Depressed

I read a book called Kitchen Literacy , interesting.

A movie called Food fell into my world last night, depressing

I made it though the movie until the chicken farms. Then I had to stop. I understand the need to mass produce food. I understand there are alot of people to feed. Should a McDonalds Hamberuger with bun and fixings cooked packaged that comes from a resturant where 5 paid employees touch it before you cost less than a head of lettuce ?

The Eggs

Well today I went to get my eggs. Today I had to go to the coop and get them myself ... fresher then fresh I guess. I also picked up a fryer hen and ordered up 20 pounds of hamburger. So fresh eggs a chicken and grass fed beef. Trying to stay local  is working well today 

Vacation Bust or Boom .. well a bad day fishing ....

30 MPH winds. Lightning and storms. A cold front. all things that shut off fish and stall a vacation. We did bring home some fish but not nearly enough so off to the lake this weekend I guess.

Sunsets however .. were very nice

and I did .. well .. I did ride a Jet Ski

and Julie did get to play loon hunter

SAVED

The "Blossom Rot" is subsiding and the Black Krim cherry tomato's are OMG good.













I'm working from home today and low and behold Alyssa was looking for cucumbers .... So I showed her how I make them and she did it. Its a long long story but ladies and gentlemen this is a miricale

Almost done

it's coming out well

Vacation

Soon fishing and a short vacation. The best part you would think would be a few days off ... but it could be that my new Livewell cover for the boat is almost done ... some varnish some stain and just a bit more detailing and poof on it goes.  The plan will be to burn the waypoints in as we fish .. then 100 years from now it will be worth 10,000 dollars on Ebay.

Focus on the good focus on the good focus on the good

During the traffic reports and delays this was my view.

My tomato's turning red but rotting on the bottom ... I waited and waited... pppppphhbt .. what can I do ?

Breakfast

Breakfast for two Some crackers a few grapes ... caraway seeded cheese and some beet kvass.

Putting up some stock from yesterdays chicken dinner

 

Watering

 

...and my favorite cup ... only with Dunk'n Doughnuts coffee the only good coffee

Deal Day At The Store

Today ... Bonanza. my local store was buy one get one free on chicken thigh .. London broil ... bone in chops ... and sirloin tips ..I purchased 120 dollars worth of beef for 60 bucks

I packaged it all up and we are good for a couple weeks. A deep sigh of relief. Between this and the fish we catch we will be good for at least a month on protien. I wish I had more vegitables and had not wasted all that space on cabbage and rhubarb ..

I went to the local butcher for some chicken, pork fat and tallow -- no luck. He did give me a couple smoked beef bones for the dogs though ... man were they happy

Now if Jak would leave Addisons' Bone alone .. grrr

I have attempted the FRIED GREEN TOMATO

I have decided to scare the other tomato’s in to turning red by trying fried green tomatoes. They were pretty easy... And well... Tasty... I will make them again. I also think when I left for work today there was a red tomato so it may have worked.


 I also found a recipe for green tomato pie .. this is how I got it so we will have to play with it ..but I'll bet its good.

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Cabbage beans and cucumbers-- oh my

The garden is giving up the goods! Last night we had cabbage, brussel sprouts, beans, some peppers and couple FRIED green tomatoes along with some chicken thighs. The whole thing was about around 5 bucks for the chicken. With lots left over for lunch.

The night before we had a small celebration so I had purchased food. I went to famous Dave’s and for 60 bucks got enough sides and meat to feed everyone.

I asked the youngest if on Thursday he had a choice between Famous Dave’s or a repeat of the Garden dinner what he would choose. He said he didn’t like the famous Dave’s all that much. He said there was not much meat on the bones and it wasn’t very flavorful just covered up with sauce.

That’s what I’m finding too. The things I thought were so good either have no flavor or are so over flavored they just aren’t good. I don’t think I could convince people to eat fresh or local just by talking about it. Just like I don’t think I could convince them to drink Beet Kvass. I think if I feed it to them for a month … heck even a couple weeks the difference in health and tasted would be noticeable for them when they returned to their normal life.

It’s a tremendous deviation from what we have been use to. I guess 8 months ago I would have said it’s a lot more work I find that interesting. The payback from all of this deviation is worth it to me which I find REALLY interesting. Unplugging and working together with my wife on bread and all of the other mini projects we have to sustain ourselves and eat better lets us chat and laugh more. The two hours we spend watching a movie is spent in silence staring at a TV. The two hours we spend on a project is all talk and togetherness followed by a better way of life.

Is it just? Because as I watch the news it seems like the entire country is facing some kind of technology repulsion.