Howdy

[Cheezy]

Found my way here because I was looking for help with solar water heating, and as it happens bio disel....bingo found both, plus loads of other stuff I'm into , and I recon I'm a bit "ish" myself so...

Hi

Currently I use raised beds to grow more obscure veg and fruit and salads in my back garden.

I've got my name down for an allotment , but I'm 13th and have to wait for another cold winter to see off a few of the old timers (Only jokin!.)

I like the organic concept, and I am in a local bag scheme, however I think it is more important to buy LOCAL produce. "Yes it might be organic Mr. Sainsbury's but you've flown it in from Austrailia!!!."

I am into the slow food concept, and think we've lost the whole idea about seasonality.I do all the cooking, preserving. And been home brewing since I was 11, my Gran started me off and I've inherited her 1950's WI wines,beers,cough remedies book.

I buy all my meats from the local farms (usually organic), what veg we do buy is from the market.

One day I will move out to the country side, get some land with a wood and a stream , put in a water wheel, wind turbine, solar etc.......mists over as dreams.

Well thats me

ciao for now

C

[gunners71uk]

hi cheezy pls to meet you .

[shiney]

Welcome along Cheezy!

Good name btw.

[ina]

Hi Cheezy, welcome to the site!
You are not the only one with these dreams...

Do you have a local slow food group? There's one here in Aberdeen, but the one and only time I tried to contact them they didn't reply. I now live quite far out of town, so it wouldn't really be interesting to go all that way for events - I make my own slow food!

[Cheezy]

Hello shiney,ina and gunners.

Not found a local slow food group yet...however I believe they will be every where one day.

Got into it in Italy (where the movement started)while on my honeymoon!. Went to this great restaurant with no menu, only opened Thursday, Friday and Saturaday. Each day a different theme. Cost about £15 a head for 8 course dinner, no option. All traditional, local, seasonal food. Fantastic.

Ina, they might yet get in contact.....all be it a little slow

[Millymollymandy]

Hello Cheezy and welcome to the site!

Now can someone please explain what slow food is?

[Wombat]

G'Day cheezy,

Welcome to the site!

MMM slow food is the opposite of fast food - old fashined do it yourself from scratch type food (I think!)

Nev

[Muddypause]

Also, slow in the eating. None of this brisk walk to the next appointment with a burger in your hand and call that lunch. Ideally spend hours over a decent meal, I think.

[Andy Hamilton]

I must be into slow food without even knowing it then.

Drinking from 11 that a bit illegal or is it if you brew your own, I guess if you are buying alcohol as such, hmm one to ponder upon.

Welcome to the site cheezy.

[gunners71uk]

i like slown fast food lol. cook straight off the lottie and put a wood pigeon in too, some red currants and a slurp of red wine.too.a wok and a primus stove.

[Millymollymandy]

All my food is slow. The only fast food in Brittany is MacDonalds! Take aways, what's that?

[Stonehead]

G'day from Aberdeenshire's token feral Aussie!

Our food is definitely slow - it takes about 18 months for some of our vegetables to make it onto the table.

I like the organic concept, and I am in a local bag scheme, however I think it is more important to buy LOCAL produce. "Yes it might be organic Mr. Sainsbury's but you've flown it in from Austrailia!!!."

I'm organic and flown in from Australia, but everyone will be relieved to learn there's no BOGOF offer...

And been home brewing since I was 11, my Gran started me off and I've inherited her 1950's WI wines,beers,cough remedies book.

There are quite a few homebrewers here, we're the ones whose spelling deteriorates as the evening wears on.

I'd be very interested in some of those old recipes - I have a few but a whole book of them is my idea of heaven.

One day I will move out to the country side, get some land with a wood and a stream , put in a water wheel, wind turbine, solar etc.......mists over as dreams.

Those dreams are attainable - mine took 25 years and a lot of hard graft. Now the OH and I have an increasingly self-sufficient croft - and even more hard graft!

Here's to attaining dreams and finding them even better than you'd hoped.

Stonehead

[Stonehead]

Hello Cheezy and welcome to the site!

Now can someone please explain what slow food is?

Have a look at http://www.slowfood.com/

Stonehead

[Stonehead]

All my food is slow. The only fast food in Brittany is MacDonalds! Take aways, what's that?

Takeaway is going out at dawn with the air rifle, potting a pigeon and a rabbit, then frying them up with fresh picked mushrooms, parsley from the herb bed and garlic from the plait above the door, before eating them with fresh-baked bread and fresh-pressed apple juice. All before 7am.

Now I'm hungry again...

Stonehead

PS McDonalds - that's the chap who sells me my barley and oats.

[Cheezy]

Nice to meet you all.

Stonehead

My Gran's book is a killer. You can make anything from absolutely anything.

Wine from birch sap, oak leaves,golden rod,used tea leaves, plus all the "normal" stuff.

The cough cures and vinegars are an absolute hoot.

Perhaps I should "copy right permitting" put a few down on the site, you'd be amazed.

Milly, as a few have already intemated, slow food is the opposite to fast food, its been done with care and love, in it's own time (ie seasonal) and prepared to make the most of taste ( no that does not mean MSG added)
The Italians started the movement to maintain their seasonality and regional specialities in opposition to supermarkets and "chain" food outlets. However if you've ever been to an Italian supermarket they make ours look very sad indeed, as they tend to stock local seasonal stuff, and veg's that are on sale because they taste the best ,and not because they have a better shelf life

Steps down from the soap box and goes out side for cool air and a breather.