Knittingprose

conquering a world of spills, crafts and bills

A good pot of soup…

| January 12, 2011

Here in the midwest you never know what kind of weather you’re gonna wake up to.  Fourteen years ago, just before I permanently moved here, I remember waking up to snow covering everything when the week before it had been 85 degrees out.  St. Louis weather is never a disappointment when it comes to variety.  [...]

Pickles, pickles, and more pickles…

| July 21, 2010

Cucumbers.  Lots and lots… and lots of cucumbers.  That’s what we have and most of them are ginormous.  Something had to give with the cukes.  It’s nothing for us to go out, pick 5 and the next evening pick 10 more.  As they piled up on the counter, I managed to sort out some smaller [...]

a new recipe…

| March 1, 2010

Since I’ve been non-existent in the blogging world during hibernation season, I thought I might peek my head out into the wild web and offer a cozy soup recipe I worked up this afternoon.  I boiled some chicken for a pot pie and had this lovely stock leftover.  I just couldn’t stand to let it [...]

Awesome bread…

| September 19, 2009

While our last round of bread baking wasn’t exactly a blunder, I knew there was better bread to be had.  And, oh my, was I right.  I tried baking a loaf of the American Sandwich Bread last week and it was pretty good.  A tiny bit dense, but I think I may have just about [...]