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Simply..cooking from now on....

26/8/2017

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..I have decided, will be more of a pleasure and less of a chore.

The feeling of having a stock of home made dishes in the freezer is rather akin to having a good woodpile. Deeply satisfying.

I plan to have a smallish repertoire of easy, quick and healthy dishes, to keep a stock of good basic ingredients for a meal for any unexpected guests...I want to be a happier and more relaxed cook, a less grudging cook, a more organised cook, a more respectful and mindful cook, and I have accepted that if I want really good food (and I do) then I am going to have to make it myself.

And enjoy myself making it.


In desperation for some sunshine I have hung this painting 'Harvest' on the sitting room wall. it was inspired by the memory of a very hot and sunny day picnicking in a newly cut field..
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The actual harvest here this year has not been a sunny one, but a very wet one. I took this photograph in the rain. Poor farmer!
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7 Comments
Mary
26/8/2017 02:59:50 pm

Wonderful idea. If nature won't provide the sunshine, you make your own. Such wonderful colours and depth. Your plan for cooking looks good, too.

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Freda
27/8/2017 01:32:00 pm

It does lift my spirits to look at it! (Still raining every day with glimmers of sunshine now and then.)

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julia
26/8/2017 03:52:23 pm

excellent plans, freda! and i notice that your farmer is harvesting giant marshmallows..i'm thinking marshmallow roasts when the rain stops...:-)

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Freda
27/8/2017 01:33:05 pm

Wettest summer for 80 years they say! Marshmallows - good idea.

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cath
27/8/2017 08:05:23 am

So many valuable insights, Freda. They didn't come all by themselves, nor must have been all easy to get to, but what a rewarding week this is. Somehow you have turned the rain into
inner sunshine. Harvest indeed.

Side note again:
Not only do I like Spark Joy, I have ordered a copy for myself. Mostly because in between the practical suggestions there is
the underlying idea she works from. Spark Joy is getting body for me.

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Freda
27/8/2017 01:35:20 pm

A worthwhile exercise for me Cath. I love 'inner sunshine' and it's always been the underlying ideas of Marie Kondo's that have made it of lasting interest for me too.

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Lotta link
28/8/2017 12:04:43 am

I do agree about the woodpile feeling. The squirrels in my garden are filling their freezer for the winter too! Lovely colours in 'Harvest' Freda.

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