This is what I love...

[Saralexis]

... How powerful all these new skills are making me!

It's a Saturday afternoon, we've watched the rugby and had a couple of beers. Children ask for burgers for supper and instead of 'no we don't have any, or any buns' I think: 'well there's mince because I'm half way through making lasagne and I've got dough proving so I can take a bit of that and make buns'. And I already know how to do it, and what I need to add and how to shape the buns... And I even have some home made relish!

It's just so wonderful not to be a helpless consumer, my life as a producer is only beginning but isn't it splendid!?

And ish-ish.

Sxx

[romie]

I had a similar moment with a sausage quiche the other day
*smug grin*



That sounds ruder than I intended

[baldybloke]

Emptied the fridge by cooking an aubergine, pepper and mushroom lasagne tonight. Washed down by a beer. Feeling good and full after a very productive day.

[battybird]

I had a similar moment with a sausage quiche the other day
*smug grin*



That sounds ruder than I intended

I had a meatball moment which is probably even ruder! And OH even said they were better than I*** s but think that goes without saying anyway!! Mine had homemade roast tomato and garlic puree sauce rather than thin brown "stuff"

[Thomzo]

Was short of veg the other day so went out and picked some spinach and sorrel from the garden. Wonderful not to have to go to the shop. Zoe

[The Riff-Raff Element]

Eating the first eggs from your own hens is a very fine moment on the -ish path.

[the.fee.fairy]

Being able to make food from home here in China is always good for me!
I've got a shepherd's (pigherder's?) pie in the oven right now!

[Mustardseedmama]

I know this is an older post, but I so much know how this feels. I've had lots of these "moments" in the last eight years, but the best one was when I found out my Dad and Stepmother were coming to visit, and I cooked an entire meal, including dessert, from things grown on our place; roast pork loin, new potatoes, green beans, hot yeast rolls, sliced tomato salad, and strawberry shortcake for dessert. When My Dad found out we had grown all of it (except the wheat for the rolls and shortcake), he was stunned.

This was two years after we had moved to the country. I was raised an average city kid. He couldn't believe how much I had taught myself--way more than I ever learned in school.