Colour spelt with a ‘u’ – colour not color. Many words in American have ‘u’ removed. But English travels and like all languages is endlessly evolving. We can choose our spelling!
The chickens laid us an egg yesterday so I made gnocchi.
I am going to work and work on my food photography while I am in California. I am attracted to so many different genres. But the dark moody look is my favorite so far. Now all I have to do is work out how to get what is in my minds eye onto the screen.
Gnocchi
1 cup Janies Mill Sifted Durum Flour. 1 cup boiled, drained cooled ( a little) and riced potato. 1 beaten fresh egg.
Roll into long fingers. Cut into tiny pillows. Fork. Boil and run across hot salted butter.
Do not over mix/knead. Do not let the potato fool all the way. Rest only about 15 minutes then boil.
Grief does not go away. But it can settle. We allow it a space to reside where it can belong but not cloud our days. Like a sad neighbour who you nod to as you leave your porch. We allow loss to find itself a place to live in our world. We live with grief. We don’t ‘get over it’.
Anyway. Things are moving apace. It is cold but not too bad. Already half way through January. My remote work begins on February 14th. So much to do. So exciting. There will be lots of baking, recipe development, pictures, articles on baking and flour and always my customer service and shipping. While traveling!
It is not an easy ask ( of myself) however I am determined to make the work work.
I am older now and older women have trouble staying still in one place. We need to move or we get into trouble. The moment I decided to find a way to take my work on the road my heart, that had been booming at me to ‘get a wriggle on’ ( Dads words), settled back into place and pace. My breathing slowed – I can see ahead again. I am on a mission.
I read Wild ( thank you for the recommendation) then watched the movie and as usual the book was better.
I am off out into the cold to remake the pigs bed and throw a bale of good hay into the chook house. The door is frozen open ( which is part of the reason they are not laying in the right place) so they are merrily roaming wild.
I hope you all have a great week!
Cecilia
The Kitchen's Garden 
48 responses to “LETTING COLOUR IN”
My husband went into the kitchen at 2 a.m. this morning, picked up the box of crackers and someone tiny and brown hopped out and zipped away. Evidence of a cracker pitifully nibbled left behind. I don’t know what to do!
If I call an exterminator he’ll have a fit because I feed nuts to the tree squirrels outside.
From a person that’s living in grief, I loved this blog…
EVERYTHING, each paragraph, had me wanting more..
SIMPLY AMAZING…
I am so sorry – I did not see this comment until now – you were sent to comment purgatory! Pop in again!
I’m in the STILL state of grief, I absolutely loved this blog….
Really blew me away…
Great writing….
That is great to hear. Thank you so much. Learning to live next to sorrow is so much easier than fighting to get over it. The old fashioned mourning periods certainly served a purpose. I wonder when society decided to do away with a mourning period all dressed in black.
This poet, Rosemerry Trommer, posts a poem a day, and the poem today reflects on your writing about grief yesterday. https://ahundredfallingveils.com/.
Sending you big hugs. xoxo
Love your words. I often say I put my grief and sorrow in small cupboards in my psyche and occasionally I open a cabinet and oops, there is that emotion. I work at tucking that back in and move on down the road, but I know I’ll visit it again someday. Losing Mom, my Aunt, my Grandmother -> those are the huge ones. The very large cabinets.
Much love, P
I like to read the book first and usually prefer them. Sometimes the movies are good “adaptions”, but I always think it’s just other peoples perceptions of a book I’ve already built a vivid version of … if that ramble makes sense lol
At the same time, if I read the book second it usually colours my own imagination and picturing of it. So I seldom read a book after I’ve watched a movie 🤔
That gnocchi looks delicious!
Actually, that loaf looks even more delicious than the gnocchi! 🤤
Makes perfect sense to me!
Wow, such a nice picture you have captured. The images look very vivid and alive. Very sharp captured I must say. Surroundings are also very suitable with these photos. Good work. Please keep going.
And a great week to you Celi .. thanks for the recipe and the wonderful photos!