I might have mentioned this is very difficult year financially. Not only for our family, but in general. Even my aunt, who's been retired about 20 years said such. And she's not in debt, she has a steady stream of pension every month and she's ablebodied and ableminded. She's not so much worried for her own sake, but for others. And so am I.
Funny thing I've noticed: when I'm skint (for any reason) I cook and bake. A lot. I just made a batch of chocolate chip cookies, a batch of Thrifty Lesley's red lentil nuggets and there's two huge tubs of rice pudding in the fridge, as well as big container of pre-cooked mushrooms for tomorrow. And on the stove there's a rather big pot full of boiled potatoes (hot, can't put them to the fridge yet) and half a frying pan of fried cabbage/zucchini (the other half is eaten already). And I'm planning on baking buns tomorrow (I don't usually bake bread/buns, but this last month has been really really expensive and I had some flour bags that really needed to be used (best before date last year...). Yesterday I made pickled cucumbers and zucchini fritters. On top of regular cooking. And yes, I put the soaking liquid of lentils aside for the buns, as well as the liquid from yesterday whe I grated zucchinis and drained it with salt.
It's like I'm trying to cook and bake everything before I run out of money/food/change to forage...
Rowans are overcompensating last year's complete lack of berries. I'm trying to find reciepes other than jellies and liquor. Maybe I just put them in the freezer and I'll figure out later what to do with them?
