I tried out a new recipe and I think it was a hit.  I left off the topping, but other than that stuck close to Alton Brown’s Baked Mac and Cheese.

The girls had their first taste of catnip here.  They are going to love the big catnip bush that grows wild outside every summer.

I have finished another hat – the flapper one and it is so dang cute.  I’m going to have to make one for myself.  I was on my way out this morning to get some things to finish it up when I came across one man walking and one man in a car trailing him.  He claimed to be selling tree services.  Hmmm… seemed fishy to me, so I pulled back into the garage and called the police.

My instinct was screaming at me that something just wasn’t right.  Now there are a lot of branches down around here, but it seemed more like they were casing houses on a cold Tuesday morning than looking for trees to cut down.  I ended up staying home for the rest of the day.  I’ll get that hat embellished eventually.

I also got the turkey potpie fillings done.  I made enough for probably 10 9-inch pies.  Whoa… that’s a lot of turkey.

I have to say…I’m glad both of these tasks are done.  Off to the next projects.

It’s been a lazy Sunday around here and I decided to have a favorite fall snack.  Last year I did baked apples for the first time and they became a favorite around here.   Since there are lots of apples in the fridge I decided to whip myself up a snack today.

I sliced up two smallish apples, added a little water, apple pie spice – more cinnamon, a pat of butter, and a dash of brown sugar.  Then I microwaved it for 2 minutes.  Yum.  Sometimes I add raisins and walnuts.  Last year we bought apple baking dishes, but that takes way longer than a few minutes.

My other topic of the day is my little pirate kitty.

Last week Faygo managed to scratch his eye and it developed a ulcer.  We don’t know how he scratched it, but since he’s not a seeing cat (cataracts have made him blind) he does rub his face a lot more on everything.  For the past week I’ve been giving him 2 different eye drops 4x per day each – which means he’s getting meds every couple of hours.  I didn’t think it was looking good, but at our last doctor’s visit Saturday the doctor said it was looking great.  He removed the dead tissue and said now it will heal even faster. So another week of meds and he should be back to his normal self.

I’m also on day two of scheduled cat feedings.  Faygo needs a higher protein food, Tobey needs C/D, and a few of the other cats would benefit from the higher protein Wellness – so we’re trying a new routine.  Day one – not so good.  However, day two seems to be going better, so hopeful this will stick.  I’ve tried this in the past, but contrary to what all the reports said my insulin dependent kitty needed to regulate through free feeding.  However, he hasn’t needed insulin since March so scheduled meals may work.  I’ll keep you posted.

This one was particularly yummy.  Really…really good.  I’d be doing this one again this fall.  Instead of using tomatoes, I used some paste and that worked out really well.

It’s just a little blurry.

So I had no idea what to do with the cabbage that came with our CSA box.  I was going to do coleslaw, but it’s been such a cool summer that I’ve been having a taste for some soup.  So I found this great recipe for carrot, potato, and cabbage soup.  It was quite yummy.  It was very light and DH pronounced it very good.

I also was at a loss for what to do with some young turnips when my friend Sara who is sharing the CSA box with us mentioned the turnip apple salad.  Let’s just say this was very yummy and was gone in a flash.

I did a warping of cotton sock yarn on my new warping board.  I’m going to try this as a skinny scarf.  We’ll see. It’s a 2.5 yard warp.

I worked on my La Novia some more and it’s growing.  I also picked up my portion of the veggie share box, which I think I mentioned has been stretching my culinary skills.  Well I have to report, I like kale.  I had thought about titling this post – How to hide kale in plain sight? – but went with the simpler title.

I didn’t know I like it because it one of the veggies I never tried and you just don’t see kale on too many menus.  However, it was staring at me, so I decided I would put it on some pizza.  I quickly did a Google search to see if that would be fine and apparently it is not only fine, but I’m here to report tasty.  I have a little left over for my quesadilla quick meal this week.  In my search I found this fun Kale blog.  Not sure I could do 365-days of kale, but I would definitely pick this up in the future.  BTW, who says blogs are dead?  So not dead – that was very useful info on that blog.  Maybe 2004, but definitely not dead.

It rained the first half of the day, but I finally got out for my Saturday Sky picture when it started to clear up.

Hope you all are having a nice weekend and being safe if your celebrating the 4th of July.

They said something about rain maybe later.  At least it’s not so hot you melt just walking outside.  I hate that.  I would rather have it on the cooler side than hotter any day.  It’s the wool lover in me.

So we’re on week two of the CSA box and we are getting a lot of greens.  I think this has been a good experience for me because I’m stretching myself to use them.  This week we had tatsoi and last week I had some choi left over.  Well, I found this recipe on line and have to say I was pleasantly surprised how they mixed so well together.  I used sesame seed oil, garlic scrapes from the box, the greens, and ginger.  I then at the end splashed a little balsamic vinegar and a splash of soy sauce for flavor.  Yum.  Quick and easy too.

Wednesday I came home to a commotion.  Coco wanted out every two minutes.  Well we followed he over to the area and found baby bunnies and I mean just born bunnies.  This picture was taken the next day when the mother obviously returned during the night and plucked more fur to put over them.  Now I’m not sure if they are still there or not as it’s really covered over now.  I’m not sure she could move them, but I just can’t tell.  Well, we’ll find out in two weeks if they are out nibbling the grass around.

I followed this pattern and everything seemed to be going well, but then I decided I really wanted to use the elastic band, so how could I do that… I thought maybe a large button hole on the back.

Hmmm…. well that didn’t go so well, but it’s not so bad not to use it.  When I was putting the button hole in, I thought this would be so much simpler with knitting.  Cast off and then cast on – instant button hole.

One of my new found loves is the fountain pen.  I bought my first fountain pen and ink this past week.  This Poussiere de Lune translates to Moon Dust.  I love it and it’s an extra-fine nib Lamy.  Writing with it is just a joy.  It makes me want to write.  Of course I’m coveting their new special edition pink Lamy.

So we got our first delivery of the CSA this week and we got arugula.  Lots of arugula.  I made a pesto last night, which turned out just ok.

DH however fixed it up tonight with some chicken and put some more tasty things with it and it was much more mild tonight.  Last night it was way too bitey.

So, your stuck with a picture from Sunday brunch.  An asparagus frittata, using this recipe. It’s was delicious.  I picked the asparagus up at the local farmers market and it was wonderful.  Too bad (or good for me) that DH doesn’t like asparagus, so I was able to take the rest for lunch this week.  Yum.