Sunday More-than-Seven (busy week)
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neadodsFor the local larger ladies:
I've discovered a consignment shop off Veteran's Highway called Curve Appeal. It carries only sizes 14 and up, and prices ranged from $7 jeans to a $70 leather-and-fur 3x coat. A bit of trouble to get to (my GPS thought it was further down the highway than it was) and it's only open Thurs-Sat, but for those prices? Worth it.
For the foodies:
1) Ripped up garlic naan makes fabulous "dumplings" in chicken soup.
2) Do not make chicken stock in a crock pot; it stays too watery.
3) Dinner in 15 minutes: Steak, Garlic Spinach, and Individual Apple Crisp
SHOPPING LIST
1 large roll
1 large apple (Cortlands are good)
1 small steak
1 handful of spinach (v. cheap from the salad bar to go)
PANTRY LIST
2 T butter
1 clove garlic
2 T sugar
3 T flour (all purpose)
Start with the apple crisp so it's ready to go into the oven ASAP:
Peel and chop the apple fine. (Don't go for even slices, just carve at it, to get enough apple pieces to fill a small dish)
Rub 1 T of the butter, the sugar, and the flour between your fingers until it looks like fine sand. It's "ready" when the lumps fall apart at a touch, but it will clump if you pinch it. Should take about 2 minutes. Sprinkle over apples. A dust of cinnamon sugar, or just cinnamon on top is optional.
Set aside.
Next, the spinach. Mince the garlic and put it and the other T of butter in a pan. Heat to sizzling, then throw in the spinach and saute until it's all wilted and covered in garlic butter.
Put bread and spinach on a plate in the oven on warm.
Fry the steak in the same pan. When done, put smack dab on top of the garlicky spinach.
Put oven up to 350, pop in apple crisp for 30 minutes (it won't brown much). Eat steak and roll; by the time you're through, the crisp will be just about ready. Ice cream optional.
For the Knitters:
At Stitches I discovered Boye Jumbo Stitch Markers (I've since seen them at JoAnnes as well). Their unique locking mechanism (a peg at 90 degrees to the main circle that fits quite snugly into a loop on the other side) means that they lock tight and need some serious fussing to open up again.
Which means that they make fabulous row counters, because you can yank on the chain you've made and it won't pop loose. With three colors per pack, you can use color coding to flag differences in stitches: I intend to make a chain with "pink for purl row" and a "yellow for yarnover" for the many garter/stockinette/yarnover patterns I've seen.
Right now for the WUA knitalong, I've made a chain with a different colored first loop and then (to make sure there's no counting involved at all) hung three of the padlock-style markers on the last loop. Every time I hit the end of the chain, I mark the row with the little padlock that's right there and start going down the chain again. On the 4th run down the chain, it's time to change colors.
So far, it's perfect. The markers are a bit bigger than I would have chosen had I the choice, but they're secure, and because they're loose loops, they're easy to flip out of my way as I knit around them. (The chain itself serves as one of my stich markers for the pattern.)
Sunday Seven:
1) Found new consignment shop
2) Obtained entire wardrobe for England (much of it to go to work before and after)
3) Tossed 2 things from basement, both broken so why did I have them in the first place?
5) Freecycled from basement: old iron, old landline telephone, old portable radio
6) Wound 8 skeins for travel project
7) Sorted yarn for current knitting projects; it is now in separate containers along with photos & instructions for the appropriate project. All put away except for current 2 projects (Warm Up America and travel project).
Knitalong: 1/2 of first block for Warm Up America afghan
Book du Jour: Consigned to Death by Cleland
No reviews in RtE. There's a new issue up, but I haven't received my latest shipment of books to review - and there's going to be one less for me to do when it does arrive, because that book just got reviewed today.
Today I need to:
1) Go over the bills
2) Pack for ChicagoTARDIS (including shoving another set of audiobooks onto the ipod and setting up a word processor on the Asus, but probably not including making the Torchwood Babiez T-shirt at this point)
3) Write my entry for the cross-cliche ficathon, titled "UNITwood."
I've discovered a consignment shop off Veteran's Highway called Curve Appeal. It carries only sizes 14 and up, and prices ranged from $7 jeans to a $70 leather-and-fur 3x coat. A bit of trouble to get to (my GPS thought it was further down the highway than it was) and it's only open Thurs-Sat, but for those prices? Worth it.
For the foodies:
1) Ripped up garlic naan makes fabulous "dumplings" in chicken soup.
2) Do not make chicken stock in a crock pot; it stays too watery.
3) Dinner in 15 minutes: Steak, Garlic Spinach, and Individual Apple Crisp
SHOPPING LIST
1 large roll
1 large apple (Cortlands are good)
1 small steak
1 handful of spinach (v. cheap from the salad bar to go)
PANTRY LIST
2 T butter
1 clove garlic
2 T sugar
3 T flour (all purpose)
Start with the apple crisp so it's ready to go into the oven ASAP:
Peel and chop the apple fine. (Don't go for even slices, just carve at it, to get enough apple pieces to fill a small dish)
Rub 1 T of the butter, the sugar, and the flour between your fingers until it looks like fine sand. It's "ready" when the lumps fall apart at a touch, but it will clump if you pinch it. Should take about 2 minutes. Sprinkle over apples. A dust of cinnamon sugar, or just cinnamon on top is optional.
Set aside.
Next, the spinach. Mince the garlic and put it and the other T of butter in a pan. Heat to sizzling, then throw in the spinach and saute until it's all wilted and covered in garlic butter.
Put bread and spinach on a plate in the oven on warm.
Fry the steak in the same pan. When done, put smack dab on top of the garlicky spinach.
Put oven up to 350, pop in apple crisp for 30 minutes (it won't brown much). Eat steak and roll; by the time you're through, the crisp will be just about ready. Ice cream optional.
For the Knitters:
At Stitches I discovered Boye Jumbo Stitch Markers (I've since seen them at JoAnnes as well). Their unique locking mechanism (a peg at 90 degrees to the main circle that fits quite snugly into a loop on the other side) means that they lock tight and need some serious fussing to open up again.
Which means that they make fabulous row counters, because you can yank on the chain you've made and it won't pop loose. With three colors per pack, you can use color coding to flag differences in stitches: I intend to make a chain with "pink for purl row" and a "yellow for yarnover" for the many garter/stockinette/yarnover patterns I've seen.
Right now for the WUA knitalong, I've made a chain with a different colored first loop and then (to make sure there's no counting involved at all) hung three of the padlock-style markers on the last loop. Every time I hit the end of the chain, I mark the row with the little padlock that's right there and start going down the chain again. On the 4th run down the chain, it's time to change colors.
So far, it's perfect. The markers are a bit bigger than I would have chosen had I the choice, but they're secure, and because they're loose loops, they're easy to flip out of my way as I knit around them. (The chain itself serves as one of my stich markers for the pattern.)
Sunday Seven:
1) Found new consignment shop
2) Obtained entire wardrobe for England (much of it to go to work before and after)
3) Tossed 2 things from basement, both broken so why did I have them in the first place?
5) Freecycled from basement: old iron, old landline telephone, old portable radio
6) Wound 8 skeins for travel project
7) Sorted yarn for current knitting projects; it is now in separate containers along with photos & instructions for the appropriate project. All put away except for current 2 projects (Warm Up America and travel project).
Knitalong: 1/2 of first block for Warm Up America afghan
Book du Jour: Consigned to Death by Cleland
No reviews in RtE. There's a new issue up, but I haven't received my latest shipment of books to review - and there's going to be one less for me to do when it does arrive, because that book just got reviewed today.
Today I need to:
1) Go over the bills
2) Pack for ChicagoTARDIS (including shoving another set of audiobooks onto the ipod and setting up a word processor on the Asus, but probably not including making the Torchwood Babiez T-shirt at this point)
3) Write my entry for the cross-cliche ficathon, titled "UNITwood."
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