{"id":537,"date":"2020-09-25T13:06:01","date_gmt":"2020-09-25T20:06:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dontcrowdthepan.ca\/?p=537"},"modified":"2020-09-25T13:06:02","modified_gmt":"2020-09-25T20:06:02","slug":"every-year-about-this-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dontcrowdthepan.ca\/?p=537","title":{"rendered":"Every year, about this time"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" src=\"https:\/\/dontcrowdthepan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/2020_Food_Various-0129.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-538\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dontcrowdthepan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/2020_Food_Various-0129.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/dontcrowdthepan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/2020_Food_Various-0129-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dontcrowdthepan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/2020_Food_Various-0129-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dontcrowdthepan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/2020_Food_Various-0129-705x470.jpg 705w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption>40 jars out of 5 boxes of tomatoes. I was going for more pulp, but there is a little water in there&#8230; Live and learn<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">Every year, about this time (Late August, September) I do a couple of things: I read, <em>The Closing Down of Summer<\/em> by Alistair MacLeod. It&#8217;s a melancholy reminiscence of a hard-rock miner, touching on all kinds of themes, but the one that I hear is the simple notion of leaving a comfortable existence behind and having to get back to work. Or &#8216;Back to porridge&#8217; as my wife would say. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The other end-of-summer thing I do is I can some tomatoes. Yes, they&#8217;re actually in <em>jars<\/em> but somehow &#8216;jarring&#8217; tomatoes makes me think that the tomatoes are going to do something to surprise me. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ll detail the process in a later post, but for now I have 40 new jars of tomatoes to go downstairs. Throughout the year, whenever we need tomatoes, up a jar comes. That&#8217;s pizza sauce, chili, any soup or sauce that requires tomatoes &#8211; here they are. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ripe (actually, they sort of got away from me and I had about 10% of them spoil &#8211; never happened to me before), organic, perfect. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If I ran the numbers on the tomatoes, I would probably find that buying them by the case in actual cans would be more cost-effective. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But that&#8217;s not really the point. For me, the jars are a year&#8217;s worth of potential, waiting to be tapped. Like a pre-paid account at a resort or summer camp, I never have to worry about whether or not we have enough. There always seems to be another jar. Having a basement full of preserves is comforting. We&#8217;re ready as we can be for the coming winter. Well, we&#8217;re more ready now that the tomato cupboard is full. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every year, about this time (Late August, September) I do a couple of things: I read, The Closing Down of Summer by Alistair MacLeod. It&#8217;s a melancholy reminiscence of a hard-rock miner, touching on all kinds of themes, but the one that I hear is the simple notion of leaving a comfortable existence behind and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,13,53,3,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-ingredients","category-organic","category-personal","category-tried-and-true"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dontcrowdthepan.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dontcrowdthepan.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dontcrowdthepan.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dontcrowdthepan.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dontcrowdthepan.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=537"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dontcrowdthepan.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":539,"href":"https:\/\/dontcrowdthepan.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537\/revisions\/539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dontcrowdthepan.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dontcrowdthepan.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dontcrowdthepan.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}