Our makeshift kitchen consits of a borrowed stove, washing up bowl for a sink with plastic bottle to collect water from the bathroom, store cupboards and a donated microwave. The one new item was the fridge/freezer. What have we been cooking? Well we have been foraging blackberries this week. They're not as sweet as the UK variety but we enjoy them and the blackberry pie went down very well. I have just read Steve Charter's book 'Eate More Raw' which was certainly food for thought. I am experimenting with a 50% raw diet which I started this week with a fruit breakfast. I've cut out wheat and tea (which I love). I've cut down on dairy and meat but culturally it's quite difficult to cut it out altogether as meat is a big part of food with pig killing fiestas being a big celebration. However, Steve himself lives in Spain so it is possible. I've had headaches and a sore throat for a couple of days but that could be coincidence. There are lots of greens in the garden although stray cows and escapee sheep have helped themselves to a few that I planted out on the mountain of top soil. 
Apples are everywhere now - I just have to think where we can store them where our ever present mice friends cannot get to them. The neighbours who just come here for the fiestas have said I can help myself to their appples aswell.
We have in our possession a Ginko Biloba tree which I read about on the brilliant website 'Plants for a Future'. I've no idea if it is male or female but to watch it grow over the years will I'm sure give some pleasure and health benefits. I also read about the Monkey Puzzle tree which can give the biggest harvest of nuts than any other nut tree but it takes 40 years to do so. It is difficult to know which is male or female so they recommend planting about 4 (not something for the backyard). So much to think about and so much to do!
I'm reading 'The 7 Habbits of Highly Effective People' by S. Covey. Will get back to you on that one.
2 comments:
Wow, your kichen looks great. Nigella Lawson would be jealous. You should have your own country cookery programme, with Megan becoming the new, if slightly smaller, Ainsley Harriot. I hope you got over your non specific kerryitus soon enough, your diet sounds incredibly healthy. I can't believe you've given up the Earl Grey though, tea's natural isn't it?
I remember from somewhere that the monkey puzzle tree evolved its spiky leaves to make it inedible for dinosaurs, really, it's almost unchanged from 65 million years ago. If you get a plague of brontosaurus in the area you'll be laughing.
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