Good morning, happy Monday to you!
I have temporarily scaled back my crafting due to an overwhelming and super-mandatory online course with an approaching deadline. Boo. I promise to create some hideous/uninspired art work for you all to enjoy as soon as that is done.
Here’s this week’s Monotonous Monday cross-stitching update:
You’ll recall that I warned you against false hope last week. This is my I-told-you-so moment. Incremental progress at best. Wait till I have a long weekend.. then you will see some actual growth.
In the meantime, I did manage to make some oatmeal raisin cookies with the recipe from Annie’s Eats. Yes, I am essentially a parasitic blog for her lovely, useful site. I’m not even going to feign symbiosis.
Oatmeal raisin is my favourite kind of cookie and these ones are delicious. Too bad I can only give you a picture and not pass them out through virtual land. I know you want one.
I also spent WAAAY too long making chicken chili verde this weekend. While chopping peppers, I got jalapeño pepper juice in a little hangnail-type cut on my finger- ouch! I didn’t think it would be anything terrible, but it got all hot and pulsy and took three soakings in milk (including one this morning!) to cure. Typical me.
Anyways, that recipe in the Joy of Cooking takes 2.5 hours. I’m so glad I doubled it and had lots to freeze because it doesn’t matter how good a dinner tastes, no single dinner is worth spending 2.5 hours of my weekend slaving over a hot stove. Literally. I was so exhausted by the end of it, I had no appetite and didn’t even bother tasting it. I’d show you a picture but it looked kind of icky and watery. I’m assured by my husband that it was in fact edible…
Despite the crafting dearth around these parts, I have a simple one to tell you about later in the week. Something to look forward to in these January-and-online-course-induced-dark days.
stupid crafts 