Yes. Thyme, and a teeny bit of sage is nice. When we were first married and poor, I used to make steamed yellow squash and onions sauteed with olive oil and season them a little and add them to cooked brown rice and put it all in a heavy black skillet with a little more olive oil and heat it on high, turning it with a spatula after the rice kind of got a brown crust, and that would be the meal, with yoghurt I made myself with mostly powered skim milk and maybe a salad.
In my yoghurt-making-with-powered-skim-milk days, we had no running water in the winter and I washed the baby's diapers in water I brought in and heated on the woodstove. Where I got the water from was a stream that ran out behind this big old farmhouse in Woodstock (actually Mt. Pleasant, near Woodstock) we were staying in at the time. I would break the ice on the stream, draw the water, chop down a tree or chop up fallen trees for the wood for a fire in the woodstove so I could heat the water.
Same thing for water for a bath.
In the summer, there was running water, but it was cold.
Oddly enough, we were perfectly happy. |
