Shitty Food Porn

Eh, Finland is so flat that the woods are enjoyable, you can't really see the forest from the trees, literally.

American nature actually looks gorgeous, with varying features. And redwoods? Oh my.

Our woods are fine yeah, but roe deer would be the easiest to find on some field / forest clearing at dawn / dusk. I don't have a hunting licence currently, but it's just a theory test. Then the poundage on the bow needs to be at least... oh they've changed these. "The shot needs to yield at least 180 N with the draw length of the shooter." And since 2018 they've required a shooting test as well. I was not aware. Basically you informed me, because you made me look. Thanks.

Oh and yeah smoking isn't the same as drinking, but no, I wouldn't need to smoke while hunting. I'd say it affects me on the same level as caffeine for most people. You know some people say caffeine doesn't affect them at all? Well ofc it does, they just don't notice it. So cannabis affects me as well, but it doesn't lower your inhibitions or make you shake all over so I don't think it's really that risky for an experienced user.

Overall intoxicating effects, if someone has never smoked cannabis, yeah, that would be debilitating. But I've smoked daily for years.

Yeah I do do a bit of gardening yeah. I mean, not properly for food plants. I do currently have a small bucket of garlic that started to grow I thought I'd plant those cloves and see what happens. I grew chilis a few times. And my most often done thing is reportting basil / salad when I come from the store and putting it in a larger pot. Basils last me for months, salads for weeks. And I actively use the basil though, just tearing leaves off. But if I cook with fresh basil once a week it'll regrow most of it or even more by the next week. And salad just is nice dry and fresh leaf to put in between a sandwich.

But veggies are so cheap and cannabis isn't, that most of my gardening isn't the legal variety. :D

It looks horrible now, I've not tended it much recently as I'm gonna change the salad and basil out, the salad is blooming if you can see the stalk reaching upwards from it. There was a bug infestation so I sprayed hydrogen peroxide and neem oil and some the plants took a bit offense as well. Can't really see but the big black has in it oregano (that's what brought the flies this time), but there's also red onion and garlic in that. A shallot and leeks as well just for laughs.

I have a north facing balcony and never get enough sunshine to grow anything out there. Which is ironic as the houses on this street or this area is called "sun valley" in Finnish. Utterly ironic.

Unless you honestly enjoy gardening or have room outside in the sun, I don't think it's really worth it tbh with how cheap those are in stores. At least for me, as I need to actually use energy to grow them with the lights.

But yeah having a base tomato sauce and those veggies as bases makes it much easier for me to have the energy to make a meal because it won't take hours. I should complain to my landlord because my freezer has been drawing it's last for years.

Really the most motivation I got to do this is because I discovered a wheat allergy last year and I can't trust any shops or ready made products. Even the supposedly gluten free ones are often lacking, as they can be called gluten free if it's just below 20mg/kg, but still clearly give me symptoms.

So I try making most things as from the scratch I can pretty much. A lot of doing for most things, but cooking is fun and I've nothing better to do. If only somoene cleaned up afterwards I'd do it every day