The ever so dreaded fall/winter ..
It is pretty clear that the fall has arrived with all of its colors and .. quite nasty weather. It has been raining for days now, with some short pauses. How I would have loved to get this rain sometime this summer while my veggies needed it. Anyways .. nearly none of my veggies survived the summer, didnt seem to matter what I did or tried to do. I guess it has no purpose to be mad about that now, I did what I could. Never the less .. my potatoes did survive, and they are pretty good! I have collected various recipes for potato this and that, and am experimenting, and having fun doing that of course.
It is true, as many have asked me lately, that most of us are dreading for the winter. The fall is already here so no sense in dreading that .. but it does bring worry. Nothing seems to be getting better, most things seem to only get worse. Of course some small steps have been taken by the government in the direction of helping, but not really doing much at all. What I do hear all the time is worry about food prices and fuel prices. The food cart in general has gone up quite a ways, which is nothing new, it just keeps on climbing up. Some new products have been developed as "cheap" products, unfortunately those products dont come in much use for people like me.
I have learn quite a few things during this summer, while I didnt even have the chance of writing here. Things like where to save money, how to hold on to every króna you have for as long as you can and make the most of it. And I guess that is what i´d like to write about for now .. i´m tired of thinking about the Icesave contract and the EU application and whatnot .. this has just gone on for way too long, and is just as weighing as it was in the beginning.
But back to what I have been learning.
Now as you all know the fall has come around now, so what is usable for foods that are growing out there in the nature are berries for one. I did try to raise strawberries, but they all got stolen just as they were getting deliciously red, just to make that day. But what does grow wild here are for instance blueberries, northern crowberries and some people have rasberry trees. Just so you know, I do not have rasberry trees, unfortunately because rasberry jam is probably one of my favorite things in this world. Blueberries do grow in quite some amount here, just here and there everywhere and nowhere. You have to look for them and it does take some time picking them. But its worth the while. One can use them for baking, blueberry sauce ? Blueberry jam .. and god know what. Northern crawberries are not "good" in my opinion, perhaps I havent learnt to appreciate them just yet, but i´ve never been fond of berries in general. The blueberries that grow out here are not very large, not like the ones you guys might know. I guess the berries I know might be as big as the width of a pen. I think its a good idea to try to get as many as one possibly can, because one can freeze them and store for a while.
The same is about the northern crowberries, they can be stored frozen for quite some while. I might have to try to store some and see what I can use them for.
Unfortunately Iceland does not have any range of foods that are usable for eating. There are quite a number of mushroom breeds around, but as for now I have no idea which are edible and which are not .. So i´m just not going that route right now, but will look into that for next year.
I have also found out that home made breads with various ingredients can make wonders, and does save quite a bit. I´ve been learning about what foods have what vitamins and what has more nutritional value than other, and how to combine and make the most of it. Since i´m not even sure where this will end .. I´d prefer being able to make much out of near nothing.
But .. Since i´m getting distracted right now i´ll let this be enough for this evening so I can finish what has to be done for the night and try to have good night sleep.
Hope you all are well, and sorry for the cut-short post. I´d rather do it like this and post what I am thinking, than sit and think about the post for hours, forget it .. or write something like a novelist.
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