Dilemmas ...

To solar cook or not to solar cook …

To eat a peanut butter and honey sandwich or delve into the onions, lentils and rice(they’d have to be cooked)…

To wait and see if the sun comes out of those grey clouds that aren’t raining or not ….

To be one with the plethora (I’ve always loved that word) of tomatoes from the CSA or …

Whether ‘tis nobler to cut the tomatoes and brave the damp heat outside to dehydrate or wait until another using the dreadful humid heat to postpone action …..

Okay, so I made my choice! :)

I cut up the tomatoes and put them outside in the Tulsi oven to dehydrate. I’ve saved some to eat not dehydrated, too. Dehydrating will take a day or two but no more than that. If they are out there too long, like a day too long, they can taste scorched. I swear the last group I did just tasted too crispy and a little scorched. But two days in the sun has come out tasty before.

As for lunch, it’s lentils and rice and onions and some herbs and out in the other solar oven.

And the sun has come out in a clear blue sky after mid day.

Most days of the past two weeks have started very overcast looking like some rain but they clear off and don’t do anything else. My neighborhood finally got some rain last night …. Steady couple of hours, no big wind storm.

The clouds when they are fluffy and white seem like they are ships with puffy sails gliding in a fleet across the sky. The dark low clouds and the puffy fleets are a welcome change from endless hot blue sky. Some people would find endless blue sky hard to ever get tired of but it is possible.

And on Food shopping day from Sprouts, I filled in my gaps in food storage:
Chickpeas, red lentils, yellow split peas, cornmeal, farina, dried apricots, dried cranberries, two jars of that applesauce I really like from Sprouts, a special on an attractive jar of apricot jam so I got one of them.

Looking over their bulk spices section to see about having lemon grass or sweet grass. I didn’t get anything there but picked up two bunches of fresh parsley to probably dehydrate if I don’t get it all used in a few days. I’m completely out of ANY kind of parsley, and my parsley plant isn’t producing much of anything right now.

Two dilemmas solved today. I've got lots more I just don't want to do any of the choices I have!

peace, Shamba