Wednesday, July 31, 2019

...W.I.P. Wednesday...

...I finished the leftover purple bamboo yarn fraternal socks...
...as soon as Jack realized that I was taking photos...he turned his back on me and is pretending to ignore me...hahaha...dogs are so funny sometimes...
...I'm pleased with the comfy fit of these Sport Sock...sockettes for sneakers...from the Sock Knitter's Workshop
...princess sole...of course...
...not sure I'm loving the 'fraternal-ness' of these socks...but for leftover yarn socks they are pretty good...

...what's in your workbasket?

~Have a lovely day!

Tuesday, July 30, 2019

...Tuesdays with Julia...

...I told you you'd see the pretty new birthday platter on the blog...
...we made Julia's Vegan Sauce Béarnaise...and it was pretty delicious...

...all of the particulars are over at The Vegan Version...

~Have a lovely day!

Monday, July 29, 2019

...Over the Weekend...

..we celebrated my birthday...
...there were flowers...
...and cards and pressies...just a few little things...

...vegan chocolates, a tiny silicone spatula...the Man got it for me so that I could scrape all the vegan mayo out of my tall and narrow stick blender container...it's hard to do with a big spatula... and an olive pitter-thingy...I think the Man felt sorry for me trying to cut all of the pits out of the jarred black olives...a pair of 'blue blocker' glasses for computer work and watching TV at night...and a sweet little wooden case for them...and a steamer basket for the Instant Pot...I've been wanting to try steaming veggies in it for a while now...
...Bing wished me a happy birthday...not sure why I find that so entertaining...
...we went out to the Cuban restaurant to celebrate...and we were sitting there chatting and the music suddenly changed to a loud version of the Birthday song...haha...someone must have told them it was my birthday...so the staff came out and put a hat on my head and sang Happy Birthday to me...it was sweet and fun!...
...my vegan dinner...vegetable rice...and cuban black beans...fried plantain in the background...
...after dinner we went to the little Main Street ice cream shop...it wasn't too crowded when we got there...we've been before and the queue has gone halfway down the block...
...I got my favorite vegan strawberry sorbet...

...and there you have it...another year has passed in the blink of an eye...
...of course I did the regular shopping...all these goodies are from the farmer's market...

...I put the sauces there just in case you didn't realize that they are (accidentally) vegan...and the Himalayan Pink Salt actually says on the bag that it's vegan...haha...
...and then from the regular grocery store...of note...the vegan Thai Sweet Potato Soup to try...and some more smoked almonds...I think I'm addicted to them now...and I got some Wasabi Soy ones to try too...and fresh broccoli to try out in my new steamer basket...
...this is my trick for making short work of the watermelon storage...I use my largest scoop and just quickly cut little balls of melon...
...and plop them into a Tupperware...
...and seriously in two minutes...I'm done...
...the other half I covered with one of my little silicone food saver thingies...
...I fried up the green tomato I bought for a delicious snack...
...and Sunday afternoon...I made another batch of homemade silken tofu...

~Wishing you a lovely start to your week!

Saturday, July 27, 2019

...Dinner and a Movie...

...I couldn't really find a lot of information about the Good Mother Stallard beans...Seedsavers says this:

'One of the 1,186 beans given to SSE in 1981 by bean collector John Withee of Massachusetts. Named for Carrie Belle Stallard of Wise County, Virginia. This variety dates to at least the 1930s. Maroon beans splashed with white, 5-6 seeds per pod. Wonderful rich meaty flavor, great for soups. Very productive. Pole habit, dry, 85-95 days. ±680 seeds/lb.'
...cooked up in the Instant Pot..
...and served with greens, rice and cornbread...

...Y'all may have noticed in the comments that Maureen recommended that we watch The Card entitled The Promoter for the American Audience...after I posted about my birthday dish from Burslem...

...it was sweet, cute and funny...I enjoyed it...

...I also bought the Kindle version The Card (Denry The Audacious in America), The Old Wives’ Tale & Leonora for 99¢...it will be a fun read I'm sure...and I'm happy that it's a trilogy...

...what have you been watching lately?...

~Have a lovely weekend!

Friday, July 26, 2019

...Friday Favorites...

...this is totally random...but as I was dropping off the latest stack of the Man's books...(he insists on reading everything in book form - no Kindle or e-Reader for him)...the book sale won't be until February...but they take donations year round...
...I saw this book had been left on the donation table...so of course I opened it up...
...and saw this on the inside...and I was intrigued...my sweet Grandma was from Swannanoa...
...and then turning the page...it's in German...and seems to be a recipe book...
...a few pages in the recipes are in English...
...and all in the same hand...
...but occasionally...an entirely different one...

...it's fun to speculate as to why...a friend brought this dish to a potluck and the owner asked for the recipe so her friend wrote it out in the book for her...
...another recipe in a different hand...and I loved the little notes...whole wheat is really filling...only make half...
...sometimes there's a name...like with the Blakely's black beans...this is Kathy's fruit scones...
...all of the recipes are vegetarian...
...and interestingly different...Succotash Chowder...
...followed by vegetable chowder...
...followed by a Tabouli...
...I'll have to show this pesto recipe to the Man...for all his basil he's growing...and the Mondo Bizzaro sauce beside it uses a lot of basil too...
...Brocolli Noodle casserole...that's different...it's usually broccoli and rice...
...but then there's a spinach rice casserole...so those two seem backwards to me...
...spekulatius...in German again...my sissie gave me some of these windmill cookies for Christmas...and that sweet little bookmark was in the book too...
...a traditional pound cake...
...and a cardamom coffee cake...the Man would hate this one...but I think I'd like it...
...but he loves bread pudding and apple crisp both...
...I have the old Moosewood cookbook...I'll have to see if this is the full recipe...
...both the Orange cake and the Autumn Gold Soup sound good...
...and a unique Cheddar Parsnip soup...I don't usually think of putting those two things together either...
...Flädle recipe in a different hand...
...a few notes about a $20 deposit...beside a whole wheat bread recipe...I think there was another WW bread recipe too...
...Ellen's Mom's Banana Bread...
...any ideas what a Mottis Eislee is?...Mos Eisley is a Star Wars character...Noun(plural mottis)- (military) An encircled enemy unit....can't find anything on Eislee...but Eisley is of Unknown origin and means "Of Swiss origin, meaning "Cheerful""...looks like it's some sort of drink as it makes a 1/2 gallon...and the cinnamon rolls look good...
...a 'recipe'...for how to roast a butternut squash...beside some dinner ideas...
...and then a butternut squash bread...
...William's P'nut Pasta sounds good...
...some herb-y dumplings...would probably be good in some chick'n-y gravy...
...Eric's crepes in pencil in a different hand...
...and on the back flyleaf...a Playdough recipe...

...wasn't that fun flipping through someone else's handwritten cookbook...trying to figure out why someone donated such a personal and well-used/loved little cookbook...

...I took all of these photos right there at the donation table...I may try to find this book at the booksale in February...haha...

...what interesting books have you found at charity booksales?...

~Have a lovely day!