Didn't get to bed until 2 a.m. this morning. This house and everyone in it like to stay up, drink wine and talk!. Last night we ate dinner at 10 p.m. then went out to town where there was a festival with more food and drink. It's going to be difficult keeping up as I cannot stay in bed past 7 a.m.. This morning they all got up between 9 and 12. Being Sunday and a day off, everyone sleeps as late as they want. I got up and had to listen to all 3 cats outside screaming for food. Couldn't find the food so gave them all milk, Then picked out a bike, went to town and went to church. They told me it was 3km but it was probably just 1 mi. not 2. Really easy ride into town.
Still don't know what to think of my job here. They do a real lot of food prep. From 10 a.m. until we sat down to eat at 2 p.m., Italo, Maria and myself worked in the kitchen preparing lunch. It's now 3:30 and the last dish just got washed and put away. We had 9 for lunch. Aside from the meal prep, Maria and Italo do a lot of putting food up in jars for later. Today while doing lunch we mixed up a bowl of sun dried cherry tomatoes, garlic, anchovies and oil. This will be used in the near future on bread. Italo made meatballs for lunch and the green beans I picked this morning and stuffed peppers. The ingredients that went into the meatballs and the stuffed peppers all were hand chopped into little bits. If I was in a hurry I probably would have put them all in the food processor and been done with it. The taste in the end would probably have been the same but they take a lot of pride in working the food not processing it. Stuffed peppers was with bread, tomatoes, onion, celery, basil and anchovies. They like anchovies and so do I. As condiments we had pickled eggplant and some of the sun dried tomato pesto. Dessert was peaches and apricots (both grown here).
After Wednesday there will be just Jonathan (23) from Belgium and myself for WWOOFers. Jonathan is staying the whole month of Sept.
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