Because i have family members who are Japanese, i sometimes find myself with delicious Japanese food. For Christmas i got this multipack of miso soups containing my all time favorite favorite packet soup, fried eggplant miso soup! It is amazing and the best part about it is that the flavor lingers and you can remember …
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Christmas in the Country
Move to the country. You’ll find people gift each other food much more often than trinkets during the holiday season. There are two reasons for that. The gift giver is strapped for cash and the gift receiver is strapped for cash. When you live paycheck to paycheck and theres always some new expense or repair …
Red Barn Meals
Because the Kerr County Produce Company hosts their shopping day for the community in a big red warehouse on wednesdays everyone has always referred to the place and event as “red barn”. These are some examples of meals made from the produce i bought from red barn.
Life Without a Refrigerator
Eating has grown cumbersome. It is a process i no longer enjoy and quite dread. It’s more of a chore than a reprieve these days. Anytime something is cooked it must be either perfectly portioned or babysat in order to prevent bacterial growth. A baked potato takes me 1.5 hours to cook. I’ve been eating …
Bliss
The Chickens are Introduced to New Foods
Why i love Japan
3 hours from here sits a little store that imports packaged foods from Japan. Now i have spent most of my life eating fruits and vegetables from half way around the world. If you want to gain my heart just show up with a jack fruit or a lotus root in hand and i will …
A Trip to the Asian Market
I had to drive 3 hours to get to the dentist. It was time to go to the big city. I decided that while i was there i would do something i hadn’t done in years, visit my old favorite asian market. Family members convinced me i ought to try the new markets they had …
Stress
This semester i let everything on the homestead go. I had no choice. The interior of the tiny house is covered in dirt. The clothes and sheets are as well. The spiders have webbed up everything. The paint i bought to redo the house trim that’s exposed to the elements and had the old paint …
Misfits Market
Well, at some point the food delivery service i was using became too expensive for me to afford. They offered no explanation as to why the prices had gone up and when i inquired, they had no comment as to the reason but suggested i check out their low income options, which upon investigation were …