About
Finished Objects
Patterns
Reading List
eye candy friday – food edition
Posted on | July 31, 2009 | 21 Comments
We’ve been going to our local farmer’s market earlyearly Saturday mornings (we try to get there when they open at 7) and have definitely been enjoying our spoils.
Last week I bought an extra large basket of peaches which were a bit riper than I’d thought. When bruises started appearing, I knew I had to make something with the peaches stat, so I combined them with some dewberries and made a pie. FYI – if you decide to do this too, add more sugar than Betty suggests – the dewberries are tart!
I even broke out the pie bird that came with my pan! I wasn’t sure what purpose he’d serve – he didn’t sing like I’d hoped – but the contents didn’t cook over either. SB thought he’d be a great straw to suck all the filling out of the pie!
The next night I made fried green tomatoes, which were incredible.
And I’ve done a bit of knitting. The back of the Minimalist Cardigan is finished and I should be well into the second front, but I thought I knew better than the pattern and was thwarted – twice! The one complaint about this cardi that I’ve seen on Ravelry is that the stockinette front edges roll. Of course, this is the nature of stockinette. I first thought that if I cast on twice the amount of edge stitches + 1, then made the center stitch a phoney seam a’la Elizabeth Zimmerman, that I would have a neat stockinette edging that lay flat. I was about 8″ into it before I realized that doubling the stitches would make it entirely too big and the stockinette would still sag, but sag horizontally – kinda like baggy ruffles, which wasn’t a look that appealed to me. So I started again. Thought I’d just cast on a few extra stitches to account for the edge roll. Planned on five stitches, but got carried away and cast on ten extra stitches. (If five is good, ten is better, right?) Figured out when I was 10″ inches in that ten extra stitches is too much fabric and it was sagging horribly. So I started over AGAIN, following the pattern TO THE LETTER, and I’m about 6″ in. I hope to finish both fronts over the weekend because man, this seed stitch is already getting old!
I should have a good bit of knitting time tomorrow, as we’re headed to Atlanta to visit IKEA (for kitchen organizational stuff) and REI (to look at tents), plus possible side trips to Cafe Sunflower and hopefully the DeKalb County Farmers Market! What will YOU be doing this weekend?
Comments
21 Responses to “eye candy friday – food edition”
Simple2Column Layout is a Wordpress Theme crafted by Tad Hunt | Email: "tad (AT) thaddeushunt (DOT) com".
July 31st, 2009 @ 10:21 am
Oooh, that cardigan is going to be so pretty! I do love the look of seed stitch, even if I get tired of working it.
Weekends mean nothing to the unemployed. ;-)
July 31st, 2009 @ 10:48 am
your minimalist is coming along so nicely. this one is on my list to knit soon…
have fun in atlanta!
July 31st, 2009 @ 10:55 am
Loving that sweater.
What the heck is a dewberry? :?
July 31st, 2009 @ 11:27 am
Oh yum! It all looks so good. Enjoy your weekend…I hope to knit (and do some eating, too. ;-)
July 31st, 2009 @ 11:28 am
Sounds like a great weekend at your end! I am planning several horse-boy outings, with both Bhen and Digger, some spinning and some knitting, and a bunch of R&R!
July 31st, 2009 @ 3:35 pm
The pie looks scrumptious and I love fried green tomatoes, too. And now I’m hungry!
July 31st, 2009 @ 4:45 pm
Hmm, since minimalist is in my queue, I’ll be interested in seeing if you solve the rolling stitches challenge. The pie looks delicious!
July 31st, 2009 @ 5:31 pm
I’m headed to Philadelphia!
July 31st, 2009 @ 5:58 pm
Whoa – that pie looks awesome.
As for the fried green tomatoes – I’ve always loved them when I’ve gotten them in restaurants, but when I’ve tried making them from my own green tomatoes, they’re WAY too tart. Is there a secret? The ones I’ve had at restaurants have never been tart.
July 31st, 2009 @ 7:33 pm
Did you save any of the fried green tomatoes for me? I’m drooling!
July 31st, 2009 @ 9:55 pm
Next time you have bruised peaches try peach-pepper jam. Peaches with a kick. ;-) I have family members that don’t think its Christmas unless they see a jar of it in their stocking. LOL I can give you the ‘secret’ if you’re interested.
August 1st, 2009 @ 2:39 pm
3rd time is a charm!
The pie looks yummy…no tomatoes for us here, the late blight has taken them..WAHHHHHH :-(
August 2nd, 2009 @ 4:41 am
True eye candy – all of it!
Thus far the weekend has included a bike ride, a run, some organizing, some knitting, and some reading… not bad!
August 2nd, 2009 @ 5:28 am
The pie looks yummy! I think the birdie is to let out the hot steam and stop the pastry getting soggy and icky. :)
Loving the Minimalist as well and I’ve literally bought some yarn that I want to use for this or for Francis Revisited… decisions, decisions! Can’t wait to see yours, hopefully that’ll help me make up my mind. :)
August 2nd, 2009 @ 2:13 pm
So just put up with the rolling?
I LOVE the pie. That looks like food photography at its best.
August 3rd, 2009 @ 6:25 am
Hey, those things are called Dewberries? We’ve got them growing wild up here in Michigan and I always thought they were wild blackberries. Huh.
All kudos to you for doing a seed-stitch sweater! All that front and back with the yarn would drive me nuts. It’s going to be gorgeous when it’s done.
August 5th, 2009 @ 9:07 am
All of it looks so pretty!
August 5th, 2009 @ 9:52 am
Ohhhh….I’m DROOLING!!!!!! I can TASTE that pie!!! YUM!!!
August 5th, 2009 @ 12:12 pm
Well that was just beautiful. And made me hungry.
August 11th, 2009 @ 4:17 am
Oh, how I envy you your tomatoes…. *sniff*
August 17th, 2009 @ 5:33 pm
I just love the little pie bird. The pie looks good too!