Vittles

The years go by and the Panasonic breadmaker still does a great job of banging out a whole wheat loaf while we are outside in the garden. 

Here we are a decade or more later and the price of a seven hundred gram loaf is still about fifty cents to make at home, but in the supermarkets, despite all the outcry about "bread price fixing" between the big companies, bread is more expensive than it ever has been, yet strangely, the cost of bulk flour is only about ten percent more than it was back when we lived in Gibsons.

The jar is a rescue effort for some mixed peppers that were in the fridge, we do our utmost to conserve all types of food and the bell peppers were chopped and blanched in our proprietary pickle juice (water, vinegar, sugar) and they will now be fine to be consumed over the next few weeks.  

The appliance in the background is the new air fryer which, despite doubts, has become an excellent alternative to heating up the big oven and actually makes food tastier by not stripping all the moisture out.

We have been converted, resistance is futile.