7 Delicious lunch or discussion on the road (1/2)

In my time, these dried peaches were the sea, that is, a lot. We ourselves, living in a house on the ground, harvested peaches, dried them, because the harvests were very large. So that the peaches did not disappear, we dried them on the roof under the sun. It turned out two bags of 50 kg each. They were not for sale, but for food.

At that time, some 50 years ago, we didn't have iPhones or TVs at home, only radio and only three channels on it.

What was to do? We sat on the ”map” is such a large wooden platform, a height of a couple of dozen centimeters to one and a half meters, on three sides of which the sides. On the fourth side of the staircase, so that you can climb the platform.

A carpet was laid on the platform, there were quilts on three sides, and in the middle was a small table, low, on which there was a tablecloth and on it tea, bread, nuts and dried fruits. In particular, we ate these dried peaches, as they say, like cookies, one after another.

Then there was little sugar, it was expensive and it was difficult to get it. After the war years of hunger. What do you want? So we ate fruit and dried fruit as sweets, like dessert.

They played backgammon and checkers, ate dry peaches, and in the evening they poured five or six pieces of water into their bowl. In the morning they drank this infusion, it helped to make the heart work well, the nerves and immunity were good. At the time of influenza epidemics, we drank this infusion and never got sick! Well, then the urban environment was better, there was not so much building dust, there were more trees, and the water from the city canals could be drunk without fear. Now, of course, this is not done.

I still remember a time when in the 40s tigers roamed in the reeds near our city ... but in 1956 they shot the last of them ... time runs so quickly.

Yesterday there were still tigers and radio, but today they are actually hand-held computers and can be contacted via the Internet with the whole world!

Technology is changing the world and people. Now almost nobody remembers dried peach.

I got to the bazaar in the old town, and there is a lot of dried fruit, but there is almost no peach.

I found the guys from the prefecture, they were selling their dry fruit in the city ... they ran off somewhere, came running, brought dry peaches. They say like honey, they like cookies, eat them easily, they are sweet! Quality is great! But in fact?

When I approached the place where dry peaches were selling medium-quality, another grandmother said, and I have selected ones, for $ 3.5 per 1 kg. I looked, really! Selected, no rotten or black, all bright! So I tell her, like if you make the price normal, if you agree to a discount, I will buy 3 kg at once! Well, my grandmother, hesitated, hesitated, and agreed to the price of $ 3, and I broke it for $ 2 80 cents!

Here at the bazaar, the main rule is to first go around the whole market, find out the prices, and then you can bargain! Shooting down the price, it's nice for everyone and the merchant, it's not boring for me, either, to the buyer, I will give myself a couple of cents, this is real savings! Only fools immediately buy goods, they do not know the price of their money!

Why buy more expensive if you can buy cheaper ?!

Now I drink compote from dry peaches, they also drive stones with sand from the body, make the skin shiny, remove toxins from the body and that the main thing they renew blood! I'm an old man, so we need new blood to work hard, I'm a breadwinner, helping my grandchildren with money. So you need to protect health!

Dara, I thought, here comes the old man, and that's how you need to be able to live! He was to talk with relatives and launch an online organic food store. During this short period of time, he was not only connected with the opening of only one store, but also of other great things. This is not only a new business, but also a real help to people.

As his beloved Grandmother Aba Bie said, do good and throw it into the water, people will not know, the fish will know! In a difficult moment, it will help you, and if you do evil things, you will go to the bottom in difficult minutes.

Take a branch out of the way, feed a hungry person, simplify a person's life, give him a job if you can, it will affect your soul, well, or atheist conscience. That is, choosing the road ”Zhèngzhí de zhàngfū” and not the way ”Xiāo rén”.

Then you will win in two worlds!

Well, in the genus Dara were merchants and traders. He knew that you should not miss such a chance!

Soon they will drive up, to Aunt Firuzeh's house, he will need to be discussed with relatives, what he managed to achieve in a short period of time.

This is in addition to the already agreed Internet shop of organic food, the purchase of a domain, also a store on the ground, a small hydroelectric station, the purchase of direct contracts with village farmers, a drone with a point farming program, the purchase of old agricultural equipment, mini plants for processing fruits and berries and their sublimation.

Including bringing to mind the farm and the house where he will now live. Machine for peeling nuts and seeds. Purchase of seeds, fertilizers, payment of all expenses for obtaining permits, examinations, certificates and certificates. Commissioning activities. Construction of warehouses, payment services Baraz.

Purchase of a minibus, with its tuning for subsequent delivery of products. Packing equipment for pastila, payment of utility costs and other expenses. More and assistance to the village with the tourism business and receiving income from 55 percent of the first year until the costs paid off, and after a stable 20 percent a year. True money! In the neighboring area, the cost of developing tourism paid off in just eight months.

I still have working capital left 25,340 dollars. Tourist routes, for example, 5 days, will cost $ 200, plus $ 100 transport, $ 40 per night in a guest house, food is not included in the price. The total cost of such a trip will be from $ 400, an economy class option to $ 700 for a VIP. You can stop for example not in the house, but in the yard in a tent, it will be worth $ 5 a day.

The price includes a master class on cooking, a tour of the village, a tour of the gorge with a tour of the sights - the ruins of a caravanserai, fortress, ancient gardens, rock paintings.

You can create new routes and create new excursions. At the same time, of course, without forgetting travel insurance.

This project will not only provide local people with work, but it also runs under the state program, which means we can get additional financial resources that will not be taxed.

What we have to discuss with relatives is the range of the online store, we have already talked about this three times, but now in the near approximation with updated details, such as the purchase price, packing weight, well, you can entrust the design to Arash. He knows a lot about it.

1) This is the candy ”Karakot” - fruit and berry, clean, organic dessert. From black currant, gooseberry, raspberry, sea buckthorn, apples and pears. Combined raspberry pastille with splashes of pumpkin and sunflower seeds, pear pastilles with almonds, apples pastilles with pistachio and walnuts. A mixture of marshmallow of apple and sea buckthorn, pear and mint.

2) Pastela from apple with protein.

3) Mulberry flour.

4) Peeled walnuts local variety, it has a rich taste and sweetness, sweet almonds, pistachio, pumpkin seeds, watermelon, melons, sunflower.

5) Dry fruits - persimmon, apricot, peach, grape, hashtak, raspberry, black currant, plum, cherry, mulberry.

6) Beckmes and Yurchal from mulberry, pear, grape, black currant, persimmon.

7) Sumalak.

8) Amber sugar.

9) Carrot jam with honey

We will pack pastila in two versions, 50 grams in bags and 300 grams of assorted pastes in boxes. And we will sell the first type for 3 dollars, and the second 20 dollars as a gift.

The purchase price, I think, will not be 6.5 dollars but only 5.5. Baraz will convince the villagers, since we invest in them well, and then as we pay for the expenses, we will make the purchase price even 50 cents more. We will sell 1 kg at a price of 40 to 60 dollars. And then we'll see how the first sales will go.

Dried berries will be packed in 100 grams, and the price will be 50-70 cents. Make an emphasis on their use in desserts and baking. And also that they have a healing effect, providing them with drillings about calories, content, as well as beneficial properties and contraindications.

Sunflower seeds peeled 200 grams 70 cents.

Almonds I think it is better to sell peeled, in 100 gram packs, the price for 2 dollars. Marzipan mass, for 1 kg - 8 dollars, three dollars lower than the market price.

Pistachios and marzipan from it 1 kg - 15 dollars. Pistachios peeled in 100 gram packs for $ 3.

Flour from a mulberry - for 500 grams - 6 dollars.

Bexes jar in 450 ml - 5 dollars, Irchal - 7 dollars. It should be recommended as a useful bio-supplement.

Sumalyak distribute free of charge as a marketing move on March 21! And so sell 1 liter jar for $ 4.

Yantak sugar 500 grams at 10 dollars.

Jams in jars of 500 ml to sell at a price of 2 dollars.

In the spring, we will sell pumpkins and whips, but so far the price has not been determined.

You can give regular customers trips to the village to visit tourist attractions for the whole family or for three people with a payment of 20 percent. 50 percent (Baraz, laughed, it's like union tickets) or for free!

Well, one of the possible options to attract tourists to the village, and to us customers. You can, for example, like in Japan, conduct a lottery in our stores, goods, or a trip to the mountains for 5 days for those who fill out a coupon of purchases in our two stores.

Also to conduct master classes for teaching cooking, some desserts in the village, or to teach new methods of spot planting on your farm. By the way, you can become a company representative in our city, you will have 30 percent of all sales!

We can also sell tickets to the local history museum, apply for three grants, one with a fund of $ 50,000, the other at $ 15,000 and a third at $ 500,000, for the development of infrastructure in the countryside and the creation of new jobs with the improvement of the welfare of rural residents.

The first two grants from the state, and the last international fund. You can try, as they say, for our demand, they don't beat us, so it's tedious to make efforts to achieve something. If we win a grant, it will not help the village either. It may even be an example for other mountain villages, including flatlands, if one or another caravan routes passed along their edges.

They passed, here we can attract, students of historians. So they practice, as they say so much, that science is connected with education, and that, in turn, with production. Then the practical experience of using knowledge and additional perk. Not just a term paper, but work that will bring the village new tourist routes, and therefore money for the development of the village and the residents themselves.

There are many ideas, but no one hears them and so we could help everyone, themselves, the village, the students and the country. Creating new jobs! Everyone would be fine. But this is all possible in the future. Now we have our own tasks in the development of our money and the beginning of our business.

In two and a half months, we will commission our store on the ground. Each of us will have its own scope of work, which we will have to do.

Two drove into the city, by the time they had time to meet with Aunt Firouzeh ...

… Doorbell.

Oh, Dara, Baraz, you just arrived in time for dinner, talk about the affairs at the table,

Quickly go wash your hands ...

From the living room came the cheerful hubbub of relatives and the amazing smells of dishes ...

Aunt Firouzeh cooked the famous steam rolls with lamb and pumpkin. In one double boiler there are at least four levels. On the first, you can steam the roll with meat, the second roll with greens, on the third roll with pumpkin, on the fourth roll with carrots. It turns out very tasty. This is also a borrowing technology of cooking from the Chinese. The Silk Road, undoubtedly, enriches not only cultural exchanges, but also culinary, makes food more, richer, brighter, more interesting.

Dara, I thought, and in our region there are borrowings from the Chinese, from the Koreans, and from the Blue Horde, the Mongols ... the food becomes more diverse. But we have not lost our culinary culture, both nomads and farmers!

The recipe is surprisingly simple. Wheat flour, one egg, a little salt, vegetable oil, water, a pound of meat — mutton, a pound of pumpkin, a pound of carrot, a gram of 300–400 greens (the same one that was for filling pies). Knead the dough. For this flour to pass through a sieve, to form a small hill in the center to make a notch, where to pour the water mixed in advance, egg, vegetable oil and salt. Knead the dough tightly. Knead until it becomes elastic, cover with gauze and let stand for a bit.

Prepare minced meat with Chinese cabbage, pumpkin can be mixed with onions, after passing it through a grater, also in relation to carrots.

Sprinkle the table lightly with flour and thinly roll out the dough. Put the stuffing on the dough, evenly spreading it over the rolled dough. Wrap the roll, pinch the edges. Grease steamer sheets with oil. Post roll. By layers. Put in a steamer for meat 45 minutes will be just right, but for greens, carrots and pumpkins is enough for 25 minutes.

Usually we serve it with fresh chopped greens, yogurt, a hearty dish. Although of course not in the line of healthy nutrition. But once every six months, you can break the diet a little.

So over, steamed, baked, boiled is the main methods of healthy eating. Warm salads, low oil, no spices, salt, sugar. But with salt, everything is not so categorical, the right amount is quite a person receives from ordinary food, such as molding bread. So pour additional portions of salt is not necessary.

Humanity simply zazhralas, ceased to see that it violates the norms of its nutrition, which already lead to direct harm to their health. Tipping the amount of salt and sugar in many industrial and homemade dishes, pastries, compotes, preserves. Why do you need so much sugar? To spoil your gums and teeth? Increase the risk of diabetes? It's worth it? Not! This is actually voluntary harm to your health!

But to eat such a steamed roll, after hard physical work, very well, it makes up for lost energy. After all, before the exercise was stronger, so the food was such as to replenish the energy expended. And then, the man, became more civilized, began to sit in the office, where the costs of physical strength were minimal, and more mental.

Therefore, the traditional food, which was designed for heavy loads, was not suitable for office work. It was necessary to develop new concepts of healthy nutrition, for new tasks. Such studies were conducted in the 70s of the last century. So there is a concept of Harris-Benedict, how many calories you need per day, so that a person can save energy and not gain weight. Of course, with sedentary work, physical exertion is also needed, if there is no opportunity to work out in the gym (and there are none, due to low wages), then there is a kitchen garden, walking around the city, walking no less than 5-10 km a day, for 3-4 days in Week.

In another system, the rates of energy consumption in the implementation of labor activity, by age, sex, labor activity, place of residence, village, village, small town, large city, were assessed. So office employees in the age category from 18 to 40 years old had three levels of activity - low, medium, high, and accordingly for a low 2400 - 2600 calories, for an average of 2600 - 2800, for a high 3000 - 3200.

It is interesting, I thought, Dara in different countries, his own method of calculation ... Although Harris-Benedict offered his idea back in 1918 ...

Well, I remember how an endocrinologist told you at 22, for the first time diabetes mellitus, you need to lose weight, stop eating sweet, salty, bitter, pickles, canned goods, pastries, a full diet. Medicines and at least 10 km a day! Small portions, you need to eat 5-6 times a day. Do you want to eat?

Then, just drink more! Now diabetes, younger, before 22 years would be a shock, and now diabetes is already in children aged 12-14 years. And all of the increased stress, malnutrition, use of sweet soda. Moreover, the daily dose of 148 ml and drink the same bottles of 1.5-2 liters per day, and even the same at night! Yes, they eat at night too, although it is impossible to eat already after 6-7 in the evening!

In baking a lot of trash, which the body can not digest, it means goes to fat, slags and toxins accumulate. Aqua fish from farms, it means fish with growth harmonies, antibiotics. Now in the world, the flu constantly undergoes mutations, and here you eat, fish with antibiotics and your body loses its immunity once, and two it spoils the intestinal microflora, the risk of getting sick higher and higher. Eat vegetables and fruits, and they are full of pesticides, GMOs ... and this is not the whole list, not all supermarkets check their products for the presence of radionuclides and heavy metals in them. I'm not saying, on this background, about gluten bread.

Gluten is an adhesive substance that is part of the protein of wheat, cereals. It is contained in all pastries, pasta, bread, sauces. Gluten harm is a quick weight gain. The stomach suffers, its functions are disturbed, the condition of the skin and the inner integuments of the body worsens. Other horrors.

Modern food is all horror if a person would study this question his hair would stand on his head ... but from him, a person does not have time to learn how to live longer without illnesses.

But here such a trick, really healthy writing without chemistry, only rich people can afford, well, the poor can only reduce the risks and reduce the negative burden, this applies to those who are aware of this. But there are those who would just eat, so as not to starve.

With low pensions, salaries, after the obligatory payments for utilities and expensive medicines, money from this category of poor citizens does not even have a choice about healthy food. Here is such an amazing fact, on the one hand, the world, civilization, gets new knowledge, and on the other hand, people have no opportunity to change something ... while others have no interest in studying healthy eating.

Well, what about the sad, let's eat! And already in the course of the first call, on the second we'll talk about our affairs. As for the last three days, I can't do anything about my farm. It is so interesting and exciting!

Although this is the beginning of his business, it turned out to be no less surprising, so many new things that his eyes diverge. That can be and this! I don't understand these hedonists who spend money on all sorts of garbage ... like a haircut for $ 100, buying some pictures for millions of dollars, they could be more beneficial for the country and society if they created new businesses, created new jobs yourself at home. They helped their fellow countrymen, and that there being cool in a foreign land is of little use. You have to be cool in your homeland, and then you can shine in overseas countries.

Hey, Dara, what did you shut up! With such a thoughtful face, eating delicious food, it will be dangerous to turn the bowels upside down!

Better tell me what you could achieve in the village? How was it all there?

Aah, Dara came back to himself, otherwise he left for his world ... but you need to live in ours!

Everyone laughed!

...

Abba Bie, during a meal together, told an old story about her father and mother. The fact that his father was silent, but now my mother told me that in his youth his father was more talkative. He came from a noble family, but once a very long time ago, his ancestor Dara, like you, my grandson, lost one important thing and his whole family was exiled to the village ”Terrible Poverty, when you hear right away,” his clan lived in the village, then they pardoned him again and took him back to the principality for responsible work, but every century the fate of their predecessors was repeated. So they darted from the capital of the principality to the village.

That thing had unique properties, could give strength, intelligence, vigilance, accuracy ...

Aah ... is it like a donkey, which, if you pull it by the tail, could spit gold coins out of your mouth? Or tablecloths?

But here, apparently, this little thing lacked a security system and two of the bag with truncheons and a sword that cut the heads of everyone ... Arash noticed with a laugh ...

To which they all for shicking, how he dared to interrupt the elder, this is what programming brings, completely lost fear, the precepts of ancestors does not respect, does not honor the older ones.

Arash fell silent, embarrassed, only the tips of his ears turned red. He really forgot ... he is not in his student group, but among the elders ... oh, at home his father will scold!

Grandma, just smiled, patted Arash through her hair and continued ...

So that little thing could awaken in a man his hidden capabilities that were laid in him from birth, probably written in his genes, I think so!

He became almost that superhero, though for a very short time. That thing if it was connected with another one from the same series, then it could increase these possibilities 10 times.

What is interesting, centuries passed, and on the spot, that village, our country house later appeared, which is even more interesting, your great-grandfather Mirzo Bobo, often said that he feels the power of this thing, it is somewhere nearby. But he could not find her ... and it's a pity, now we'd be richer!

- Money is not happiness, Grandma! In their numbers, Arash laughed again and immediately received a cuff from his elder brother. He shut up again.

Grandma looked at him disapprovingly!

Praviz, noticed that you need to be grateful for what we have, for what we do not have!

This was the wisdom of the family, which passed on more than one generation!