Homemade Pasta

I finally made pasta from scratch, and I can't believe it took me so long.  It was so EASY, and the pasta tasted great!  Additionally, while I didn't do a cost analysis, I think it is also cheaper than boxed pasta.

My husband thought they looked like cartoon noodles, which I think made my kid's more willing to try them (the kids liked them by the way).

This is the recipe I used.  It is super simple, and seems endlessly adaptable.  If you haven't tried to make your own pasta yet, you should.

Baking Bread

I love Harry Potter, and I am constantly finding ways in which the book mirrors reality (I know, I'm a dork).  The instances in which my life mirrors the book are few and far between. Believe it or not, for me, baking bread is one of those instances in which I feel like I am living the fantasy.  Some how, during mysterious alchemical processes (or perfectly understandable chemical reactions which I chose to ignore), water, flour, yeast, and a few other simple ingredients combine to make bread.

So today in potions......bread.

Doesn't that seem like magic?

High Fiber Diet

I would like to introduce the latest in high fiber foods. The eggplant.
I am so happy about the way this turned out.

The original pattern is Baby Fruit and Veggie Rattle Patterns by Allison Judge; however, the pattern makes the leaves look like they are growing directly out of the top of the eggplant. Since I have never seen an eggplant that looks like the pattern, I picked up the stitches at the cast on edge, and knitted up, decreasing between the leaves every other row (give or take a row), until there were 4 stitches left, then i-corded the stem. The leaves tended to roll up, so I tacked them down on either side with some thread.

I used Lion Brand Fishermen's Wool, that I hand dyed the appropriate colors, and US6 double pointed needles.

I love, love, love the finished product!

If I knit it again I will probably knit it from the top down, rather than the bottom up, and avoid picking up quite as many stitches.