Thursday, September 23, 2010

A Recipe and A Hat

I've been meaning to post about a recipe I made last week, and I finally downloaded pictures today. I was looking for something else to do with cherry tomatoes from my garden and also wanted a dinner with chicken. I looked at a bunch of recipes online and came up with Parmesan Crusted Chicken with Roasted Cherry Tomatoes (with some oven roasted potatoes):


I coated the chicken in egg and parmesan cheese mixed with some italian spices. It went in an 8x8 glass baking dish with the cherry tomatoes (which I coated in EVOO and tossed with salt and pepper) and baked for 25 minutes or so on 350. The potatoes were just tossed with EVOO, salt, pepper, crushed red pepper and a little garlic. I did put the chicken under the broiler for about 5 minutes on each side to crisp up the parmesan, but I don't think it was absolutely necessary. The tomatoes kept the chicken cooking in their juices, so the chicken was super moist. Yum. Tasty, tasty, tasty.

After ripping out my Salem Hooded Jacket yesterday, I decided I needed something to knit that was quick and easy:


Pattern: Pasha by Jane Richmond
Yarn: MadelineTosh Merino DK (an experimental base-single ply superwash merino) in Posy
Modifications: I did a beanie version instead of a slouchy version. I cut out one pattern repeat and used a smaller gauge. 



Ah, there's nothing like an instant gratification project. Made me feel better about ripping out an entire sweater! 

I've also been sewing quite a bit since my last post. My mom sold about half of the initial batch of bags I sent her with, so I wanted to make some more so there were plenty for the Southern Adirondack Fiber Festival this weekend. 

I tweaked the drawstring bags and am much happier with this version:


I also made some small zip bags for things like stitch markers, tape measures, etc:


After I talked to you the other day, I stopped at the quilt store to stock up on fabric for more bags and bought a TON more fabric. Ha. 

I love what you did with F's front yard! It looks great! wanna come take care of my yard?

Love,
liz :)

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