On Friday night, I made this recipe with spare ribs from a local farm. They were awesome.
On Saturday, I made creamed spinach for lunch. (Thanks, Deb.)
This morning, I made pancakes. (I’ve posted about them before.)
I’ll have some knitting to show you soon. (I swear.)
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Posted in kitchen, spinning, tagged 2-ply, fast flyer, hello yarn fiber club, jeans, kitchen, pink, purple, safety pins, slaw tartare, spinning, winter storage on November 10, 2009 | 6 Comments »
I uploaded photos from my camera this morning and noticed a theme.
From the top: an impromptu lunch of slaw tartare with red cabbage from the farm, safety pins to keep my favorite jeans modest enough to wear out of the house, and the very pink beginnings of the second bobbin of the Winter Storage colorway [...]
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Posted in grad school, knitting, reading, tagged boh, books, bracken, ceremony, dumplings, grad school, jo sharp classic dk wool, kitchen, knitting, reading, vestvember, whoa on November 8, 2009 | 5 Comments »
“The creosote and tar smell of the railroad tracks woke him from the dreaming. The cinders made hollow crunching noises under his boots. He had come a long way with them; but it was his own two feet that got him there.” — Leslie Marmon Silko, Ceremony (1976) (My version is Penguin, 2006, p. 236.)
Do [...]
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Posted in kitchen, knitting, tagged applesauce, food mill, kimchi, kitchen, knitting, local alpaca, plain and simple pullover, the joy of pickling, winding on November 1, 2009 | 8 Comments »
A bunch of folks from my department went out for Korean food this week, and I ate some incredibly yummy (and spicy) kimchi. My farm share included Chinese cabbage, and while I had initially been envisioning a hearty stir-fry, kimchi thoughts took over when I opened my fridge to make lunch on Friday. I got [...]
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Posted in kitchen, out of doors, spinning, tagged baking, boh, fall, finn, hello yarn fiber club, kitchen, leaves, outside, spinning, walking, winter storage, yellow on October 31, 2009 | 7 Comments »
It was a quiet Friday, spent trying to catch up with the week: lots of list-making and stock-taking, but also a longer walk to the reservoir with Boh to clear my head and stretch his (okay, our) legs.
It was a proper eve of Halloween — the sky was grey, the wind, howling, and the familiar [...]
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Posted in kitchen, knitting, spinning, tagged 2-ply, AVFKW, blackberry, boogie wonderland, calorimetry, cosymakes, five plum pie, handspun, hat, hello yarn, kitchen, knitting, knitty, pancakes, plying, polwarth, southern cross fibres, spinning, super hero helmet hat on October 20, 2009 | 5 Comments »
In order to face the week, I needed blackberry pancakes. (Mondays can be tough!) I ate them for breakfast and lunch, and they helped, like they always do. Moving on…
I knit this over the weekend for my friend H. (of wedding shawl fame) because tomorrow is her birthday! I just couldn’t wait any longer, so [...]
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Posted in kitchen, out of doors, tagged baking, boh, bread, fall, foliage, kitchen, no knead bread, outside on October 12, 2009 | 7 Comments »
I stand in pretty much the same place to take my pictures of the reservoir near my house, so you can really see how much the leaves have changed over the last few weeks. Yesterday was the perfect day for a walk through the falling leaves.
We baked a loaf of no-knead bread, and enjoyed it [...]
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Posted in kitchen, knitting, spinning, tagged 3-ply, baking, BFL, boh, botanic hat, crown mountain farms, kitchen, knitting, raspberry muffins, slow roasted tomatoes, smitten kitchen, spinning on October 4, 2009 | 5 Comments »
You know, the opposite of work. (Both are occurring this weekend, but the not-work is more fun to photograph.)
Boh likes to “hide” behind or underneath the blanket on my bed. He also likes to chew on it, or pretend to chew on it, as a way of getting my attention.
I see you.
Slow-roasted tomatoes and raspberry [...]
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Posted in kitchen, spinning, tagged 28thirty, 3-ply, BFL, crown mountain farms, handspun, kitchen, roasted tomatoes, spinning, sweater on September 28, 2009 | 6 Comments »
Yesterday started out well. I blogged, put some tomatoes in the oven to roast, put on a handknit sweater, did some reading, and went out to brunch.
While I did all of this, my head became rather congested, and by the time I got home after brunch, I was starting to feel achy. Blah. I decided [...]
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Posted in kitchen, knitting, spinning, tagged alpine, BFL, cascade 220, crown mountain farms, garter yoke cardigan, gyc, handspun, hello yarn, kitchen, knitting, romney, sauerkraut, singles, spinning on September 27, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Despite the fact that I haven’t actively listened to any Michael Jackson since the summer, every time I go to abbreviate the garter yoke cardigan as GYC (you know, when I label photos and such), I hear the chorus of PYT in my head.
I’m just over halfway through the raglan increases now, and I’m hoping [...]
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