Everything tasted bacon :-)

Written by Christer.
I tried to aim on the mouse wearing a head lamp at the same time I took the photo, more tricky than one can think 🙂

No snowfall today but we’ll get rain later tonight instead and it will continue all day tomorrow and it will be mixed with a lot of snow as well, but according to the weather sites and the tv forecast it’ll stay above 0C (32F) so I guess it’ll all melt away quickly, at least I hope so. This is a cold hole so one never knows 🙂

We walked the same way today but in the opposite direction, Yesterday I noticed how much of those small fields were worked on by wild hogs and they had been busy last night as well. I do hope they’ll keep their distance because meeting wild hogs in the garden the first thing in the morning is not on my top ten things to do 🙂 🙂 🙂 I think however it will be easier for them to walk in to my neighbours garden since they  only have a thin hedge beside the electric fence that goes around the entire pasture and that fence hasn’t stopped them so far.

I think this is one of those stones they used way back in the days to grind flour. I wonder how old it is, after all people have lived around here since the Stone Age.

Writing about electric fences, today Malcolm learned how it feels to get stung by one and unlike all other dogs he didn’t blame me for it 🙂 🙂 He did keep his distance to the fence after that though 🙂 I was later thinking of the hogs when I was frying some pork for dinner, when I did that I came to think of my mother. She has never been a good cook, quite the contrary and that’s why I learned to make my own food already as eleven years old. She’s amazing making sauces and for some reason she has always been good at making mashed turnips and pork knuckle, well it is her favourite food 🙂 🙂 🙂 Her meatballs however were either hard as a bullet and used like one a moose wouldn’t stand a chance, or they could just disintegrate in to a powder 🙂 🙂 🙂

Anyhow she became a bit more interested later in life. She and her then fiancé were quite often out fishing and always caught a lot of Cottidae, a small and rather ugly little fish but that tastes really good, so she learned how to fry that. They also were out picking mushrooms in autumn and always found a lot of Puffballs, they are edible and quite nice as small and she learned how to like those too. One day I asked her what the fish tasted like and she said: It’s the oddest thing but it tastes like bacon. I asked her if that really was true and she said it was. Well why not but then I asked her if she liked the puffballs as well and yes she did, oddly enough those tasted like bacon as well. I eat that mushroom a lot and they sure doesn’t taste like bacon 🙂 🙂

This is the old well to the cottage the Beekeeper lived, clear and nice water but the well dried out almost every summer.
This was their spare well, never dried out but so much rust in the water that it was almost un drinkable.

My mother belongs to the old kind that if You fry something and there’s fat still in the frying pan she saves it for next time 🙂 Well I think You’ve guessed it, they tended to eat a lot of bacon so every time they fried something they did so in bacon grease 🙂 🙂 🙂 everything from broccoli to any kind of fish tasted like bacon 🙂 🙂 🙂

It is time for that last cup of tea for the day, I might have a banana too but I’m really not hungry after my dinner. It will at least stay above 0C (32F) the coming week but oh how I long for spring!

Have a great day!

10 thoughts on “Everything tasted bacon :-)”

  1. Christer, the story about your mother saying everything tasted like bacon was amusing. For while, Grenville also saved beacon fat in a glass jar, and while he reused some of it, more than often it as tossed.

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    2. USian bacon doesn’t make very good bacon fat (I now use US for the USA, not America, because that’s more accurate)(USian citizens are called Esatadosunidienses in Spanish which is a mouthful!)

      My mom was a terrible cook too. My dad used to say he had to teach her how to make boiled eggs. It later devolved into teaching her how to boil water. She had servants growing up, bad for culinary skills. However, to get back on track, I was the oldest child and was learning how to cook before I was 10. I was tall enough to stir pots. I made some interesting meals (in the negative sense!).

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      1. Hi carolannie!

        USA would be America’s Förenade Stater in Swedish a bit much to try to use that as well 🙂 Well we could try the shortening, AFS 🙂

        So much the same for You 🙂 My mother has never liked to cook so therefore never really learned it.
        Yes the first time I tried to fry eggs I had way to much heat on and they both looked and smelled disgusting 🙂 🙂 🙂

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  2. I don’t know why bacon made me think of coffee, but your story reminded me of how my boyfriend years ago never washed his coffee pot because he said it would ruin the taste of the coffee. It was a clear glass pot, and so filthy I couldn’t see through it, so one day I washed it. Brown scrunge lifted out of it in sheets, and I got it sparkly clean like new. My boyfriend had a FIT, said I “ruined” his pot! I didn’t notice any difference in the taste of his coffee after that. I think he was just too lazy to wash the pot.

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      1. Hi ppekka!

        I do laugh about it when it pops up in my brain 🙂 🙂 🙂
        but she has never been a fan of cooking and we couold be happy if what she made was edible 🙂 Now days she doesn’t need to cook if she doesn’t want to, she can get food delivered if she wants to.

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    2. Hi cats working!

      People still believe that old myth 🙂 🙂 🙂 Coffee or tea always taste better in clean pots and cups plus no risk of getting any kind of bacteria down that loves that old surface down the throat 🙂
      Either he actually believed in it but most likely he was just lazy 🙂 🙂 🙂

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