Tonight we are having Molly Katzen’s Influenced Vegetable Stew for dinner. There will be home-made Chocolate Ice Cream to follow and I have made a Fruits of the Forest compôte (with brandy and vanilla) to sauce the ice cream. I’d like a little crunch with that – so, what should it be? I’m fancying Almond …
Monthly archives: August 2011
AWOL
Yes, it has come around again – that time of the year when Mr L and I go super-gooey. August Bank Holiday weekend may not be a holiday up here but he is on holiday on Monday and this is the anniversary that we tend to honour more than the formal ones. It is twelve …
Hap-pily knitting along
The Hap is coming along nicely – the border is up to Row 35 of 50. If I had any thoughts of it making an FO post today, I would be keeping them to myself. Not that I am saying that I did. Think that, I mean… As always with circular needles, my hands are …
Cloud 9
I could have sworn that I was not going to have a Thursday Thrill to post this week but, lo – the advent of the postie brings… Inca Cloud. RED Inca Cloud. Pure alpaca Double Knitting yarn. And it was an advantageous price too. Just three balls, for a small project that I have planned. …
I need to catch up
Tidying my desk yesterday, I discovered last quarter’s edition of Weaving today, which is still unread. Today the latest edition arrived. Whoops. Perhaps I need to allocate more reading time.