More Bits & Bobs

Corn and Tomato Pie
Cherry Tomato Focaccia
Oyster Mushroom Rockefeller
Instant Pot Butternut Squash Risotto
Chai Caramels with Salted Pepitas

Blogs and Websites I Follow

Recipes

Yarn Harlot: Stephanie Pearl-McPhee, writer, knitter, hilarious
Modern Daily Knitting: Anne Shayne and Kay Gardiner, bloggers and on-line shop
Smitten Kitchen: Deb Perlman’s food blog that has never let me down
The Counter: non-profit food journalism
Food 52: food, drink, blog, and shop
Mark Bittman; former NY Times food editor, cookbook author
David Lebovitz: former pastry chef at Chez Panisse, cookbook author, writes about food and living in Paris
Elisabetta Sforza: embroidery artist, blogs in Italian but has a translate button. Gorgeous photos!
Needle ‘n’ Thread: Mary Corbett website, blog, embroidery tutorials

What's Been Keeping Me Busy

Tomato Corn Pie
A mess of pesto for the freezer
A weekend's food preservation
A day's gatherings
Sleeves for a new sweater jacket
Sock toes
Needlepointing station
Bedtime reading: new Rowan knitting magazine and the manual for a new-to-me mini tiller
Early in to the Troy Farmers Market.
My top 9 posts from Instagram this year
Knitting by the tree
Christmas kraut (click for recipe)
Marty Stuart and His Fabulous Superlatives, Nov. 18 (click for review)
Preserving lemons
Tomato Jam
Cherry tomato focaccia
Needlepoint kit
Deconstructed sweater
Icy morning at the Troy spring
Troy Farmers Market
Dominant colors in my 2019 Instagram feed
Spiced persimmon coconut cake (click for recipe)
Pumpkin bread with salted maple butter (click for recipe)
One day's mail
Mumford and Sons, March 2 (click for a review)
August bounty
Fetching water at the spring
Local flower delivery
Deconstructing a sweater
Herbs under the grow lights.
Troy Farmers Market
"Vintage" gifted yarn being regifted as a cowl
Decked halls
Two feet of snow on December 2
October drive in Adirondack Park

Appreciations

These are just some words, images, and other things that have caught my eye or ear.

Woven wicker (click for more artist info)
Draft Age by Jamie Wyeth
Convent Garden by William Leech
An artist embroiders into scars on trees (click for more)
Detail from blouse sewn by Georgia O'Keefe (click for more information on the exhibit)
Wind from the Sea by Andrew Wyeth
Beautiful colors on this cover
Winter by Maxfield Parish
La Frileuse by Jean-Antoine Houdon
Rain II by Danny Amazonas, made with Kaffe Fassett fabric
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