Introducing the idea of hands-on enjoyment of the season through the life of Ms. Junmi Ikeda, who lives a self-sufficient life in Ehime. Fleeting seasons. Is there something happy that can only be done now? This time we are going to tell the story of the summer handmade snacks that make the family happy.
Hello. I am Junmi Ikeda, who enjoys a self-sufficient life in Ehime.
Finally, summer officially begins in July. Under the dazzling sun, my family's small fields gradually turned into jungles, which was a treasure trove of snacks.
In the yard, while I fantasize about the snacks I want to eat in the middle of summer, I plant (cultivate) in the spring, and countless seedlings are constantly growing, and every morning I see them, I am overjoyed.
I smiled and looked at its plump appearance and said, "It's so nice that I'm a gluttonous person!" Praise yourself like this, and then make a snack with energetic ingredients.
Of course, small tomatoes, cucumbers, small watermelons, melon princes, blackberries, etc., in the field or directly pinched, the taste of the material at the right time, the fruit will last for a while, so can not be fully matched with the harvested ingredients of the variations, and a few than the summer of the happy, taste delicious.
Of course, small tomatoes, cucumbers, small watermelons, prince cantaloupes, blackberries, etc. can be picked directly in the ground, although you can enjoy the taste of seasonal ingredients, but the fruit will last for a while, so if you can combine the harvested ingredients in several different ways, you can enjoy the summer more deliciously.
Watermelons, melons, and other vegetables picked in the yard
| Taste the small tomato preserves after thorough cooling
The tomatoes are delicious enough as long as they remain as they are, but when you've picked a lot of tomatoes, you'll want to change its flavor. At this time, it is common practice to taste it with preserves as a cold dessert.
The variety of tomatoes is too rich to grow. I've tried growing a lot, and my favorite is the thick and chewy mini variety "icon".
Because it ripens faster than large jade and middle jade, it is easy to cultivate less fruit fragmentation in the rain, and it is easy to satisfy the willfulness that wants to eat, and it is also a superior raw appearance (icon LOVE) that is not easy to crush the flesh of the fruit with hot water.
In the hot summer, the refreshing and sweet preserves can be eaten casually, and it is a refreshing snack in my house. Did it several times in the middle of summer.
If you get tired of eating it, it becomes tomato jelly, tomato pizza, etc.
Cook the cooked tomatoes slightly in cold water and sugar, then put them in a bottle and put them in the refrigerator along with the soup. It is best to eat after cooling.
| Small watermelons and melons picked in small fields
The whole family loves the little jade watermelon and the prince melon. Like small tomatoes, "small balls" are easier to cultivate than "big balls", and if they go well, they can harvest about 5 seedlings.
Small round balls, with pillars can be cultivated vertically, it is also easy to put into the refrigerator, and it is also just right to eat, impeccable.
Watermelons are planted one seedling each for "red" and "yellow", and when they first start planting, they are planted side by side, and the flesh becomes a faint gradient of red and yellow due to the pollination mixed together.
From this interesting experience, I learned to "carefully consider the planting location before planting".
If you cut it very thinly, your hand will easily stick out
It's small, but it's stuffed inside. Compared to the big and beautiful cantaloupe used for gifts, it is usually eaten just right. It is characterized by a mild sweetness
An unforgettable harvest from first farming. Small jade watermelon hybrid of red and yellow. Sweet and refreshing, this one was delicious.
| Homemade French fries with salt
The representative of my family's salty snacks is French fries. Because it is delicious and rich in salt, it is often made in the hot summer. My son loves to dig potatoes and eat potatoes.
It was also well received among his son's friends and captured the appetite of the cute boys. I shouted "There's another bowl", and she came down from the 2nd floor and saw her again. Huh.
It's almost time to graduate from the crazy salinity of the last fixed use, try to make an original vanilla salinity with the vanilla in the yard. The so-called gluttony is what it means.
Cutting the potatoes with skin into small pieces, frying them in oil, and sprinkling them with crazy salt is just that simple french fries.
| Blackberries harvested in a one-handed pan
Next up are the sweet and sour blackberries. The output is increasing year by year, and one pot can be harvested at a time.
Of course, you can eat it directly, but because you want to pick it before you drop it, even if the sour taste is very heavy, you will pick something that has been dyed, and you can also make a soft fruit and expand various flavors.
It can be placed on yogurt, on crepes with cream and chocolate, or sandwiched in cold bread. We recommend the rich summer blackberry sauce.
Why use a pot to harvest it, because "if you basket it will be stained with juice color that is not easy to fall off", "you can start cooking immediately".
The steps to make a cold dish are: wash it with running water, remove the fine dirt (white enamel is recommended, it is easy to see the dirt) → drain the water→ put it back in the pot, add sugar, cook to your favorite degree→ remove the seeds with bamboo skewers.
My family, which likes to control sweetness, basically sets the amount of sugar at 10%. If you want to add sweetness according to the mood at the time, you can add honey, so you don't have to think deeply about each ingredient. Ehime's honey is delicious.
On this day, we harvested about 600 grams.
The countless small, hard seeds that remain in the mouth are removed by filtering with a slightly coarser filter.
A simple snack served with plain yogurt makes it a classic for midsummer breakfasts
Blackberries continue to ripen. The harvest lasted until September.
A one-handed pot that appears in BlackBerry, it is a favorite almost every day. Because it is dangerous for the handle to loosen, please ask your husband to repair it.
Picking out the wood that looked good from the firewood stored in the yard was done quickly.
It can be repaired with just one short branch, and the impact of the fish scales peeling off from the eyes. So, can such a tool be self-sufficient, well (looking at the mountain). There is "rejoicing" everywhere, what to do (calm down).
The end was handmade beeswax extracted from a beehive on the mountain, which was borrowed from a neighbor. Compared with the time of new purchase, the repaired one has more personality.
Lovely life tools one more, happy.
Cut, cut, made by the husband himself. If you repair it yourself, you can make it to your favorite length and adapt it well to your hands
Also enjoy watching the dexterous husband DIY time
Finally with the neighbor's homemade beeswax
(Junmi Ikeda)
Mountaineers are living a self-sufficient life with their families in Ehime, and she happily posts photos of herself on Instagram.
Instagram: @junmiikeda