solar crockpot: red beans (no-soak)

I’ve been doing my dry beans in the pressure cooker to save fuel (30mins @ 10lbs), but cooking with excess solar uses no fuel at all. It turned out so good I’ll just stick with it. Some salt pork or bacon scraps in there would be nice… My mental arithmetic suggests we are trading time

article: housing vehicle

from this article: “Some people may look at it as a recreational vehicle, but for us, it’s housing,” Batcher says. “We call it our HV.” She’s sharing the “HV” with one of her 25-year-old twin sons and says operating the vehicle has had a learning curve… Operating the RV has been “complicated, but you get

thriving on minimal resources

[Note:  this entry is based on a CRVL post] I am still in a house but I have been living on very little for several years in order to pay off debt from a previous life.  🙂   Now I snowball that same debt payment amount into pre-tax accounts so I am still living on the same

pressure cookers for nomads

I can hear you already:  “Fieldmouse, you must be out of your mind!  Pressure cookers are big, heavy things that just take up space.” Hear me out. Pressure cookers for cooking Let’s start with the obvious thing first, cooking.  You have probably heard your grandmother, aunt, or uncle rave about how fast a pressure cookers