Friday Roundup: Chugging Along
What I’m Knitting:
Despite a terrible lack of knitting time, I managed to start the second colorwork fingerless mitt of the yarn dominance experiment. This Stitch Sprouts Yellowstone (wool/silk blend) is just luscious.
It doesn’t look like much yet, but I have some longer car trips coming up, so hopefully I’ll have some major progress by next week!
What I’m Cooking:
A trip to a semi-local farmers’ market yielded a bunch of kale and carrots, so I whipped up a potato-kale-quinoa stew:
And I got a new vegan cookbook from the library (Appetite for Reduction)! I’m excited to try lots of recipes, but the first one had to be creamed corn, which I love but haven’t had since I stopped eating nearly all dairy more than fifteen years ago. It came out delicious!
My mom just got back from a business trip to Louisiana and brought me some local brown rice, so I made black-eyed peas, collard greens, and cornbread to go with it. My first time cooking with black-eyed peas (and ever eating collard greens, I think), but it came out really good! The recipe uses liquid smoke in place of the usual pork, so it had a bacon-y flavor.
What I’m Reading:
I’m beta-reading an excellent young adult manuscript for a friend of mine before she sends it to her literary agent! Fun stuff. Hopefully you can find this one on the shelves before too long. :-)
I love the periwinkle color of the yarn! My daughter is vegan and we are doing better on our part. Being southern means that we always have Collards at any family events, so we have used smoked paprika in ours to give the smokey flavor and also to give it a bit of an extra something. it’s a big hit and we are the the family that brings the greens..lol.
Ooh, great idea on the smoked paprika! I’ll have to try that!