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Sunday Sky Version

Madame Purl — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 14:53:46 +0000

I’m trying to finish up a few things around here today, so much knitting and not much talking.

We did manage to catch the sun going down and bouncing off the watertower. Against the background of dark, dark clouds, it was a gorgeous site.

Other then that we got our baked apples and I ate mine with delight. I think the juice in the bottom was the best. Talk about a fairly healthy treat though. Yum!

Cravings Drive Everything

Madame Purl — Fri, 16 May 2008 02:55:02 +0000

I was having a something fierce craving for chicken piccata today. I decided to give it a whirl on my own. Once a again a recipe I found on allrecipes.com. Pretty simple. I added the capers and used the suggestions from the first reviewer. This is definitley a keeper. Very yummy.

Tomorrow it’s leftovers and back to the knitting. No this has not turned into a foodie blog. My shawl is progressing nicely and it’s time to give a little show and tell.

Dinner

Madame Purl — Wed, 14 May 2008 15:22:23 +0000

So last night I took the day off to rest and decided to make up a little supper. I found a new fish recipe and decided to pair it with my very favorite potato recipe. Since they turned out well, I thought I would share them with you.

So my tasty super simple potato recipe came from a friend and I don’t know where she got it, but it’s easy peasy and can be done in the over or on the grill.

I peeled and cubed 6 potatoes and 1 larger size yellow onion. I added a few pats of butter and some salt and pepper to taste.

Bake until potatoes are soft and you have this lovely.

DH and I bought salmon from Wild Pacific Salmon, which I can wholly recommend. They have excellent customer service and we really picked up our good for you fish eating habits. We ordered 15 pounds in the late summer/early fall and were through that about February or March, so we put another order in for 15 more pounds.

Since so much is down in my freezer and it’s so easy to fix after a long day. I’m always on the look out for good salmon recipes. I used a super simple recipe I found on allrecipes.com, it consists of salmon, lemon, and rosemary sprigs, with a dash of salt and olive oil. I forgot to add the olive oil, but it was still delicious and I will be doing more of this dish. This is what it looked like when I put it together.

This is plated.

Dealing With Leftovers

Madame Purl — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 03:51:39 +0000

First let me say Thank You to everyone for the birthday wishes and nice comments about Butterfly. I haven’t gotten through all my emails yet, but you will all be getting one back from me. I had a really nice birthday. Beautiful books for my collection as someone went a teeny bit crazy on my Amazon list. A great dinner and then finished up another project while hanging out and watching two movies.

So what do you do what turkey day left overs? For us it’s all about the pot pie. Really not as much left overs as I thought. We had a 14-pound bird for two. Yes, seems like a lot, but after the big day and one meal of leftovers – not so much. It amounted to 9 cups of turkey. So this is the recipe I use – it took me about 1.5 hours from start to finish to get the filling put up for what looks to be 5 pies.

This is the filling.

This is the first pie.

This is 4 more filling that went to my freezer.