Unstuffed: Gold Bouillon Securities

Monday, June 21, 2010

Gold Bouillon Securities

I invest in gold.

It only cost pennies per ounce.

I keep it safe, in my freezer.

I make it myself.

This gold came from the water I blanched my spinach in. Then I threw in the spinach stalks and the stalks of kale I had saved from an earlier kale chip making venture.

This is the best kind of alchemy. The kind I can eat.

7 comments:

Alicia said...: Hey sooo...there's probably a rather obvious answer to this but do you just put them in the fridge? I'm in the process of replacing all of my plastic storage containers with glass (mostly reused/salvaged mason jars) but if you want to freeze something it's not very practical to have glass. I package precooked items/fruit/veggies/anything solid in glass bakeware (with plastic lids) but anything liquid would probably be a disaster. Could you freeze it first and then put the lid on? If you do just put it in the fridge (the bouillon specifically) how long will it keep? Thanks in advance!; June 21, 2010 at 1:40 PM
wendyytb said...: What would you use this for, Amber?; June 22, 2010 at 9:56 AM
Alicia said...: Apparently I somehow missed that you actually WROTE that you keep it in your freezer...; June 22, 2010 at 1:41 PM
Amber said...: Hey Alicia! Yes, I do keep them in the freezer in glass jars. They do take up a bit of space, but I'd rather use glass than plastic if I can. And you do have to be careful doing it that way, because it can indeed be a disaster as you say. I avoid breakage by only using canning jars which tend to be stronger glass and with liquids I make sure to leave A LOT of head space for expansion. Though I've had to learn that lesson the hard way a couple times. Ooops! I believe it's possible to pressure can soup stock to make it shelf stable, but I haven't ventured into that world yet. I'm still only just exploring water bath canning world. :)

Hi Wendy. I plan to use it for soup stock. I've been wanting to use my veggie scraps to make stock for ages and I had all this water left over from blanching my spinach, plus a lot of spinach and kale stalks so I let it all simmer for a bit, strained it into jars and called it stock. Hopefully it turns out!; June 23, 2010 at 7:37 AM
Liz said...: Completely off topic - we felt the earthquake here in Peterborough and read the centre is out your way. Hope you're okay.; June 23, 2010 at 2:31 PM
Amber said...: Hi Liz. All okay here. 5.5 quake really shook things up in my building at work but no damage or injury to anything or one. Things were really moving though, that's for sure (especially my heart rate!)
My mom felt it all the way in Barrie.
Hope all is well in P-Bo. Thanks!; June 23, 2010 at 3:15 PM
denimflyz said...: Love your photos Amber, just stunning.
I freeze my stock also, yup, learned the hard way about not enough headspace in a jar, but I have great luck with freezing stock, I also put stock in ice cube trays and freeze, then pop them out and put in jars also.
I also dehydrate a vegetable stock pulp, when I juice. I reuse the pulp, ( your own garden produce or an organic farmer you buy from at farmer's market, (as you use the peels and all), then place pulp in my dehydrators and spread it out and dry and viola, dry stock. I also grind it in my grinder for powdered stock in a shaker.
Love your blog.

Peaceful Regards,; August 12, 2010 at 9:35 AM

Raison d'etre

In 2008 I didn't buy anything new for the whole year. Food and basic toiletries (but not toilet paper) were the obvious exceptions (twice I broke my own rule). Used items were allowed, but I tried really hard to reduce consumption as much as possible.

I finished my year successfully, and along the way learned a lot about how much the world consumes, the waste we produce, sustainability, voluntary simplicity, climate change, peak oil, resource depletion, the water crisis, the food crisis, voting with your dollar, voting with your fork....

Now, I've transformed into a slightly nutty, very passionate, gardening, preserving, DIYing, simple living, nature loving, weed eating, backyard medicine making, urban homesteader, and I still don't use toilet paper!

With the help of the Awesomedudeguy (ADG), I'm continuing my exploration of living lightly and frugally, while increasing my self-sufficiency and resiliency, staying debt free, and preparing for a climate changed, resource depleted world, in uncertain economic times.

My nothing new restriction is lifted, but I continue to be a gentle, local consumer as much as possible.

My hope is that some of the information and resources I post about here will be helpful to others. Thanks so much for stopping by !

Yours in unstuffing,
Amber

"Forgive me if I never visit. I am from the fields, you know, and while quite at home with dandelion, make a sorry figure for the drawing room" ~Emily Dickinson

"I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that.... I might be master at last of a small house and a large garden, with very moderate conveniences joined to them, and there dedicate the remainder of my life to the culture of them and the study of nature." ~Abraham Cowley

"The laws of nature are under no obligation to cater to our culture’s emotionally charged fantasies of perpetual progress and limitless growth." ~John Michael Greer

"Sometimes we think we are too small to make a difference in this big world. Our actions seem insignificant in comparison to global issues such as climate change and population growth. However, the reality is that action on an individual level is exactly how big changes are made. Without individual and family sustainability, there’s no community sustainability. And without community sustainability, there’s no global sustainability. In fact, earth-wide change is absolutely impossible without individual change.
It really does come down to you and me."
~From Living Sustainably: It's Your Choice

"The universal conspiracy of the silent-assertion lie is hard at work always and everywhere, and always in the interest of a stupidity or a sham, never in the interest of a thing fine or respectable. Is it the most timid and shabby of all lies? It seems to have the look of it. For ages and ages it has mutely laboured in the interest of despotisms and aristocracies and chattel slaveries, and military slaveries, and religious slaveries, and has kept them alive; keeps them alive yet, here and there and yonder, all about the globe; and will go on keeping them alive until the silent-assertion lie retires from business--the silent assertion that nothing is going on which fair and intelligent men and women are aware of and are engaged by their duty to try to stop." ~Mark Twain

"It is not enough simply to abstain from theft...We must remember that nothing in this world really belongs to us. At best, we are merely borrowers. It is our duty, therefore, to borrow no more from the world than we absolutely need, and to make full and proper use of it. Taking more than we need, and wasting it, is a form of stealing from the rest of humankind."
~Commentary on Sutra 30 The Yoga Aphorisms of Patanjali