crazy. thanksgiving. and canning.

[brightbluegirl]

My mother just emailed me to tell me that fruits and vegetables don't have any fibre, they just "give the bowels a rest". What a WIERD. CRAZY. WOMAN she is turning out to be. I of course emailed her back with references to tell her she's got it wrong. I do not take well to condescending corrections of me at any time, but even more so when the condescending correction is WRONG.

But in good news, I went for a walk for lunch, and I found a) a cookbook store that is 2 doors from my work!!!! and b) a natural food store about a 5 minute walk away, that I wandered around in and highly approve of. It's big and bright and clean. Woohoo!!! and c) a Christmas present for a friend (Which I haven't bought yet, but it's not going anywhere)

This thanksgiving I'm going to be on my own (Andrew will be away) but I'm ok with that. We're talking about doing a thanksgiving dinner on my birthday instead (what better reason to give thanks than the fact that I was born? :P). I admit that some of my favorite comfort foods are thanksgiving foods, and actually quite traditional. Turkey with sage stuffing (I always make so much extra that there's another casserole dish full of it as well), mounds of mashed potatos, mashed turnip with just a little bit of brown sugar (I LOVE MASHED TURNIP), gravy, and the omnipresent cooked carrots and cooked green beans. When I was living at home we also had pickled beets to add to the plate, but I don't pickle. Yet.

And for dessert, pumpkin pie and wacky cake (another of my favorites from when I grew up - it's a rich luscious cinnamon-chocolate cake with a gooey fudge icing). And vanilla ice cream to go on the cake, and whipped cream (the real deal) on the pumpkin pie.

I'm just SO never going to be a vegan!

My friend emailed me and mentioned the amount of her credit card debt. Mine is over twice hers. We were working it down, but this move has pushed it back up again. All my cards are almost full again. It's actually really depressing. Andrew reminds me that when we moved last time, we were also fully into my overdraft for $1000, PLUS we owed $1000 to other people. Not to mention my mom gave me $500. And when we got there, we didn't have any money to decorate or anything. This time around I gave us permission to spend money to make our home homey, plus that ellipse I bought. I *know* that, plus I know that as soon as I start getting paid full pays I'll be throwing lots of money at the credit cards to push everything down again, but it's really hard to feel monetarily successful.

I have such fanciful dreams of our first house together... a HUGE garden, and I'm going to can my own fruit and tomatos, and make jam and garlic pickled green beens, pickled beets, and regular ol' pickles - he PROMISED ME we'd have that!

I have just had the thought, however, that I should be canning and everything now. If I want to can, I should do it now! I keep thinking that I shouldn't wait for things, like, wait for the perfect time to do certain things, and for most things I've been really good and jumping into doing what I want NOW. But never for the homey type things, isn't that wierd? I can't have a garden, but I can have lots of plants. I don't have a big kitchen, but I should figure out canning and everything anyway. That's it, I've decided. (I'd say that for sewing, too, but I don't have a sewing machine. Dammit.)

Comments

[bethie8888.livejournal.com]

When I was a little girl, my Italian grandfather told me that lettuce gives women cellulite on the backs of their thighs.

Where does this crap come from?

[plinko.livejournal.com]

Wow.

I did not realize there were stores that sell only cookbooks.

That is so...strange and frightening to me. Since I cook toast, soup, and the occasional egg. Like some sort of bizarre cult, this cooking thing.