Knitting in (almost) Tuscany

Yesterday I was knitting in the sun, a colorful yarn that made me feel I wa in Tuscany, in a vineyard.... My next project is a blanket to watch tv with and it's going to be in five coordinating warm colors. I was trying the stitch pattern with this yarn because colors make me feel so happy (I still remember the "black" scarf I knitted one Christmas...)

Mediterranean bread

At home, it's very difficult to take a photo of something before Luke eats half of it. As soon as I open the oven, Luke already has a piece of it, no matter how much I use every technique i know to separate him from the think that I just baked and it's still burning. I never could take a photograph of the banana bread, or the seeds bread... Today, I felt a little more mediterranean, and I made an olive bread. Before putting it in the oven, i brushed it with olive oil and sea salt and rosemay freshly grinded.
It looks like lately I'm only cooking, but I'm knitting too. I don't have photos though. I'm almost finishing my scarf, started the last pair of Carol's famous booties (CBF from now on) and I'm designing Luke's hat (vivid colors, I'm still thinking how to combine them, and letting some time pass so he can decide if he really wants it or not) Also a pair of small projects, ones that requiere less time, but I still have to find the time to make them!

Animated knitting

I'm a little muggle for technology, I discovered Youtube quite recently. And I found this animation about knitting. Enjoy it!

To see it: The Last Knit

Christmas Cookies

This is my fourth year trying Jeff's grandma's Christmas Cookie recipe and it's the fourth year I've struck out! I think it's going to take me a while before I perfect the recipe. And I think the dealing with the altitude makes it even more difficult. But after baking all day I came out with OK cookies. They're too crispy and the flavor is off (I'm not really sure why), but they're still decent. They're not like Grandma's but I tried! There's always next year I guess!!

What I eat today

This is what I cooked today for lunch. There was a salad of tomato, olive oil, and anchovies ( I know in America they are quite unpopular, but here in the Mediterranean, everything salty and fishy that comes from the Romans is really woven in our culture)
As the main dish I cooked a Fideua, is similar to a paella, but you use a special kind of short noodles with a small hole in the center, and it's made with fish broth. I didn't have a lot of shrimps to decorate, so I used surimi instead (trick discovered while being at the University, how to eat well with small money) You also need tomato, onion and garlic. I though they were cute, so they deserved a sok post!

Banana Bread!

I'm not sure if I'm doing this right because everything is in Spanish! I've realized that it's because I'm signed in as the School of Knitters. But here's my posting of Carol's World Famous Banana Bread, and after one failed attempt, it finally came out they way it should... ¡PERFECTO! The first time I was too careless with mixing the ingredients, and this time I kept everything seperated. More importantly, I remembered the baking soda! That made quite the difference!

Christmas heart

This is the prototype of my Christmas ornaments for this year. The other alternative was to knit small green botties to hang in the tree. For some reason, I already had enough of booties (I still have to knit the las pair of the year before Christmas) And even if I have to sew them by hand instead of a sewing machine it lloks like a bootie rest for me. In fact, when I made it, I discovered that I should have strated sewing it in a different point. So now, I know exactly where to do it, and a stitch that you can barely see to end it. The plan is making it with the fabrics you can see in the previous post, (if you can't see them, wait a couple of days, sometimes blogger is a little lazy and it takes me a while to upload the little images) and, if I fell adventurous enough, maybe adding lace to some of them.