If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood, and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.
-Antoine de Saint-Exupery
To "catch ones tail" is to believe in your own ability, even when faced with your own shortcomings and worldly challenges. I don't succeed in this by will power, or sacrifice, through competition or punishment. I only overcome by having a deep passion for something. A search for the truth, love and beauty of what I want or need.
Currently I am needing to embrace the concept of economy. Not poverty in the true sense of the word, my version of it. Economy is not poverty, not a condition to be overcome, but is an ideal I get to be a part of. In my search for the truth, love and beauty in Economy, I am reading An Everlasting Meal by Tamar Adler. She reminds me that getting everything precious out of an orange, or a leek or a potato, is a reminder of how essential food is to life, and how lucky we are to eat a meal.
Salt Brine
Ratio: The Simple Codes etc by Michael Ruhlman
Makes the tough, tender, the unwanted, edible. Also can be used to kill weeds. Pour out used brine over straggily sidewalks, etc. This recipe is enough for 1 cut up chicken, double recipe for a large bird, ham or large beef roast.
50 grams or salt in a liter of water
or
1 oz of salt for every 20 ounces of water
or
2 Tbl Kosher salt for every 2 1/2 cups water
Boil salt with water until it dissolves. Cool solution in fridge until cold. Place your meat of choice in the solution, in the refrigerator, covered for hours. The larger the piece of the meat, the longer it stays. Chicken pieces may only need 6 or so hours, a whole chicken could sit over night. Remove meat from brine, dry meat well, and dispose of brine over unwanted weedy areas. No additional salting is needed.
