So I really don’t mind hunting for my prey and eating meat and to eat food the considered traditional way. But in my opinion it’s always good to be not too reliant on one thing and to widen your possibilities. And it occurred to me that in these last few weeks Al did not seem to digest the fabulous baked goods of our dear harf so well. So I thought of a way to have a nice Burger for him with what I could find on the local market. The end result is a Portobello Burgerbun with a red and black bean patty, some good tomato, avocado and a soft blue cheese with homemade ketchup, bbq sauce and as a nice twist some good chilli jam.
The chilli jam is always a long lasting “nice to have” to pep up your sweet and savory food.
The things I used to balance out the bbq sauce … I have to say the smokehead really gave it the nicest twist. Mjam
So lets write it down here The Meowjito will at one point be THE summerdrink … but noone will know it was invented by a scrubby Cat working at a Tavern missing home….
Make dishes with Catnip they said! Dishes with catnip they get.
So to answer the question how does catnip taste to humans. For sure not as wonderful and elating as it does to me and my fello Tabaxi friends! But it still does have a nice mint note and subtle cinnamony herbal flavours. So it fits into a lot of foods. For example this Tabuleh.
First cook the Quinoa … totally oversalt the quinoa … be forced to cook even more Quinoa mix the all of it together and get a perfectly salted quinoa mush. Then chop and grill some aubergine and zucchini and add them to the quinoa. Add a lot of finely chopped catnip and cilantro. give it some lime juice and olive oil . Mix in chopped tomatoes, cucumber, red onion and dates. Then grill some peach and coconut flakes add them to the whole mush and add a little cinnamon to taste. Summerly freshly yummness.
When I first met this bunch of crazy lads, it was down in some strange ruins, Sou Far handed me Catnip! it was the dried herbs but ohhhhh the smell!! I know that normal humans can not smell the herbal freshness heaven , that it is. But let me tell you No smell in the world makes you feel happier or saver. But it made me wonder if he ever traveled my homes Woodlands, because you don’t just come by some catnip everywhere.
My Ma made the best Mole Verde in our Hunt. She always added a lot of Catnip and Cicely and a lot of previously charred Pimentos and Salt Tomatos. Soooo yummy! If I ever come by some fresh catnip I will prepare it for Sou Far… he seems a little bit stranger lately.
I fear my dream of finding a second family enjoying the wilds, hunting for game and collecting whatever nature offers us, seems to never find fullfillment with my current companions. Most of them prefere the convenience and confinement of a city. Do not mistake me, to me everyone of them is an amazing riddle that I seem to not be able to solve jet and I look forward to learn more about them. But it makes me miss the assurance and lightness in beeing yourself, that a family gives you, so much … Like how my Grams always took me to the side and showed me some little secrets or helped me prank my Brothers.
Just take that one time, when Dhyib and Faras mocked me about not beeing able to stealth my way up to this rabbit at a hunt…. “Little Kuhr is such a cluz! be happy that you are dads little girl, cause you will never be a hunter!” That night she sat with me and showed me how to make these two kinds of green pastes … really delicious and garlicy. But whilest the one made with the bears garlic made the smell ooze out of your fur the next day, the one with the hedge garlic did not. So the evening before our next hunt I grilled everyone some nice fish and greens and I seasoned it with green paste … Just that I gave my brothers the bears paste … and they ate quiet a lot. Come the hunt. I caught myself a white-tail and for some magical reasons my brothers did not even manage to hunt themselfs a slow toad. I brought my trophy back to the tribe and had a good chuckle on my brothers. They could never quiet figure out how their hunting luck could be so bad from that day on. Of course I eventually stopped making them smell like a walking Yuan Ti repellant. But they never made fun of my hunting mishaps again. Till this day the wide grin on Grams face, whenever they fuzzed about how the animals always seemed to magicially know they where there and run off, makes me smile.
A Ranger always manages to find food and I fur suuure never starve. “munch .. munch” But let me tell you spring is the best time if you want to experiment with the things, that nature presents you. “munch .. munch” Coughwort for one is obviously always a feast for the eyes, “munch” but a dressing made out of it’s stems “munch munch munch munch … munch munch” fits the little puffs filled with goatcheese and some salmon just perfectly.
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