Food:
- I did two of the cookbook challenges. The first was from Mark Miller's Red Sage Cookbook; I made a marinated flank steak and some black bean tamales with a chipotle crema. The black bean recipe was fabulous; so flavorful! I'll make that again. Then you basically refry then beans and use them inside the tamale. We had the penultimate bottle of '03 Columbia Crest Reserve Cab with it; very nice.
- July's cookbook was Secret Ingredients (I can't find an online reference but will at some point put the authors name here). I grilled some turkey with a peanut marinade (this was fabulous) on Saturday, and some ribs with a anise marinade on Monday. Both excellent recipes. I also grilled some napa cabbage with garlic/lemon/olive oil dressing, which was excellent. DH has selected an Italian cookbook for next month.
Fiber wise:
- There are a couple of projects that are not going well, I'm not going to talk about these now, but will later.
- I carded a bunch of stuff. The wool I dyed (still in the garage) and some wool/tencel (for color blending). Then Ziggy slept on it. I think it's still spinnable, will start on that in a couple of weeks.
- The gamp is on the loom; the first napkin is finished and I'm part way through the second one.
- And I bought a Louet Victoria; it's a dinky travel wheel and it spins very nicely. Looking forward to putting it through it's paces.
Here's Owl on the color gamp:
