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Made Asian-glazed salmon last night, though for the spinach I sautéed some red peppers, mushrooms, onions, and sliced garlic in olive oil, then put in a fair amount of white wine and simmered that down, then added cream and heated it, then stirred in a whole bunch of spinach until it was cooked. Had it with white rice and it was delicious.
I love spinach--it's my favourite leaf vegetable--but it doesn't keep at all, and it's annoying to buy it and then have a bunch of it go bad (Meijer no longer offers bag-as-much-as-you-want greens). My attempts at growing it in an outdoor windowbox haven't been very successful either. I'm not sure trying to grow it in doors would be anything other than a nuisance, either, and we'd have to convince Miss Q that spinach shoots are not to be eaten as her grass is.
I think I've talked myself out of buying the swift that KnitPicks sells, even on sale. It'll be one more damn thing to find a place for at a time when I'm feeling overwhelmed by the stuff that we already own, and it's not something I would use that often. Mass Ave Knit Shop has a swift, though using it for yarn I haven't bought there doesn't feel quite polite. My last few ball-winding-by-hand attempts were much more successful than my first, after which I spent four evenings untangling the clusterfuck I'd made of a skein of sock yarn. The tabletop X-shaped swifts would be easy to make, and I've even seen instructions for making one out of hearts and kidneys are Tinkertoys.
And speaking of knitting, I'm 60% of the way done on Trillian. I wonder if I really try if I can finish it before the trip to Cleveland in two weeks?
I love spinach--it's my favourite leaf vegetable--but it doesn't keep at all, and it's annoying to buy it and then have a bunch of it go bad (Meijer no longer offers bag-as-much-as-you-want greens). My attempts at growing it in an outdoor windowbox haven't been very successful either. I'm not sure trying to grow it in doors would be anything other than a nuisance, either, and we'd have to convince Miss Q that spinach shoots are not to be eaten as her grass is.
I think I've talked myself out of buying the swift that KnitPicks sells, even on sale. It'll be one more damn thing to find a place for at a time when I'm feeling overwhelmed by the stuff that we already own, and it's not something I would use that often. Mass Ave Knit Shop has a swift, though using it for yarn I haven't bought there doesn't feel quite polite. My last few ball-winding-by-hand attempts were much more successful than my first, after which I spent four evenings untangling the clusterfuck I'd made of a skein of sock yarn. The tabletop X-shaped swifts would be easy to make, and I've even seen instructions for making one out of hearts and kidneys are Tinkertoys.
And speaking of knitting, I'm 60% of the way done on Trillian. I wonder if I really try if I can finish it before the trip to Cleveland in two weeks?