‘Tis but a banging of the door behind you, a blithesome step forward, and you are out of the old life and into the new!
Wind in the Willows.
I am sending this book out to my children. I need to read it again too.
Looks like we are going back to the masked days again. So disappointing, though personally I don’t care. I did not mind wearing a mask. It’s a matter of plodding through it. Though I seldom went anywhere but the mill; I had begun to grocery shop on the weekend again and up to Chicago selling flour. Being vaccinated gives one a certain amount of protection but I am incredibly worried about the other members of my American family who won’t even take this simple precaution. It is isolating to be the only one.
We all knew that the virus was here to stay. It’s just the level of infection and the severity of those infections we could have mitigated. Ah well. I just hope and pray they continue to keep it out of New Zealand.
The trees and gardens are growing wild. Which I kind of like.
This is the first year that our young apple trees are producing. The apples are small but ripening nicely. The tomatoes are ripening too and we have begun to make sauce. John grew a good crop of sweet corn. Today I will see if I have everything for corn relish.
Plus I am making loaves of bread with our Black Emmer flour. I will use This Recipe from my Bread Blog. Once I have baked with the Emmer a few more times I will have a recipe to share. It is pretty low in protein so in the end I will blend it I think.
And pasta with the new semolina. I will probably blend the semolina with the sifted Durum flour. I am having such fun watching the occasional Pasta Grannies on UTube. That is the best education! Thank you Char I always use the 100/1/1 specs – 100g flour, 1 egg, 1 teaspoon water. We have piles of eggs! (The water depends on the size of your eggs and whether you are using stone ground semolina. The stone ground seems to need a little more water and time).
Better get going then!!
Lots to do.
miss c
The Kitchen's Garden 
38 responses to “Change coming”
I think change coming is something we can count like the seasons but what sort of change, what sort of season… However, it pleases me to witness the seasons even if aspects of changes don’t seem comprehensible or absolute… none of us have ventured this way before and we’re all of us variously feeling our way out of the old life and into the new ♡
Miss C, so lovely to hear from the farm.
I’m in a lockdown area and waiting to move further southwest to a very small village; the biggest problem is getting sufficient food to self-isolate for two weeks. So, I have put off the move for this month.
I can appreciate your love affair with Shiela more now; it’s in your genetics! Mantuans have kept pigs since the 5th century.
The recipe for Torta Mantovana I emailed to you is just divine; I know you’re busy bread making when you have a moment for cake making it is lovely.
I will go and look for that email! My old email account is a terrible mess of junk now. If I can’t find it I will get you to resend it to cecilia@janiesmill.com – I am really looking forward to it. Nothing like a lovely cake. Thank you!
Beautiful to walk in your gardens which have so grown and blossomed from the first times I found you way back in the middle of Illinois. Regarding the Monster I and many of my doctor friends with whom I went thru’ medical school, have our own viewpoint – none of us are anti-vaxxers but all of those of us who can, without hurting self and/or others, are waiting for a couple of developments in the making. That mostly because of long term effects of the current available anticipated and feared. I have spoken to my doctors and they all agree taking where and how I live into account. I know very, very many such people who genuinely know and understand much and not too little. Over and out on the topic. However I simply cannot understand why people complain about masks. Way back . . . and I mean 50-60 years back . . . when I travelled to the East often multiple times a year, especially to Japan, you would have been regarded as the rudest person in the world if you did not wear a mask in the cold and flu season . . . big deal !!!! . . . meanwhile be well . . . be happy . . .
Pictures particularly lovely. Post always good
Nice
I love that book!
Now does provide a bit of time to step back and rediscover thing forgotten.
It is what it is. Each needs to evaluate their own philosophy and risks – given up trying to talk about pro or con vaccines – personal responsibility. Live your own life, I shall not bully or complain or fret about what you decide about your life. None of my business – even if I care a great deal, I shall only hope for the best for each.
We evaluated where we live, how little we actually go anywhere, age/health concerns and the three vaccines (which are everywhere you turn here- they even bribe people with all sorts of things to get vaccinated) The one shot best for us and knock on wood, no side effects….but we are old. For the young children? Many in the medical community/MDs in the family have some serious reservations and so do we. Masks for high risk areas for us, but difficult in this extreme/normal heat here. Children in masks? – far too much damage for them considering the risk.
My parents lived through the Spanish flu. I’ve heard their stories of it. People will live through this also. Hopefully with grace and kindness.
Take care and may peace and calm settle on you and yours
(Great pix as always)