Eatin' From the Pea Patch!

Yay! We have a zucchini, a yellow squash and a tomato! I sliced these up last night, tossed the tomato in a vinegar dressing, made The World's Best Zuke Recipe with eggs contributed by Frida and Olive! Yum!!!

In case you don't know The World's Best Zuke Recipe, here it is:

1. thinly slice your zuke (1 not too big zucchini is plenty for 2 people).

2. heat up some olive oil in frying pan; throw in the zuke along with a couple of cloves of chopped up garlic. Saute until zuke is kind of limp.

3. Add eggs (I use 2 eggs per person), salt and pepper (to taste, it usually takes more than I think it will), and grated parmesan cheese. Stir until the eggs are scrambled.

4. Serve with a nice baguette.

This is a fabulous summer lunch or dinner!

An Afternoon of Dyeing

Here are some pictures of my sock yarn dyeing adventure:

Step One: Set out dyeing materials and get ready. Everything is pristine and white. Feel as if am in a laboratory.

Step Two: Don mask and gloves. Immediately start to hyperventilate. Must keep mask on or directions warn of dire effects of acid dyes. Start to question sanity of dyeing on hottest day of year.

Step Three: about 5 minutes into project; nothing pristine OR white any longer. Start to worry about dye stains on library book am using. Wonder if library will notice.

Step Four: Yarn goes in the dye pot! Immediately realize that directions are for dyeing ONE POUND of yarn. Actually dyeing FOUR OUNCES of yarn. Wonder if this will make a difference.

Step Five: Two days later, have lovely skein on yarn on swift! Colors are not exactly as envisioned but not total fug either.

Step Six: Admire pretty ball of sock yarn. Toss in cubby with all other yarn waiting to be knit. Blog about experience, then have cold glass of wine.

Heading over the Pass

Steve & I are taking a wee road trip to Seattle on Friday. Family, hope you all are around this weekend!

Dyeing to Dye!

Call me crazy, but I'm spending the afternoon dyeing sock yarn! I've been 'dyeing' to try this for a while and today seemed like a good day. I have a little dye kit I got from Hello Yarn and some undyed sock yarn. I have an old canning kettle I picked up from a thrift store. I have no one around to interrupt me. So here goes!

Of course I have grand plans to create a beautiful hand dyed yarn that will be the colors of Venice:

But since I really don't know how to mix these colors, I'm pretty sure my sock yarn is not going to look ANYthing like Venice...

Pictures of the process to follow soon! Now to don my respirator and latex gloves and go forth and dye!

Quote of The Day

"I was thrown out of NYU my freshman year for cheating on my metaphysics final. I looked within the soul of the boy sitting next to me."

Alvy Singer in Annie Hall

OK, it tickled me at 5 am.

What a Crew!

Stole this from Facebook, I've never seen this picture before but I LOVE IT!

Front row: Kirdy, baby Tony, Peter and Tony F.

Back Row: Cara, Dominic and Katie.

These guys are all grown up now, but I sure remember them all at this age.

Remember This?

Girls my age will surely remember getting this booklet called "Growing Up and Liking It" at the yearly top-secret menstruation talk. Only the girls (and their moms) were allowed to attend, and I recall the cafeteria windows being covered with rolls of butcher paper so that no boys could peek in. LOL, how ridonkulous!

I found a pristine 1962 edition of this fab little book while I was estate saling yesterday and I HAD to have it. It's full of great tips like 'no violent exercise', be sure to 'change out of wet duds when you get caught in the rain', take it easy when dancing and more.