FOOD FOR THOUGHT

[Duchess]

There is something called breakfast cake. I don't dare investigate further.

[BigMark]

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[BigMark]

[BigMark]

Our first batch of brined olives haved cured, it took a long time. Now I am marinading them with oregano, blanched carrots, raw garlic and olive oil. I need to get some vinegar for the next batch. These are among the first olives harvested, I picked the last batch yesterday and am brining them. We ended up with 33.5 liters / 9 gallons of oil. And 4 gallons of brined olives.

The trees hadn't been pruned for a very long time so that slowed the process and increased the workload, now we need to dispose of the pruned branches, they normally burn here but Mrs. Biggie does not like that option and wants to mulch, that would take a month of hard labor...

[Duchess]

I feel like I would like to do that at least once for the experience of doing so.

[BigMark]

This moonshine is made from figs.

[BigMark]

Our next major crop will be loquats, probably about a 1000 pounds or more. The problem is they pretty much get ripe at the same time. While researching ways to eat and preserve them, the leaves actually make a tea good for respiratory problems, like my hacking cough. Just made a batch and will report back.

[Duchess]

That's a lot of fruit! Holy moly. Will you sell some of it?

[BigMark]

It would be fairly hard as you only need one tree for your personel consumption and most people have one. I have no idea why they planted so many, maybe feed the animals?

[BigMark]

What's crazy is the dark green leaf made Orange colored tea.

[Duchess]

I'm reading about loquats. It's said they have a sweet, subtly tangy taste with floral notes of citrus mixed with peaches & apricots. That sounds awesome. Mmmm.

[sally]

I love loquats. My neighbor had a tree when I was a kid and I’d eat them until I had a stomach ache. I like them when they’re more sour though. Once they get too ripe they’re not good anymore.

[Duchess]

Once they get too ripe they’re not good anymore.

Just this week I was reading about birds who were eating fermented fruit and becoming so intoxicated they would just fall out wherever they were. Well intentioned people who come across them would move them out of harms way so they could sleep it off. I'm laughing about it all over again.

[aussiefriend]

I would like to get shitfaced drunk on Christmas Day, but my daughter is like an alcohol Nazi, she would go off her head at me. I would have to do it on the sly.

[Duchess]

Are you going out for seafood at the hotel?

[aussiefriend]

No we have the best seafood in the world here. We did this last year, we baked a fish in alfoil in the BBQ. I have a baby Weber. It was divine, it kept my native quiet.

I can't afford to be waited on hand and foot until we get this white South African government in our State voted out next year. I am a bleck in this State at the moment.

[BigMark]

The better liquor is made from Medronho fruit, it is very fragile. I was eating it off the tree on my ride yeasterday.





https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbutus_unedo



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medronho

[aussiefriend]

Thought you would laugh at my comment Duch.

Mark, what does it taste like?

[Duchess]

I felt sorry for you having a white South African government.

[BigMark]

It tasted like a cross between an apple and strawberry.