Something I Miss
I miss living in the countryside — the real, working, farming, smelly countryside. Isolated here in a vast wasteland of suburbia — surrounded by everything I could ever want and wanting none of it — I yearn to wake up to the sharp smell of cowshit on the fields, the sound of goats and hens in the neighbour’s garden, horses in the meadow behind the house, tractors flying past at the front as the farmers race to harvest before the rain comes, and the sure knowledge that it will take at least an hour to get to any decent shopping. Isolation, but not isolated at all…
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Something I Love
I love butter in wrappers that marked out in baking measurements. It is a simple stroke of genius — and why they don’t do it in the UK is beyond me. It makes cooking so much easier. I love it!
Stumble it!
Something I love: the countryside. After spending the majority of my life living in cities, with concrete and a plethora of shops… the countryside, and it’s bugs, and smells, and farm equipment not letting you overtake down the A-road… LOVE IT!
Something I miss: yankee butter and all those delicious measurements. Though the 50g markings are an improvement they’re of no use to me when using most cookbooks I own.
Well, there is plenty of countryside in the United States. I walk out of my mom’s door and see a field with horses grazing, and out back there’s a fishing pond and a grove of pine trees…and tractors are a very common sight on the road in front of her house….
We’ve finally caught up with the US…we do have measurements on the packs of butter! xxx
I much prefer visiting the countryside to living in it! I used to ‘keep’ goats and chickens…and we had lots of other animals and lots of struggle as well – I miss the good parts but wouldn’t go back unless you gave me several million to do so.
OK, Gaynor, what brand of butter is that?? The only markings I’ve seen on mine seem to divide the pack into thirds…I want it marked off in Tablespoons!!
I hated that the butter came in blocks of, what was it, 250g? I think I do remember the ones with the 50g markings, but that wasn’t really that helpful for my needs.