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Oct 26, 2011 • Comments Closed No photo for this one, alas. Just noting it to keep track of what I’ve been eating and cooking. Fennel and oranges are very much in season at present, so this is the perfect salad for this time of year. 1/2 bulb fennel, very thinly sliced 1 orange, peel and pith removed, quartered, and sliced...
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Jan 4, 2010 • Comments Closed I was on vacation and stopped by a yarn store (as you do). This Spud and Chloe yarn called to me. I wanted something with a bit of a vintage feel, easy enough to knit on the go without needing to carry a pattern with me. The result was “Grounded”, a simple lace scarf with...
Breakfast is hard for me. For some reason I have trouble getting moving in the morning and I really don’t want to eat at that time. So it’s good if I can have something in the fridge that’s tasty and that I can just grab. 8 granny smith apples 1 cup rolled oats 1/2 cup...
I keep meaning to take photos of my awesome pantry, but to be honest it’s a bit disorganised at the moment. All except for the spice and tea shelves, which I tidied up yesterday. These are my spices. I mostly buy them in bulk at Rainbow (a local natural food co-op) and put them in...
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Oct 31, 2009 • I’m making a Lizard Ridge blanket out of Noro Kureyon, and the result is I’ve got a bag full of odds and ends of yarn, not quite enough to make another square, but too much to throw out. A couple of weeks ago I sat down and made some random stuff out of these leftover...
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Oct 31, 2009 • I could have sworn I’d blogged this before, but my tags say not. (ETA: apparently I did, but mis-spelled cauliflower in the tags. *headdesk*) When I was a kid we used to have this dish called cauliflower cheese that was basically cauliflower swamped in a roux-based cheese sauce, with extra cheese on top, then baked....
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Oct 30, 2009 • I posted this a while ago as a WIP, but forgot to mention I’d finished it. The shawl is the Icelandic feather and fan one from Cheryl Oberle’s “Folk Shawls”, knitted in New Lanark Mills’ aran-weight wool in (IIRC) gritstone. It was left over from an earlier cardigan. The shawl starts in a fairly standard...
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Oct 17, 2009 • Comments Closed Baktus is a scarf pattern that originated with Scandinavian knitting bloggers and has been very popular this year. You take a ball of sock yarn, cast on four stitches, and increase gradually until you’ve used just under half the ball (judging by weight), then decrease at the same rate. I’ve knitted two so far. The...
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Oct 16, 2009 • The red ones in the middle are the new ones. The yarn is Lana Grossa Meilenweit tweed, so as you can probably see the red yarn has black and brown tweedy flecks in it. I really liked it, and would happily knit more socks with it. The pattern is just my personal basic sock pattern...
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Oct 15, 2009 • I think I first made a frittata when I was living in Melbourne a few years ago. Call it 2006. I can’t believe I never did it earlier, because it’s exactly the sort of thing I love: the eggy goodness of quiche, without the fiddliness of making a crust, and cooked mostly on the stovetop....
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Oct 14, 2009 • Comments Closed Every time I do this, I end up saying “It’s been a while since I did this”, and here I am saying it again. Noe Valley Farmers’ Market, 3 blocks up the hill from my place, Saturday morning. Tomatoes (two kinds) Strawberries – probably the last week for it Cauliflower Broccoli Beans Basil Onions Garlic...
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Sep 24, 2009 • This is one of the many variations I have on the general theme of tabbouleh. Basically we’re talking about some kind of grain, a bunch of parsley, and whatever else seems like a good idea. In this case: 1 cup couscous, soaked in 1 cup boiling water with a slurp of olive oil 1 can...
