Pot Holders for Skillet Handle

You know those little pot holders that are always on the end of cast iron skillets at restaurants when you get fajitas? Well, I decided I was tired of using a dish towel to hold the handle of my skillet while cooking and set out to make some of my own. I will be posting the finished products and a brief tutorial sometime this coming week. They turned out pretty well.

English Muffins Revisited

For quite some time the freezer had been running low on English Muffins. Call it laziness, busyness, or lack of desire, but I what not been in the mood to mess up my kitchen and make another batch of english muffins. After cleaning up my kitchen today I decided I was in the mood to create another batch of muffins revisiting the recipie I had used previously (found here).
Last time they did not have the nooks and crannies that English Muffins usually have, so I thought I'd try it again to see if it would have a different result. It didn't, but this time they turned out much prettier and much tastier!

Next time I'll have to try a different recipe.

Farmer's Market

Every Saturday, April through October our city/town has a farmer's market downtown. Since we live in walking distance of downtown I like to go to the farmer's market to check out what the different venders have. There are always fresh vegetables, flowers, and fresh baked goods.
This week I bought a zucchini, some French bread, and a cinnamon roll (that wasn't nearly as good as the ones my mom makes). Each vender you spend $3 at give you a ticket that you write your name and a phone number on for the weekly basket drawing. My mom and mother in law have already won this year and I decided today was the day I would win. And guess what, I DID!!
I got kettle corn, spinach, romaine, zucchini, two bags of microwaveable hull-less popcorn, homemade eggs noodles, body butter, barbecue seasoning, braided bread, oatmeal raisin cookies, chocolate chip cookies, peanut butter cookies, snicker doodle cookies, giant iced sugar cookies, oatmeal cookies, and 4 honey straws!
Overall a good day at the famers market.

A thought on knitting

This past weekend L and I went to a reenactment in Michigan. While there I was chatting with a woman who was knitting a scarf. When she learned that I had taught myself to knit without a teacher she was impressed, especially when she found out I made mittens first. When I started knitting I wanted to make something useful. As I'm sure I mentioned before, I didn't want or need a scarf, I wanted mittens!! Anyway, the lady knitting showed me how she was doing cabling. It looks like something I want to try next. Maybe in a few months you will see a knitted project with cabling. It will all depend on how many other projects get in the way.

Garden Update

I just read my last update and it was quite terrible. I guess that's what I get for writing a post and not finishing in the same day or even week. 


Here's an update on my garden:
-The peppers I started from seed in February/March were planted in the ground and then shriveled up and wilted from the heat.
-My mom so graciously bought me some pepper plants to replace the ones that died. (I've decided to never plant from seed again on peppers)
   -I have a chocolate pepper plant, California wonder peppers, and orange pepper plant, and some yellow pepper plants
   -There are quite a few blossom, one pepper an inch or 2 long, and a few tiny tiny peppers
-I had to replant my green bean row because none of the beans came up, but now they are thriving
-I replanted my carrot row, we'll see if they come up too
-The tomatoes are doing fantastic! They must really like the type of soil we have!!! They are starting to get blossoms and maybe some tiny tiny tomatoes
-The sweet corn I planted is barely coming up, so that may be a flop this year too
-zucchini and summer squash are popping up!
-Some of the onions are thriving, others have died, but that's fine.

 Tomatoes and peppers

Everything else!

Garden Disaster!!

It happen!!!! The first of my garden disasters!! Remember those pepper plants I love so dearly? DEAD, every single one of them!!! I think I've given up on starting pepper plants from seed!!
Last week I purchased quite a few pepper plants to feed our pepper need. So far they are faring very well!

As for the rest of my garden, we finally got it tilled and mostly planted. A few things have come up, and others I've had to replant due to the hot hot hot weather we had a few weeks back.

I am a negligent blogger who left her camera at her parent's house, so no pictures of the garden right now.

Knitted Socks

My sister got me a lovely skein of fisherman's wool for this past Christmas. L asked me to use the yarn to make him a pair of knitted socks since his feet get cold in the winter. Shortly after Christmas I began knitting socks without a pattern. I figure I'd wind it under I got to the heel portion; and so I did. Our local library has a good selection of knitting books, and I was able to pick up a book called Teach Yourself Visually, Sock Knitting. The book was exactly what I need to get working on my socks to get them completed. I am happy to announce that about a month ago I completed my first pair of knitted wool socks!!!

They took forever with size 1 needles, but they are very warm and very comfortable. Since L and I have similarly sized feet, I am able to steal borrow them if I want.