Much Needed Break - Road Trip

A little over a week ago, we took a much needed break.  At the same time we took advantage of stopping at some of the many food growers/producers/suppliers scattered throughout southwestern Ontario.  The first day of our journey, we stopped at:  a whole sale food distributor, a cheese factory, a grain mill, a fish monger  and a few smaller venues.  While there, time spent in nature meant renewing the spirit while discovering new plants and doing a bit of foraging.  We enjoyed several lovely meals and the turkey carcass was carefully packaged for the ride home.  Our final stop was a lovely Asian meal at our daughter's.

Looking back, we were away 5 days and yet every day I was able to do something that would help our pantry and preparedness at home.  I personally don't feel that now is the time to do nothing so my goal is do something daily but at the same time a change of scenery is restorative and good for the soul.  

It's always fun for us to discover new food suppliers too.  Two of the places we stopped at, I have ordered from several times online so it was really nice getting to meet them!  One was a totally new discovery but definitely a keeper on our list of local 'must stops' when we are on a road trip.  Speaking of road trips,  we're already planning a foodie road trip now that asparagus and rhubarb is running.

The next morning, I was up dealing with what was left of our purchases.  The following morning, I made a beautiful turkey stock with the carcass and canned most of it but froze a couple of bags.  Good thing, because we only had one jar of turkey stock left!  Our days of finding cheap turkeys in the US have been dampered by the current events and quite frankly, turkeys are so expensive on the Canadian side you almost have to take out a second mortgage to buy one.  At any rate, our daughter found a great turkey deal so we got one.

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