“Each of us, when our day’s work is done, must seek our ideal,
whether it be love or pinochle or lobster à la Newburg,
or the sweet silence of the musty bookshelves.”
O. Henry
It’s been a Lots Of Work To Do sort of week. Bottle-feeding our orphaned baby goats, planting winter crops, writing, cooking, photographing, more writing, and collecting the last of the Autumn harvest.
It’s good work, satisfying work, but boy am I glad to reach the end of each day and climb into bed and get cozy under the blankets with a good story.
One of the good things about cooking and photographing for a writing assignment is that Bear and I have heaps to eat at the end of it. Tonight we got to tuck into all sorts of nibble-y bites, including far too many pretzels dunked in a roasted garlic yogurt dip. It sure hit the spot after getting back inside from doing chores in the cold Autumn wind.
Bear and I continue to plug along writing our medieval cookbook. Today we baked spelt bread rolls over the campfire and they turned out beautifully. We were so excited. 🙂 Tomorrow I get back to writing and cooking for the Spices section. I love seeing whole spices, like this mace, that I’ve only seen in powdered form before. The history of food is so fascinating to me, and I can’t wait to see this book come together.
Now it’s time for me to retreat to the “sweet silence of the musty bookshelves.”
What is the best book you’ve read recently?
Wow, you have been busy with writing and food…food through the ages! 🙂 It all looks fabulous as usual and great that you have so many goodies to eat all the time. 😉
Julia
It really is food through the ages, @turkeysforlife:disqus 🙂 Olde English and Medieval and bits and bobs from all over. 🙂
I too was surprised the first time I bought ‘whole’ mace. It took me forever to figure out how to get it fully smooshed in the mortar. 🙂 That meal would suit me just fine after a long day of hard work. Well done! I want one of those rolls, please!
Fully smooshed made me grin, @OrgasmicChef:disqus. 🙂 I confess I cheat a bit and use my spice mill. I would happily share a roll with you, but Bear just ate the last one. Next batch! 🙂
What a delicious end to a period of solid work! Lovely!
Thank you, @liz_posmyk:disqus xo
Fun times Krista! My favorite book this year has been Dirty Life-A journey to hard core farming (laugh). After reading it I decided all I really wanted was a garden and chickens 🙂
Oh wow, Velva, that book sounds intense. 🙂 Hard core farming is not our cup of tea either – small scale, hobby, yep, that suits us well. 🙂
Where do you find all your amazing crockery, everything is so pretty. 🙂
Book, hmmmm…. I’ve been such a slacker, haven’t read a book in forever. Although, thinking that will change in the coming weeks, this weather is not at all conducive to being outdoors.
Have a happy weekend lovely lady. xox
PS: Are you enjoying Gilmore Girls? Mom and I were thinking about kicking off our yearly marathon. LOL!
I’d love the spelt bread rolls recipe! It looks like your preparing a lot of great food for your cookbook. How sad to have so many orphaned goats! I do love to go to bed with a good book. I’m reading, ‘Love in the Outback’ at the moment xx
Definitely the best part of recipe testing is getting to eat all of the goodies at the end of the day!!
Wow!!! your food writing assignments sound so exciting and yummy.
The best book I’ve read recently is one I first read about 10 years ago-‘Tuesdays With Morrie’ by Mitch Albom. I highly recommend it (and keep a box of tissues by your side 😉