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Krispy kremes? Yum!
I wish I had recorded all of my dad’s stories about growing up in the depression/WW2 era. The whole family picked cotton during some points.
No! Get your fish fresh. Sure, it might cost about $7 a pound but worth it. Set oven for 350 degrees, pour some olive oil on the bottom of a baking dish and then toss in the fish. Top with a few spices and drizzle more olive oil on top. Then bake for exactly 21 minutes. Remove from oven and begin to eat.
Remember when the Hudson river used to be clean? That is a huge amount of water right there. Ever travel over the Tappan Zee or the George Washington bridge? You are driving at least a mile and a half just to get across the river. A lot of water and a lot of fish.
Fish and olive oil. Very good for you.
The sad looking fish on the sign is funny.
During the worst of it, my father’s family ate cucumbers, mustard sandwiches, and hot milk and rice gruel. My mother’s family was better off because they ate cracked eggs that they couldn’t sell.
Well, they figured out how to do stuff with nothing, and she continued the tradition so I got to learn about these dishes.
Several years back a lady at the office who worked with charitable groups in some of the bad spots in DC needed some recipes.
She asked me for some help ~ I think the Lord led her to me because I whipped up a couple of dozen.
One was for folks with one pot. One large potato. Water. Salt and maybe pepper. They could use cheap hamburger. You cut it all up. Cooked the potato. Crumbled in the hamburger.
The charitable group (a multi-denominational rescue operation for the poorest of the poor) got donors, they got the stuff, they had well over 100 children do just that dish.
I was humbled by the response and in awe of my grandmother who turned that into Sunday dinner every week.
I’m already planning for the coming season...
This year, I grew New Zealand spinach. Took a while for it to get started, but once it got going, it was pretty prolific. I harvested lots of spinach and lots of seeds...
I recently ordered and got golden purslane seeds. Also, a type of what’s called “purple spinach”. Will try to get them started as soon as it warms up a bit.
All three of these plants are fundamentally what would be called “weeds” by most folks, but edible weeds, and highly nutritious.
Of course I have tons of cabbage seeds, broccoli seeds, onions and dried peas from this year...
I know from my grandparents that they ate lard on bread rather than butter because lard was very cheap.
We all had hot dogs and baked beans every Saturday night.
Some of my family remember eating road kill because they didn’t want to waste the meat. Nearly every culture has food that to others seems disgusting. I imagine that most of that type of food, when traced back, comes from a period of near famine.
During the Obama Depression, you just take you EBT card to the store and load up on junk food,
Another reason to pimp my tagline!
http://www.bushcraftusa.com/forum/showthread.php?t=49018
but I digress
I'm on a primal/paleo/whatever diet and eat a ton of eggs and apples. I eat a lot of other stuff, too, but eggs and apples work great for me, are healthy, and are dirt cheap. I'm over 40, and carry absolutely zero extra weight.
My wife is Korean and often will make a simple soup like seaweed, kimchi, or radish and will have it with brown rice. Very healthy and super inexpensive.
Clara sure uses a lot of cooking oil. Was it not rationed during the depression? I know sugar and some other things was.
stir-frying potatoes and hot dogs we still do to this day because its cheap;
Mrs. LaybackLenny looks at me like I'm from another planet. LOL!
Stone Soup
I was trimming up some vegetables for dinner one night as my grandson watched. I pointed out to him that everything I was putting in the mulch container was edible.