On sunday I got us a ham hock. This was used to make a rather scrummy cabbage soup. There was still some left-over so with a bit of bolstering we had cabbage soup for tea on Monday. Here's a handy hint so all you chefs out there - if you find the quantity of your cabbage soup is lacking, simply add.......more cabbage. Works a treat.
But - as we were about to sit for said bolstered cabbage soup a neighbour popped round to give us a dozen surplus eggs. Naturally we all wanted eggs for tea - so we each had a couple of boiled eggs as a starter. This meant that less soup was consumed than was expected.
I had cabbage soup for lunch on Tuesday.
Cabbage soup starts to ferment after a couple of days. In more ways than one.
Tonight we're having potato egg and cheese bake with cabbage. I'm not feeling too well today and I'm wondering if its cabbage poisoning. That's the danger, dear readers, of buying a cabbage for 2 quid and then finding them for 50p each. The bargain was irresistible.
There's a guy taking photographs of everything he eats http://everythingiate2008.blogspot.com/
Go on follow the link....
What an amazing diet. He claims it's partly about reverence for food - but I promise you, Michael Pollan, you aint got half the reverence for your food as I do looking at those pictures.
Fairtrade often features in his piccies so maybe he's a right-on guy and it would be really cooooool to swap homes for a couple of weeks with a gen-u-ine crofter - God I could eat some of the meals he gets just now.
But just now I've got to check on the cabbage.
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thanks for the comments! Trying to be fair trade, but it's not easy, as you know... But pray tell, what's a crofter? Is that a Scottish thing?
Btw, just to set the record straight - I'm not Michael Pollan, nor trying to be, I just used one of his quotes in my header...
Thanks Petra (or should that be Pedi!?!?),
Sorry to mis-name you but I see it now.
Crofting? - ah now a full answer would send us wending down the roads of a tormented Scottish social history but in short crofters are smallholders, so a croft is a (very) small farm.
A longer answer is that in about 18th century landowners decided that having lots of tenants on their land wasn't bringing in enough money - so the tenant farmers were replaced (often brutally) by sheep. The displaced families were allocated crofts - small pieces on land, usually on coastal margins. Typically crofts have very poor soils and are too small to feed a family - this was the landowners way of ensuring they still had labour to work the estate when it was needed.
It was a bitter episode. Most of the crofters round about here are direct descendants from those times and I swear, many of them can still smell the smoke from their burning villages as they were evicted from the land their families had farmed for centuries.
You seem to call an apple a fuji. What's the origin of that?
Thanks for the comment.
rough bit of history there, makes your blood boil. Don't know much about Scottish history myself, so pardon my ignorance...
So how are these people surviving today? And how do you plan to survive? Can you grow some organic product to sell? Or is yours going to be a chicken farm?
Fuji is just a kind of apple, like Golden Delicious or Gala or what have you. They're my favorite. I assume they originally came from Japan but thankfully now they are grown locally here on the West Coast/California. There's tons of fresh and organic (if awfully expensive)produce around, but still - you'd HATE swapping house with us - living in LA, horrible carbon footprint, traffic congestion on 14-lane highways, smog, skyscrapers, tax money going to support some greedy war - but ah, true, it wouldn't be your tax money ...
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