Talking with their general manager was a pleasure, and I am excited to see if their plans pan out because if they accomplish all they plan then this will be a great addition to the firearms training community in the Middle TN area.