Tuesday, July 5, 2016

Three cookbook challenge meals, updates on fiber projects.

Well, looks like two weeks is my summer interval on this blog...

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:

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