The weekly trek from Jeziorki to Jakubowizna is made with a recyclable bag of groceries to keep me fed from Friday to Monday evening. A staple on the działka is sausage stew, variations of which provide nourishment and keep the stomach full.
The carbohydrate base is either chickpea or lentil; an alternative is Melvit's Trendy Lunch, a boil-in-the-bag mixture of lentils, bulgur wheat and pearl barley. This takes longer to prepare, needing a separate 15 minutes before joining the sausage.
Vitamin C comes in the form of cherry tomatoes (eight per portion) and spinach, which is put in at the same time as the sausage goes in. Flavour is added - fresh lime juice, and one piri piri chilli pepper. A fillet or three of anchovy from the jar can also be added; another flavouring ingredient I often use is the rind of a Parmesan cheese, cut into tiny cubes. Too hard to eat, but when cooked it softens to a chewy consistency and imparts a deep savoury flavour.
Eaten from bowls rather than plates, it sets one up for a few hours hard labour out on the land!
The cooker has gas rings, gas comes from a LPG container, which is now well into its second summer.
The loaf of bread (chleb górski, from Lidl) on a Friday is still fit for eating on Monday, providing it's toasted. Again, sausage slices well, with some Parmesan cheese sliced and some slices of cherry tomato, a fine zapiekanka can be made for breakfast.
On another note - suitably nourished, I venture forth for a stroll, long past sunset, this evening and last night. The sky is clear, the air smells of high summer, fecund, ripe; the stars are up there and I am reminded of such Augusts in Stella-Plage, in France. At such moments, I feel the direct connection between myself and the Eternal and Infinite.
This time last year:
Proper summer in Warsaw
This time two years ago:
Poland's trains failing in the heat
This time three years ago:
"Learn from your mystics is my only advice"
This time four years ago:
Out where the pines grow wild and tall
This time seven years ago:
Behold and See (part V) - short story
This time eight years ago:
Syrenki in Warsaw
This time nine years ago:
What's the Polish for 'impostor'?
This time ten years ago:
Running with the storm on the road to Mamrotowo
This time 12 years ago:
St Pancras Station - new gateway to London
This time 13 years ago:
Mountains or sea? North Wales has them both
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