Yesterday ended upwards beingness a twenty-four hours for everything. When I went dorsum downstairs to exercise some slow-stitching, the kitties were looking no to a greater extent than lively than they had an hr earlier. Smitty, at least, had roused himself to peer outside.
Sadie was withal snuggled into her quilt.
There was virtually an hr to deadening stitch before I needed to move out for my monthly pedicure. While I was out, I stopped off at Wholly Too Expensive Foods to come across if I could grade some chanterelle mushrooms. Chanterelles are a wild mushroom, in addition to thence they are solely available at sure as shooting times of the year. It's possible to become hunting for them inward our area, simply it's a long drive. They're expensive inward the stores, simply no to a greater extent than costly than paying for the gas it takes to effort where nosotros powerfulness honor some. Also, I tin larn them without getting my shoes muddy.
When I picked upwards our CSA on Tuesday, at that spot was the most beautiful packet of crimson chard included. And here's the affair virtually chard: We are pretty lukewarm on greens of whatever kind. Except lettuce. Would you lot telephone yell upwards lettuce a green? We similar lettuce. As for the rest...and I'm talking kale, chard, bok choy, collards...we effort real difficult to similar them. I've institute a way to purpose chard inward meatloaf that's pretty darned good. (You tin honor the link to the recipe correct here, if you're interested.) The solely other way we've institute to similar it a lot is inward Chanterelle Mushroom Risotto. In that, it is divine. So all of that to tell that Wholly Too Expensive Foods did non permit me downwards yesterday. After the sewing machine debacle of the twenty-four hours before, the chanterelles were a existent twenty-four hours brightener.
When I got home, I roasted those puppies along amongst some crimson onion. The recipe calls for shallots, simply I'm overrun past times crimson onions from the CSA. So, crimson onion it was. Risotto is a dish that makes a lot of muddied pans, in addition to it takes a land to brand it. It isn't hard, simply it takes time. It's best to roast the chanterelles ahead of fourth dimension in addition to that makes dinner fourth dimension prep a whole lot easier. So, feast your eyes:
It's difficult non to swallow them correct away afterward taking them out of the oven. Mine sat through the afternoon, in addition to I gazed lovingly at them every fourth dimension I walked by. And every bit long every bit I was at it, I boiled a handbag of CSA beets for pickling this weekend. Now that they're boiled in addition to skinned, it'll endure pretty quick to tin them.
I've admitted to a few of you lot that I was a picayune bummed yesterday virtually the sewing machine. Ordinarily, it's non a big deal, simply yesterday I was pretty darned tired of crawling some on my hands in addition to knees to unplug the affair in addition to switch it out for The Little Sewing Machine that Could. And Big Bertha is a heavy sucker. When Mike is home, he tin assist me. Yesterday, I hefted it into its carrying illustration on my own. I briefly considered using it to exercise some Bicep Curls, simply nah. I figure if I tin elevator it, I'm in all likelihood rigid enough. I'll move out the weight-lifting to the weaklings. Who's amongst me on that?
So anyway, I dragged my feet for virtually an hour, simply in addition to thence decided sewing was preferable to moping in addition to I got 'er done. Then I sewed together the dark in addition to white strips I withdraw for the Rainbow Jubilee blocks, trimmed them, in addition to cutting them into halves.
By that time, it was getting unopen to dinner, in addition to thence I put them out on my move tabular array in addition to called it a sewing day.
And in addition to thence I got to give the risotto. Oh, my. It is thence tasty. I solely brand this every twosome of years...when my provide of CSA crimson chard coincides amongst chanterelle mushroom season. It is the tastiest stuff.
When I made this way dorsum inward my before years of blogging, I wrote a picayune tutorial virtually how to larn inward in addition to included the recipe originally institute inward Sunset magazine. You can see that post correct here. It makes a pile of risotto. We had it for dinner terminal night, in addition to we'll stimulate got leftovers on Friday. Mike took some for his luncheon today.
So that brings me to this morning. I'm going nowhere today, simply I exercise stimulate got to a greater extent than housekeeping to do. I actually withdraw to rework my schedule thence that I don't stimulate got weeks of feast in addition to famine. Anyway...when that's done, I'll complete sewing those Rainbow blocks together in addition to and thence I'll gird upwards my loins to larn a outset on quilting Wind inward the Whiskers. I'll effort non to drag my feet today.