What Preps are you doing this week? Part 8.

[jansman]

Meanwhile pig farmers can't sell their pigs because they have grown too big for the meat processors:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-humber-55997320

WT actual F?
Hey Jansman, want to get in a bit of overtime if the rest of us buy up some unwanted over-size porkers?

Ha ha! Not a chance! I do enough sodding work.

My wife is actually semi- vegetarian. We do tend towards that kind of diet these days. My boss eats meat like Henry the eighth, and has the blood pressure to match.

Back on thread; this is Brexit in action.Our pig growers will go out of business, and we will have to import at horrendous prices. The pig farmer at the end of our village told me he is chucking the towel in and flogging the land for houses.Cannot blame him.

[Arzosah]

Back on thread; this is Brexit in action.Our pig growers will go out of business, and we will have to import at horrendous prices. The pig farmer at the end of our village told me he is chucking the towel in and flogging the land for houses.Cannot blame him.

OMG. That's serious, along with the shellfish industry dying Got to be some serious thinking about protein - hazelnuts, for one, lots of sunflower seeds. I wish I recognised walnut trees.

[jansman]

Back on thread; this is Brexit in action.Our pig growers will go out of business, and we will have to import at horrendous prices. The pig farmer at the end of our village told me he is chucking the towel in and flogging the land for houses.Cannot blame him.

OMG. That's serious, along with the shellfish industry dying Got to be some serious thinking about protein - hazelnuts, for one, lots of sunflower seeds. I wish I recognised walnut trees.

I do think that the end of ‘ cheap’ food is close. Meat in particular.I feel that meat( as Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall said many years ago) will become a ‘seasoning’ to vegetables.

As fossil fuels contract, also, we shall have to look inwards towards our local resources.

[Arzosah]

A bit of a win, and a bit of a lose, today. I was saying about a belt with a hidden zip at the back, to hide currency and pm coins? I fetched it out of storage today, and tried to put my pm-heavy half crown coins in it - they're too big the zip won't close. My 1oz silver from silvertrader uk arrived with me packed in protective hard plastic, no chance at all of them going in it so it might come down to some £20 notes and £2 coins from the existing stash, better than nothing, but not what I was planning.

The win was incidental, while I was looking for the belt: found a very old bike padlock with a key in it that still works so it's now securing the bolt to my side gate. I'll need to get a copy, but I'm happy with that.

Jansman, totally agree about meat becoming a seasoning for vegetables - it's kind of the original way that food was eaten in the Mediterranean.

[ForgeCorvus]

Jansman, totally agree about meat becoming a seasoning for vegetables - it's kind of the original way that food was eaten in the Mediterranean.

Bread & Pottage ( One recipe here), eaten by just about everyone from the 12th century onwards..... Now seems to be making a comeback due to its healthy nature
Basically whatever veg you have mixed with some sort of grains or pulses, cooked up in water or stock made from whatever was available. Served with bread and maybe cheese or butter depending on you having any left.

[jansman]

Jansman, totally agree about meat becoming a seasoning for vegetables - it's kind of the original way that food was eaten in the Mediterranean.

Bread & Pottage ( One recipe here), eaten by just about everyone from the 12th century onwards..... Now seems to be making a comeback due to its healthy nature
Basically whatever veg you have mixed with some sort of grains or pulses, cooked up in water or stock made from whatever was available. Served with bread and maybe cheese or butter depending on you having any left.

We have been watching theTudor Monastery Farm. We commented that SO many skills are now lost . We may have computers and a workforce that can stay at home and tip- tap and trade INFORMATION. But less and less folks who have PROPER skills to actually make stuff. My wife , now a teacher, started working as a shoemaker,and seamstress. Myself , a butcher/ slaughterman ( and soldier for a couple of years).

At work we sell in- house ready- meals. We can’t make enough. People can’t cook! We ( society) are less able to support ourselves ( clever as we think we are) than Tudor peasants.

[Arzosah]

We have been watching theTudor Monastery Farm. We commented that SO many skills are now lost .

Me too! I've just watched the first of today's episodes - honestly, I felt like taking notes. I'd be all right for lime putty round here teachers round here used to go to the beach and pick up pieces of chalk for the kids to play with. Of course, now that they all use whiteboards, they can't do that

Pottage featured in Tudor Monastery Farm, ForgeCorvus I'd forgotten about that. And it's partly the origin of Scouse, which also has Irish and Norwegian roots, I believe.

[diamond lil]

What channel is it on?

[jansman]

What channel is it on?

I watched it on BBC i player.

[Le Mouse]

We have been watching theTudor Monastery Farm. We commented that SO many skills are now lost .

Me too!

Me three! I've had the episodes on a loop basically the last couple of days! I'm very fond of the 'Farm' team. I have the DVD of Tales from Green Valley which is where Ruth and Peter first worked together, together with Alex Langlands. I think Tudor Monastery Farm is the first time Tom Pinfold worked with them. After this they went and helped make a medieval castle in France: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secrets_of_the_Castle