Post from Future

Hi everyone!
I've stayed away for a while cause the first end of lockdown has been hard: old style of life has come back but all is different and you have to work hard to combine old things with the new things (friends and social distances, restaurants and masks, walks and people too close to you). I didn't come back to work and maybe I'll still be working from home until the end of the year (I'm very scared of it! If I really went on working from home unti 31st December, I won't be capable to return to Archives and spent all day in office!!!).

Anyway, something is becoming as times before Covid.
In Italy 2n June is a national holiday (the Republic Day - on the 2nd June 1946 after the end of IIWW and of the Fascist regime, there was the referendum between republic and monarchy, republic won and the Italian Republic was born). So, I went to my countryside with my family, to a little town called Capriglio. We haven't been there since last winter. I felt very happy: nature is blossoming, so green and bright coloured. And I could have a talk vis-a-vis to one of my oldest friend sitting on the yard in the sun (not on the phone, zoom, whatsapp). Yes, I felt really happy.
On Sunday some of our friends caught up and we had a barbecue. I've to confess to you: I felt as I was doing something very trasgressive, as I fought the law!

At work!

Famous big rosemary bush

Few recipes but very good food:
sausages, chorizo, hotdogs, chicken and the king of BBQ, pork ribs.
All seasoned with oil, salt and rosemary.

Chicken was marinated in oil, salt, spring onions, garlic and basil (my Argentinian friend's marinade - she is the one kneeling in front of BBQ).


We had also few veggie: potatoes and asparagus (quarantine ingredient is a must!). We weren't very healthy, so we made them fried! Boil them for few minutes, than coat in eggs and breadcrumbs, then fry.

Cake was a "nothing can be wasted" one. We'd been in our country home since Christmas holiday, so in the larder there's a Panettone, left all alone. A recycling recipe: crumble panettone in a blender, than mix large part of it with jam (I use homemade apricot jam), make little balls and coat in panettone crumbs.