Time to reflect....
There are many times during the season that I am pulled in many directions and try to do my best to forget as little as possible and get the most done, with added daylight hours its a busy day. Even on the longest and busiest of days I still take time to think about what I am doing, who I am doing it with and think about how awesome it is that I make cheese! but I also think how lucky I am to have found something so early in my life that makes me so content. I always thought that I would find that contentment in practicing law-so the fact that I walk by a cowing peeing out her butt in the morning on the way to the cheese room makes me laugh! Even though it happens nearly every morning (my timing must be perfect) it still makes me laugh. As I laugh I look at the cows grazing and the green hills and the flowers blooming and hear the birds chirp and the rooster crow and I am enjoy the ambiance.
Being a farmer and a producer of cheese is very enjoyable on many fronts. I choose who surrounds me I listen to wonderful hip hoppping tunes all day and I create products people enjoy.
I pulled up to the Hillsdale market on Sunday and got hello how r u good mornings from my favorite vendors, I got a handful of berries from each booth that had some and I got some freshly picked first of the season squash blossoms!
The squash blossoms are my favorite and the fact that I was the very first to get some made them taste even sweeter when I stuffed them with a little herbed ricotta and sauteed them!
I think of the farmers markets as a great representation of the American opportunity. Its a wonderful tool to bring communities together, bring great produce and artisan goods to the city and fresh eggs of course! The connection that people have with the person that grows their tomatoes or makes their cheese or provides them with their thankgiving turkey all benefit the community and it is something that I have enjoyed watching grow and experience.
Since the connection with your dear Cheese Czarina is very important you can now find me on FACEBOOK!!!
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We will also shortly have photos of the creation process as well as more farm photos so please check us out!
The forecast for this weekend is warm and with the warm weather and added markets I decided that it was time to put Le Van du Fromage back to work! Its the maiden voyage of the season for Le Van so wish us luck!
This morning I hand scooped the ricotta and found it so light and pillowy and creamy and absolutely delicious I thought that there would never be a better weekend to promote it! So this weekend we will have a very special special on our ricotta :)
We also have a small amount of fresh curds from today's batch of cheese - since they have been requested as well as our herbed fromage blanc which has been gaining popularity every week!
Enjoy the lovely sunny weather while eating some dairy this weekend!
Until next week.
Yours always
Cheese Czarina!
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