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September 19, 2005
at some point we'll return to our regularly programed schedule
green beans are a glorious food. i remember when i was a kid, the fleurys grew green beans in their garden, and i would eat'em right off the stalk. fortunately for me, it was never to "the blueberry incident" or "the sliced salami incident" proportions.
now i cook'em up in TOFU PROVINCAL (sorry, can't figure out how to make the cidilla happen!)
man-o-man!!! this was soooooo what the doctor ordered!!! tofu, green beans, red pepper, and tomatoes, with a buncha garlic, basil, terragon, and a friggin bay leaf! the moment i ate my first bite i could feel my body reacting at a cellular level to all the nutritional goodness. the recipe is from the cookbook i got a few weeks ago.
so far i've made the curried zucchini soup and the tofu provincal, and both dishes were fantabulous!!!! i really recommend this book if you're in the market for such a thing. all of the recipes are supposed to take roughly half an hour to make, which has basically been my experience. i mean, we can't hold the book accountable for my distraction now can we?
and because nutrition is so important to me, you know i whipped up an apple cherry crumble...
i was supposed to have made this a few days ago, but i was just too tired. i was able to whip it up when i had some more daylight hours available to me though! at anthony skirvin's suggestion, i chopped up some dried ranier cherries, and put them in too. SO. TOTALLY. IT.
i did work on some stuff this weekend, but i was working slowly, so there's not necessarily a lot to show. let's get started with
NEW SOCK MONDAY
yup-yup, that's right, sock as in singular. THIS IS HOW SLOWLY I'M MOVING THESE DAYS PEOPLE. this is still on the needles cuz i gotta add more length....about an inch and a half in length, i believe... this is one of isaac's silly pink bunny sox. it's the wonderful dalegarn "baby ull" yarn, which is the most pleasant combination of soft and washer friendly!!!!
i finished the sleeves on that vintage sweater jacket i'm "re-knitting".
i've run into a bit of a problem however....ok, so i got the 6 skeins of candy blue cotton ease yarn off ebay, and when i did the math to find out if i had enough to switch from the rebecca cable sweater project to this vintage sweater jacket project, i had enough. now, having finished the arms, which should of taken one skein each, but in all reality took one plus some-but-not-a-lot skeins, which means that i am not starting out with a new skein for each front, and let's not forget the collar and button bands...so, basically, i don't have enough, and i don't think i can get more, exactly how the yarn harlot predicts in her yarn availability formula. gotta improvise, right? my first thought was the lion brand suede yarn i have. it's a really good color match, not to mention it was a popular thing at one point(vintage-wise) to have the front panels of a sweater jacket be actual suede. unfortunately, the guage of the yarn didn't work. instead i'm going to be using wool-ease sportweight in the blueberry twist colorway. i'm still gonna do the bottom ribbing, collar, and button bands in the cotton-ease, just with the blueberry twist front panels...
i think it'll look pretty good, especially with the fancy buttons i got at britex a while ago.
i also made this necklace, which i love the colors of. i wicked wanted to do something in photoshop to make the colors more vivid, kinda like how they are in real life, but i couldn't figure it out. i may just take this outside at somepoint and try to get a better picture to replace with this one.
i finished this bracelet as well. i took a good long time(a week) to size all the headpins with the beads.
of all the stretch band bracelet findings i bought, this is the only one i'm planning on keeping for myself...that's is why i tried to make sure it would go with everything, as it were...
well, that's all she wrote...
Posted by Meagen at September 19, 2005 05:44 AM
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bummer about the yarn...darn yarn availability....
i like how we both posted food...Yummy. i need that cookbook.
Posted by: rachel at September 19, 2005 12:32 PM
all i can think of is that "food, glorious food" song because you queued it up in your first words. nice work on that bracelet. look at that!
Posted by: tedzzo at September 19, 2005 06:48 PM
shitslinging huh?
this is war young lady!!!
Posted by: rachel at September 20, 2005 11:19 PM
those bean looks SO FREAKIN good. i love greens beans and garlic. when are we having dinner again???
Posted by: lisa at September 22, 2005 09:27 AM