Veggie sautee with 100% garden veggies: long beans, sweet pepper, and Okinawa spinach (which grows incredibly well in our area and is a rich source of cooked green leaf veg).

This is the first time we've had my beloved long beans in years (the first year we lived here, we harvested them by the bucket and it was incredible). I'm saving the beans (and cooking the pods, which are soft and tasty) because this is exactly my favorite kind of bean and I don't want to repeat my previous mistake of letting them drop off. They are too delicious and nutritious!

Now I just need a local source of cooking oil (there has to be a local coconut oil company, right? 🤔 There's local macadamia nut oil, but it's very $$$)

...and an alternative to propane 😭 (I do have my solar cooker, but it doesn't fry - it steams, boils, bakes).

This was part of a lunch that included a fried egg (egg from @saltphoenix 's birds), fresh tomato from the garden, and short grain brown rice from the store. Instead of rice, I often have kalo (taro) from my bf, but today I didn't have any.

When the boats stop coming, I think there will be a lot less frying (more cooking over a fire) and when frying does happen, it'll be on butter (or tallow, for the meat eaters). It's definitely easier to get butter from cows than oil from coconuts or macadamias.

And as for propane replacement, I really don't know, but probably the ideal solution would be to get beefy solar panels and batteries, and an induction cooker.

I also don't have a local replacement for soy sauce, but we do have salt on the shoreline. It gathers in little low areas in shoreline rocks during dry periods. To get enough for daily supply though, you'd have to know the spots and spend a fair bit of time harvesting. The shoreline in my area really puts the "trace" in "trace minerals". I'd have to find the right spots.

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