Anticipation
Yup...it's that time of year again. Time to start thinking about the victory garden. That's a savoy cabbage plant pictured above. Future food for my son and I. In a few months I plan on eating it. No, let me rephrase that. In a few month months, after I harvest the cabbage and some cayenne peppers from my front yard garden, I'll make kim chi--or rather, combine the ingredients and it will make itself--and then I will eat it.
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I haven't made any in a long time and I can't eat the commercially available, loaded with MSG, stuff. Celiac strikes again. On the one hand it's limiting, but on the other hand it's kept me from being able to eat a lot of the crap that's out there misrepresenting itself as "food" these days.
Perhaps you've given me the nudge to get back to it. A great uncle by marriage used to own a proper Jewish deli in Albany and I've got a couple of his old, stoneware pickle crocks. I can multi-batch in large enough quantity that I have trouble finishing the first before the second is ready, so if I really get it going I only have to wait for the first batch.
And one can make do with Japanese style quick pickles until that's ready. Although I suppose for the "food is something that comes out of a cardboard box" crowd even those won't be quick enough.
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