It's catching up with me

[rabidsamfan]

I think I may have damaged my little finger. (On the left.) It hasn't felt right for days and now it just stays swollen. Not painful most of the time, but with occasional spangs to remind me that I am not invincible.

The new apartment is cold. After all that hot weather, the temps have dropped, and I haven't yet figured out the furnace. Thankgoodness for heated waterbeds. But my nose is sniffly, and my asthma has given me grief all day today. The first meal cooked on the new stove (chorizo, made by a local market) sprayed grease in every possible direction -- including to the ceiling -- and while it tasted good it's revisiting me now.



Rereading the journey south and realizing how very seldom Tolkien gives us any clue about what sort of foods they took along. Except for lembas of course. And so many of the meals were cold ones! I'm thinking deer jerky, pemmican, and whatever they might find in the way of apples and berries. Aragorn and Legolas had to have gone hunting or foraging some of the time. Either that or they had bags of holding. One pony just can't carry a month's worth of food for nine guys who are working very very hard. Especially not when four of them are hobbits -- and we know from the book that hobbits can eat a prodigious amount of food. Its not just a matter of six small meals here...

Does anyone know of a website where someone else might have done the work of researching hobbit/traveling cookery for me? I already have a possible source for hearth/campfire cookery, but I'm looking for what kinds of ingredients I can get away with.