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thing-a-day 2010 |
I don't have a picture right now, so I'll try to explain. I have a jacket with two zippers on the front. If they are unzipped (which they often are, because this jacket also has buttons on the front) they make a lot of noise when I walk. I've been thinking about wrapping some yarn around the zipper pulls for a while, to make them quieter. So today I finally did it, wrapped yarn around all the noisy components. I'll be going on a walk later today!
Catch up for day 25: mending project: sew button back on pants.
Not a very exciting thing today--cleaning the house! And I didn't even clean that much of the house! We've been sick around here so things are getting pretty piled up. Tonight I put away clean dishes (one of my least favorite chores), washed dishes, put away "not dirty enough to wash" clothes, washed a load of laundry, sorted through junk mail, and oiled wooden utensils and cutting boards. Now it's time for bed!
Catch up from 2/21: Tonight I made some blueberry muffins loosely following this recipe. Maybe I should have followed it more closely because they didn't really turn out the way I wanted. I made the following substitutions: coconut oil for butter, wheat flour for 1 cup for white flour, agave nectar for 2 T brown sugar. I used a little over a cup of frozen blueberries. The result is a pretty greasy muffin. I usually use a mixture of fats when baking, but this time I decided to just use coconut oil, and I think that was my mistake. The muffins could also use a little lemon or something else to make them a little tart. I guess my blueberries are too sweet! I grated some lemon zest and squeezed a little juice over the muffins, we'll see how that works tomorrow!
Catching up from 2/20: Tonight I made some potatoes and turnips fried in goose fat.
Friday catch up: I started the embroidery piece by drawing out the quote. I didn't do much refining, I wanted it to look a little rough, imperfect. I can't decide if I want to do it with a satin stitch or a few rows of outline stitch or what.
Today I didn't do anything very exciting, I made a list and then went grocery shopping. We get a lot of our staples at Your Dekalb Farmers Market and that's where I went tonight! This is a very large warehouse food market and it is exhausting to shop there. I am exhausted.
I still haven't caught up from days 19-21, but yesterday I cooked. I'm going to call it "Indianish" because I am by no means a master of Indian cooking. Let's say dinner was in the style of Indian food. No pictures because we started eating right away!
I didn't make anything this weekend so have some catching up to do this week. Some things I'd like to work on the rest of the month:
Yesterday I made two things so I'm going to count that for yesterday and today because I had to work late today and don't feel like doing anything now that I'm home. First I made a turnip soup. We had all these turnips and nothing for dinner! It was a really simple recipe, just turnips, potatoes and a spring onion simmered in weak chicken broth, then pureed. I added a little salt, pepper, nutmeg and cream to finish. (That little bundle in the soup? The potato peels. I wanted to include their flavor but think potatoes fall apart better if peeled. I ate the peels after cooking the soup--yum!)
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