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Food to Eat

10 October 2015 by Kortney

Living in the jungle ruined me.  When you live for years without electricity, when the nearest store is a 2 hour canoe ride to get into the back of a semi truck for 4 hours on a dirt road, you learn to scale back your culinary expectations.

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Ok, there was a store in the village that sold unrefrigerated beer with cough drops–you suck on the cough drop while drinking the beer to trick yourself into thinking it’s cold.  Good times!

So my standards have slipped.  I’d be happy with a pot of beans, an occasional roast chicken with bread and cheese, and maybe something more elaborate for feast days.  For the most part, my family is easy to please.  But still food has to be planned and procured, cooked and cleaned up.  And these people want to eat several times every day.

The change that has had the biggest effect is simple freezer cooking.  I think the best book to start with is Fix, Freeze, Feast.  The method is easy to understand, and the book is filled with tasty recipes.  Then I would move on to Jessica Fisher’s Not-Your-Mother’s-Make Ahead and Freeze Cookbook.  It’s more involved, but the payoff is bigger too.  Try Jessica’s book after you have built up a little confidence making things from Fix, Freeze, Feast.

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Comments

  1. Tahara says

    12 October 2015 at 10:17 am

    I totally agree with your sentiments here…I often find myself saying to myself, “These people want to eat several times a day” 😉

    • Kortney says

      12 October 2015 at 11:45 am

      I don’t know why it should come as such a surprise to me!

  2. Danielle says

    14 October 2015 at 12:27 pm

    I came to your website via the RAR podcast yesterday. Loving this series! So fun to find you learning from Jessica Fisher! I met her once and we were “blog friends” back before she started her “professional” blog. So fun.

    • Kortney says

      14 October 2015 at 2:44 pm

      Ah, thanks so much for saying hello, Danielle! I love me some Jessica Fisher. She even lives in my hometown 🙂

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