A lot of South Enders, isolated from the mainland and remote from major grocery outlets, have reverted to primitive customs.\u00a0 Now, don\u2019t you northern neighbors worry — we aren\u2019t talking cannibalism here.\u00a0 Not yet.\u00a0 No, we\u2019ve gone back to ancestral roots.\u00a0 We\u2019ve become hunter-gatherers.\u00a0 Most of us have small gardens, some of us have large ones, but we grow what we can to supplement what we can\u2019t afford down at the Plaza IGA and Hardware Sales. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u00a0 Sure, the tomatoes we planted in May don\u2019t ripen until October and the corn won\u2019t grow high enough to hide our medical marijuana plants and there\u2019s really only so much a person can do with the zucchini that always threatens to escape the deer fence and become the kudzu of kamano with thousands of gourds dropping down from power lines like aerial IED\u2019s on car windshields and the Walking Women of Mabana\u2019s phalanx of human obstacles to unwanted commuter traffic. \u00a0<\/p>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 So we\u2019ve been forced to resort to yet another strategy for culinary survival: CANNING.\u00a0 A lot of my neighbors come to me and say, Skeeter, I just don\u2019t think I can eat another jar of your savory ZUCCHINI DADDLE DILLS, no offense.\u00a0 And I say, None Taken, and gently move them to a recipe from Skeeter\u2019s Skillet Skills (available at Addled Daddle Press for 9.95 plus shipping and handling), the chapter on food preservation.\u00a0 I like to give them a Tried and True first, something like the wildly popular Nettle Kraut, a fermented in the crock nettle with maximum garlic that, once canned, can be eaten on Christmas snowgoose or Easter crab bratwurst (another Skillet Skill fave) or just a snappy side dish any occasion. \u00a0<\/p>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I\u2019m not suggesting these pioneer skills will end poverty down here or take the place of\u00a0 our food banks, but for those of us who chose unemployment over work, it has been a lifesaver.\u00a0 You start canning a cellar full of nettle kraut, you might consider telling that jerk boss of yours to take a hike too.\u00a0 You got the safety net now, that\u2019s for sure.\u00a0 And with a healthy diet, you can drop that health insurance.\u00a0 This stuff cures what ails ya. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Next week we\u2019ll talk Animal Husbandry.\u00a0 And no, I don\u2019t mean Tough Love Matrimony.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A lot of South Enders, isolated from the mainland and remote from major grocery outlets, have reverted to primitive customs.\u00a0 Now, don\u2019t you northern neighbors worry — we aren\u2019t talking cannibalism here.\u00a0 Not yet.\u00a0 No, we\u2019ve gone back to ancestral roots.\u00a0 We\u2019ve become hunter-gatherers.\u00a0 Most of us have small gardens, some of us have large […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[2271,4103,5756],"class_list":["post-16815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rantings-and-ravings","tag-no-job-no-cry","tag-self-sufficiency","tag-survival-skills"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skeeterdaddle.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skeeterdaddle.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skeeterdaddle.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skeeterdaddle.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skeeterdaddle.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16815"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.skeeterdaddle.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16816,"href":"https:\/\/www.skeeterdaddle.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16815\/revisions\/16816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skeeterdaddle.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skeeterdaddle.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skeeterdaddle.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}