home canned

after listening to the audiobook version of “animal, vegetable, miracle” over christmas travels, i’ve really come to value our nearby local-food store.  they actually deliver once a week to your home and have lots of locally produced, natural meats.  they also have other foods (besides meat)–some local and/or “home made” and others simply organic foods.  i placed an order this week and explored the non-meat selections they offer.  i ordered some local winter spinach, some celery, some eggs, and i noticed that they offered canned sauerkraut, so i thought i’d give it a try as well.  the delivery arrived this evening, just in time for my dinner (mr. happy stuff was out to dinner with out-of-town work friends).  i fried some sliced of smoked sausage, added some soy milk, cinnamon and sugar to some leftover rice and gave myself a generous helping of sauerkraut.  one of my very favorite dinner combinations.  just the right mix of sweet, salty, sour, mmmmmmouthwatering.  isn’t the tag label on the jar charming?  this is the way sauerkraut should taste–not like the stuff i’ve had to put up with from the grocery store for these last few years.  this is the real deal.