Some of my books came in the mail this week. I am enjoying reading Eating off the Grid; storing and cooking foods without electricity and the SAS surivival hand book.
The article makes some good points but as I read through it, I was thinking “duh” more often than I would like. Maybe I am just crabby today, but I started cooking on a grill in the cafe when I was just 6 years old, and used to help Granny make lots of stuff including Bread, Churned Butter, jellies etc.
I might mention that none of our stores have ever had a loaf of bread that cost $4.00. The most expensive are about $2.00 and the cheap white stuff is around 70 cents.
We started gardening in earnest in 2009 mainly to ensure the safety and nutrition of our food. Fresh produce that I grow year round are lettuce, spinach, carrots, tomatoes, peppers, garlic, onions and various herbs.
Appetite fatigue is kinda a lack of imagination issue to me. I prepare beans at least 14 different ways so that the flavors are different enough to avoid this by use of spices and herbs.
Also combining the beans with 2 other side dishes gives an entirely different experience that just eating beans every day or beans with the same sides all the time.
Anyhow I have always bought extra when there are sales, and especially load up on the stuff we really like. So a lot of this article was kinda self evident to me.
Yes, it is “lack of imagination” but many people can't improvise and have to have concrete recipe instructions or they end up with beans the same way forever.
I have long term storage beans from Walton Feed, good for 25 years. I set about getting every kind of seasoning I could to make those beans taste differently many ways and I had no recipe to go by - I just knew what to do. Then, thought of every kind of soup I could think of to put beans in and have the ingredients for those soups.
In past years, I was sort of a soup person, making up soups. When I made soup, my step-son always wanted me to call him so he could come get soup for his family.
I don't use water in soup as water has no taste. I use canned broth, chicken or beef or veggie according to the soup. If no cans of broth, use bouillon added to water.