Day one of this blog and finding a category was not simple! The offerings were not even remotely close.....Local? nada. Only L category was....LOANS
Simple living? Food Politics? Sustainability? Urban anything???
Times are changing and categories are not what they used to.
SOMEBODY UPDATE THOSE CATEGORIES!!!
thank you,
A little while ago I was watching on the computer screen a house in a small town thousands of kilometers away where my best friend from school and her husband live. We had a lovely visit (videoconference) with lots of jokes and laughter. The optic cables that united us made the miracle possible. I have not seen them since they were children not even in Highschool. And to see them now as very mature adults....
Behind them the paintings done by my friend's father that were so long ago on the walls of her house. The house no longer exists. They don't even live in Buenos Aires anymore. They moved almost three decades ago to the small town in Patagonia that I was reaching.
There used to be a very old fig tree in the Buenos Aires house. My friend and I would sit under it in the summer eating green ripe figs sweet and moist and so flavourful....
Today I found a case of fresh olives. I had not idea how to use them but I thought it was a special find and bought it. I have the treasure and found a recipe on The New York Times I am going to try to make. Check it out:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/17/dining/172orex.html?_r=1&ref=dining
We are at the door of winter here.
Serious winter business in Canada which moulds our personality with its life and death level. More like freezing death level. Eating locally was possible before globalization through the labours of cold storage and canning and later on even freezing. Like the categories changing I am searching for new ways or old ways actually. I remember the old ways. How to get back there?
Where are the old skills?
We are getting together with friends after the frenzy of summer to reminisce and take stock. To share experiences. Our little summary pow wows.
Our community garden is growing. Winter work to plan and organise two other gardens.
The freezer has our garden zucchini and loads of local saskatoon berries that we picked at a farm not far from here. Also in the freezer the paste from crabapples left after juicing them to attempt to make hard cider. With the crabapple paste we made scones, doughnuts that we ate warm with icecream and with whole crabapples I made a cereal topping by boiling them in cherry juice and adding a cinnamon stick and canning them.
This was the biggest effort towards producing my own storage for the winter.
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