3 days have flown past … the 20kg of roasted peppers have finished their journey and become a large load of delicious Zakuska. Another large batch of Zakuska with onions, eggplant and peppers is also ready and slowly cooling down.

We also created a wonderful thing called a winter salad which includes finely chopped parsley roots & leaves, celery roots and leaves, carrots, green peppers, red peppers and dill … all mixed with a lot of salt to keep it preserved. It’s a ready to use cooking mix … we’ve tested it already and it is amazing. Chop an onion add some of the mix and you are good to go (it’s already salted too!).

Today we had guests over (a lovely couple who are preparing for a home-birth and have asked Andreea to be there with them as a doula) … so we didn’t get as much done as we had planned. We did managed to prepare another large batch of tomato sauce.

After tasting everything its getting harder to avoid eating it daily.

The rocket stove continues to rock day after day … amazing productivity with very little wood!

oh … and the dogs (the big ones) practically tried to kill each other the other night … not a nice ending for a long day of work.