what are y'all saving from the wild to deal with coming crisis?

[perchie.girl]

Uses for wood ash. Great read for sure!
I got interested in it because we have a wood stove and thought there must be something besides gardening I can use this for....

https://practicalselfreliance.com/wood-ash-uses/

I fully intend to try it as leavening this year. I read on a blog how to cook with it and she showed her comparison with biscuits.

Think outside the box folks. Just because you don't heat with wood like I do, doesn't mean you don't have fallen tree limbs in your yard or trimmings from pruning! Use that backyard fire pit as a resource!

Bone Broth also is a mostly wasted resource. Even a Wally World rotisserie chicken can produce a decent bone broth!

You don't have to live in the country like I do to use what nature gives us!

Wood ashes are a source for lye which is a proven preservative for food... Olives are an example.... But reconstituting Homony with Alkalai or lye then rinsed and hulled makes a nutritionally available food. Plain Corn has its issues.... But the native Americans knew how to deal with it.

Grits are made from Homony
as is corn tortillas and the corn used for tamales.

deb

 

[ocap]

Let us attempt to understand what we mean before we get our feelings hurt. In my 70 years language has changed.
examples: the Truth has become your truth
problem has become issue
learn has become evolve
immigrate has become migrate
gentleman in old England meant landowner
thinking has become feeling

if I have question about what you really mean I will ask.

 

[Curnow]

Really REALLY loving this thread!!

STONE SOUP anyone?

When I was a child around 10 inj Paradise Hills, New Mexico outside Albuuerque ( I am 50 now). somewhere my little best friend and I heard a version of the story "Stone Soup". Since we were allowed to build campfires in my back yard while we were riding our saw horse steads across the old west armed with rubber band guns, we made stone soup! It contained stones, grass, clover, and stolen veggies from mom's garden. We joyfully cooked and sipped on it...and we are both still around to tell the tale.

Fast forward to Caldwell, Idaho circa 2003....
We were invited to a friends house to help with fencing for a few pigs. It was a campfire meal and each was to bring something...ANYTHING, to add to the cast iron dutch oven in which the meal would be made. There was home produced eggs, store bought potatoes, side pork, left over salad mix and cabbage, frozen corn, fresh tomatoes, (some beer probably)....you name it, it went into that pot buried in the fire coals. Wonderful memories were made as well as an exceptional meal. One of the most tasteful meals I have ever eaten for sure. No cost. Little control. Just folks coming together with what they had at the moment regardless of financial means.

We have moved back to Missouri since then. But those friends are fondly remembered. Most were people of decent means that CHOSE to live a simpler life raising animals, hunting, spending time outdoors, and teaching future generations how it was done and still can be done.

I still cook like that occasionally ...it is worthy of a try. Gather your family or neighbors, make some memories and eat hardy!

 

[perchie.girl]

In Vegas we called it Hobo Stew.... LOL... Us kids were told to bring a can of something anything whe slung it in a bandana and hung it from a stick over our shoulders then we as a group marched to the local park. Where upon the leaders of our group opened the cans and put them in a big pot which was sitting on the barbeque.... They stirred and served it up....

OMG it was good...

again Proof that community is a solution....

deb

 

[ocap]

culture has changed, here is a youtube where the presenter is talking about culture changing from "Dignity" to "Victim" please don't skip ahead but if you must
culture is being discussed between minute 9 and minute 22, this is the kind of cultural shift that can cause the crisis we have been discussing. (for some reason this is starting well past the beginning)

 

[Curnow]

Let us attempt to understand what we mean before we get our feelings hurt. In my 70 years language has changed.
examples: the Truth has become your truth
problem has become issue
learn has become evolve
immigrate has become migrate
gentleman in old England meant landowner
thinking has become feeling

if I have question about what you really mean I will ask.

So sad, but true! I am hoping that if we can teach just 1 member of this thread to think outside this current constrained politically correct box we currently live in, and they in turn pass it on and expose their loved ones or children...then we have accomplished a good thing and evoked some change.

My applause to Ladyearth for starting the thread and giving us all insight on how we live.... Remembering times past...and hopefully changing at least a small step for the future!

 

[Maugwa]

Really REALLY loving this thread!!

STONE SOUP anyone?

When I was a child around 10 inj Paradise Hills, New Mexico outside Albuuerque ( I am 50 now). somewhere my little best friend and I heard a version of the story "Stone Soup". Since we were allowed to build campfires in my back yard while we were riding our saw horse steads across the old west armed with rubber band guns, we made stone soup! It contained stones, grass, clover, and stolen veggies from mom's garden. We joyfully cooked and sipped on it...and we are both still around to tell the tale.

IIRC, The version of stone soup that I heard about so many years ago was about one of Napoleon's defeated soldiers finding his way from Waterloo back to France. The army had fell apart and the soldiers were left to their own devices to get home, still wearing those uniforms. The peoples of the villages across Europe were in bad shape as far as food storage went, especially along the route Napoleon had taken to get there, and weren't to eager to share what little they had. One wise soldier carried a soup stone though. He'd put it in a pot of water and begin to cook it. Villagers would watch in disbelief as he'd taste it. "It's good," he'd say, "but sure would be better if I only had a carrot or two". Somebody would find a few, and this story continued ingredient after ingredient until he would remove the stone and put it away until he came to the next village, and he'd share his soup with all who were involved. Is this the soup stone story you heard too?

 

[Curnow]

IIRC, The version of stone soup that I heard about so many years ago was about one of Napoleon's defeated soldiers finding his way from Waterloo back to France. The army had fell apart and the soldiers were left to their own devices to get home, still wearing those uniforms. The peoples of the villages across Europe were in bad shape as far as food storage went, especially along the route Napoleon had taken to get there, and weren't to eager to share what little they had. One wise soldier carried a soup stone though. He'd put it in a pot of water and begin to cook it. Villagers would watch in disbelief as he'd taste it. "It's good," he'd say, "but sure would be better if I only had a carrot or two". Somebody would find a few, and this story continued ingredient after ingredient until he would remove the stone and put it away until he came to the next village, and he'd share his soup with all who were involved. Is this the soup stone story you heard too?

I don't remember the characters in the story, but yes that's it!!

 

[Maugwa]

I don't remember the characters in the story, but yes that's it!!

Ha ha sometimes something from decades ago pops right up for me, other times I look at my finger and wonder why there is a piece of string tied to it.

 

[perchie.girl]

as one of the older peeps... I have noticed the Paradigm shift... The technology evolution etc..... At one time My dad was working for Area 51 and EG%G doing test equipment for Atomic Testing... It was a given in our family that alien technology was being carefully disseminated.

But before that he was one of the crew of designers that worked on site for the ICBM silos.... All over New Mexico. And We lived in Roswell at the time. Nice town old time country feeling ....NEVER heard a thing about the crash.

But we always kept a freezer full, Cupbords full...

deb