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Jun. 10th, 2013 11:07 amOn Saturday morning, ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
scrottie and I finally had a chance to sit down and conference about plans and projects and cooking for the upcoming week. We need to do that more often, to ensure that we're getting to do the things we want to do. The result was that we spent Saturday food-gathering, cooking, and at the Rec Center, and then spent Sunday working on the Honda Z (S) and quilting (moi).
The culinary adventures of the weekend included "Ocean Cakes" (from the Cafe Flora cookbook) with a tartar sauce taste-off. I'd made green tomato relish the weekend prior, but I can't say I eat all that much relish by itself (this has something to do with not eating hotdogs as they're made of meat). So we mixed equal parts relish and mayonnaise and dolloped it atop the Ocean Cakes (tofu patties with the seaweed arame plus a bunch of amazing spices), and compared that against a jar of the stuff we'd picked up in Austin. Both were tasty, though if I were trying to be more authentic with my homemade version in the future I'd have to add some lemon juice and mustard.
We're starting to get oodles of cucumbers from the CSA, so I made some cucumber salad as well - always popular with the cat because of the feta cheese. I also made some more ratatouille with zucchini and peppers from the CSA, onions and garlic from the farmer's market, and eggplant, tomatoes and herbs out of the garden. Tastes like summer! Then I whipped up another batch of this incredibly tasty salad of toasted quinoa with kale and pine nuts, which would make any health food nut quiver in his or her boots with delight (so long as he or she didn't get into that hand-wringing mess over quinoa displacing farmers in Bolivia, which appears to be a half-truth about the whole situation anyway). There were a few more projects in there, too - tomatillo salsa and some paneer. Hopefully a large enough stockpile to keep us fed for the week.
The quilt is progressing. I finished piecing together the top, and pieced together the two bottom panels, so the next step is tacking the whole thing together so I can begin the quilting proper. I think the tacking step needs to be started while in a state of zenlike calm, and I also think I need to read up on it again. I know that it will require laying out some giant pieces of fabric on a clean floor (no small feat here) and lots of smoothing of things.
Lastly, have some photos from the last couple of weeks:
Blackberry picking with S:
Guinea fowl guarding us while we pick blackberries:
Blackberry bushes. This would be idyllic except that blackberry spines are painful.
Our haul from ant-collecting in Arizona:
Kale, of course (LM wanted to take this photo).
Blåbær (that's Danish for blueberry)
Blueberry bushes
Wildflowers
Byproducts from that cooking bender a while ago (muesli in the big Mason jar, stroop in the small Mason jar, three blueberry pies, chocolate cupcakes, ingredients for green tomato relish, and a small pile of failed stroopwafel cookies)
Big 'un (one whole pound!)
scrottie and I finally had a chance to sit down and conference about plans and projects and cooking for the upcoming week. We need to do that more often, to ensure that we're getting to do the things we want to do. The result was that we spent Saturday food-gathering, cooking, and at the Rec Center, and then spent Sunday working on the Honda Z (S) and quilting (moi). The culinary adventures of the weekend included "Ocean Cakes" (from the Cafe Flora cookbook) with a tartar sauce taste-off. I'd made green tomato relish the weekend prior, but I can't say I eat all that much relish by itself (this has something to do with not eating hotdogs as they're made of meat). So we mixed equal parts relish and mayonnaise and dolloped it atop the Ocean Cakes (tofu patties with the seaweed arame plus a bunch of amazing spices), and compared that against a jar of the stuff we'd picked up in Austin. Both were tasty, though if I were trying to be more authentic with my homemade version in the future I'd have to add some lemon juice and mustard.
We're starting to get oodles of cucumbers from the CSA, so I made some cucumber salad as well - always popular with the cat because of the feta cheese. I also made some more ratatouille with zucchini and peppers from the CSA, onions and garlic from the farmer's market, and eggplant, tomatoes and herbs out of the garden. Tastes like summer! Then I whipped up another batch of this incredibly tasty salad of toasted quinoa with kale and pine nuts, which would make any health food nut quiver in his or her boots with delight (so long as he or she didn't get into that hand-wringing mess over quinoa displacing farmers in Bolivia, which appears to be a half-truth about the whole situation anyway). There were a few more projects in there, too - tomatillo salsa and some paneer. Hopefully a large enough stockpile to keep us fed for the week.
The quilt is progressing. I finished piecing together the top, and pieced together the two bottom panels, so the next step is tacking the whole thing together so I can begin the quilting proper. I think the tacking step needs to be started while in a state of zenlike calm, and I also think I need to read up on it again. I know that it will require laying out some giant pieces of fabric on a clean floor (no small feat here) and lots of smoothing of things.
Lastly, have some photos from the last couple of weeks:
Blackberry picking with S:
Guinea fowl guarding us while we pick blackberries:
Blackberry bushes. This would be idyllic except that blackberry spines are painful.
Our haul from ant-collecting in Arizona:
Kale, of course (LM wanted to take this photo).
Blåbær (that's Danish for blueberry)
Blueberry bushes
Wildflowers
Byproducts from that cooking bender a while ago (muesli in the big Mason jar, stroop in the small Mason jar, three blueberry pies, chocolate cupcakes, ingredients for green tomato relish, and a small pile of failed stroopwafel cookies)
Big 'un (one whole pound!)
