Fall-ish Activities

This was the purpose for the whole pumpkin adventure - Black Bean and Pumpkin soup. The recipe is from Once Upon a Tart, one of the most crazy awesome cookbooks ever. Some of the recipes are a little labor intensive, but totally worth the time that you put into them. The food photography is definitely drool inducing as well. This soup was a little more black beany than pumpkiny (which I should have anticipated looking at the black bean to pumpkin proportions in the recipe) for what I was in the mood for, but very good nonetheless. I garnished it with some fresh parmesan and my roasted pumpkin seeds. Oh yum. I saw a recipe for pumpkin and pear soup somewhere, maybe I'll try that next to see if it satisfies the pumpkin craving!



Last night was Stitch n' Bitch night, so I started a new project. These will be wrist warmers to match the hat that I made for my sister-in-law. I felt a little lame just giving her a hat, since it took me like two days to make. I'm kinda winging this pattern as I go along and I'm really digging it. I love how the seed stitch looks. There is going to be ribbing at the top in the brown/white variegated yarn (which is local - yay!). It's going to end up being more loose and flopping rather than the traditional form fitting wrist warmers. We'll have to see how they end up, but I have high hopes!

Oh - and I totally forgot, with all the woe is me, I hate my job right now, moping about, etc. to link to the article that was written about my outreach work in the paper. Good job stuff here. I thought the article was great except for the part where they quoted me saying a DOUBLE NEGATIVE. Oh the little english nerd inside me cringed to read the super valley girl sentence: ""A lot of people say they can't dance," she said. "To me, that's so 'un-entirely' not true. I think everybody can dance." Like, for sure. (Silently screaming).