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The baton has been passed...

06.18.05 (7:55 am) [edit]

When I was about 10 years old (or so) I took over the baking of cookies in our home. My mom was a polio survivor and while she got around okay and kept the house, she didn't enjoy baking as much as she once had so I took it over (cause I enjoyed the eating part of course GRIN)and many a friday or saturday night was spent covering the kitchen table with cookies. Cookies I might add that would disappear at an alarming rate when my older brother would stop in on his way home from working and inhale 2 or 3 dozen of the little dainties I'd make. Hyperbole is in my blood what can I say? :P

My favourite cookbook of my mom's was the Joy of Cooking. I still have her copy, sans covers and much of the index pages, well stained with sauces and time. I've purchased a new one, a revised edition and don't really care for it. It's gone the political correctness way and everything is sans fat or nouvelle cusine in the oh hell who'd eat that anyways way. ;P (I wonder if anyone has ever used our cook books, recipe collections and food preferences to assess our society?) Anyhoo...I still turn to the old version when I'm feeling needful of baking.

A few of the recipes are so ingrained and personalized by my additions and subtractions through the years that I don't need the book. The girls call me on occasion for THE COOKIE RECIPE for instances. (dumplings are another but my sil doesn't like them much to the chagrin of my daughter who makes them anyways cause she does (good girl))

THE COOKIE RECIPE. It's funny. That recipe is very likely the very first one I ever made. And it seemed like the proverbial rocket science math back then. Now... It's dead simple and doubles and quadruples with ease. It's your basic (or mine anyways) oatmeal chocolate chip recipe and it's had everything from raisins to sunflower seeds to marshmallows added to it over the years as our tastes ebbed and waned.

When the olders (3) were younger they'd beg to make cookies. I'd set them up with 3 bowls and each would make their own. They'd all make the exact same recipe and then one would add raisins, the next butterscotch chips and the third chocolate. Or some other three *special* ingredients to make they batch *THEIRS*. It took them a long time to figure out that they were all making the very same cookie. :P

It's still our old standby and last night the baton was passed, #4 made her very first (on her own) batch of THE COOKIE RECIPE, and damn if they didn't turn out great. :P By the way I think my bro was on to something. There's really quite a lot of satisfaction in snitching a warm from the oven cookie that you didn't bake up (or have to clean up after baking them) and settling down in your armchair with a nice cup of tea and a book.

All hail the new baker in the family.

When I grow up...

06.16.05 (8:01 pm) [edit]

When I grow up this is the sort of knitter I wanna be. ;P

Ready for some eye candy?

Here you go:

And just to appease the crochet goddesses too... I'll also be a crocheter capable of producing these as well.

These beautiful lacies were worked (I'm assuming, as they were in her stuff and I found 1/2 done projects in both crochet and knit as well as some exquisite silk on silk embroidery) by my Aunt Ann. She passed away a while back and on a visit home shortly after my uncle (her brother) had me take some of her personal things. Among them a wonderful cedar chest full of souveniers of her life. Slowly over the last few years I've been bringing things out of the trunk. These are something I spied early on but was reluctant to bring out and use. They now adorn some furniture in our living room.

Been feeling very mortal of late, been sick, been stressed, been just...odd. These comfort me. The further you run from home, the harder it smacks you in the head when it catches up with you, heh... Good thing I didn't see these before I started knitting, I never would have attempted to try to match that. Now I think just maybe, I could give her a run for her money.

Back soon with more knitting pics.

Knitting updates, sorta

06.03.05 (7:14 pm) [edit]

It's been a while and there've been reasons, none of which most of you would care about so :P let's just say I've been busy and leave it at that.

I thought I'd update some of my ongoing knitting projects. I haven't been knitting on most of them since the move but of late the peacockfeathers shawl by our own Dorothy Siemens

And yes, this is the same shawl I've been working on off and on for the last year or so. :o.O: It betrayed me and we had *issues* to work out. But now we're all okay again.
Here we are up to row 153.

Here's a detail shot.

I've had a few distractions.

This wonderful bunch of something arrived in a box from South Africa a week or so ago. My daughter (8) saw it and said uhoh, looking over her shoulder for daddy. *hmm* Then when I pointed out that it was Mexican Wave like in this

she was all *I want a shawl*. We settled on a poncho, which other than waiting for fringing this weekend is done. More pics of it coming up. I made it from Steph's Yarn Harlot Poncho pattern. The golden brown is on the needles awaiting another shipment for another poncho for the littlest. I just couldn't get over the blends of color and wanted the whole thing in that color way. Thank you to my most accomodating friend in South Africa who sends me stuff. A few more balls are winging their way to me as we speak. Pics will be posted upon completion. Interesting side note, the brown is Mexican Wave Aran. A little heavier than the regular Mex Wave I'm accustomed (and addicted to) but knits up great on 9 mm needles for a quick and easy poncho.

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