The Bookish Knitster

Taking a photo test

Yep...I'm on vacation drinking margaritas in the Columbus waiting for my homegirls to pick me up!

Testing photos

It wasa big week in the knitsters car life... Someday maybe I'll own one with less than 200000 miles!

Testing from my iPhone

Testing the typepad app.

The countdown has begun

Just coming up for air. . .I have definitely put too much on my plate this semester. . .now I'm counting down to the end of semester.  The big reliever is that I have a vacation the week of Thanksgiving!  Get to visit family and dear friends...and breathe.  I'm not a Hallelujah! kind of person, but "Hallelujah!"  The light at the end of the tunnel is just a twinkle, but it's a twinkle nevertheless. 

Shots from the Garden

Now that I have a backyard I get to have a garden.  Soon-to-be Mr. Bookishknitster (or SMB?) and I have done a ton of planting this year.  We grew a variety of basils, thyme, a couple types of rosemary, sage, a few types of hot peppers, and a pleathora of other flowering plants.  When we bought the house we became the owners of a peach and orange tree, too.

The orange tree is completely laden with fruit right now.  The oranges are completely green at this point.  There are so many I fear what we will do with all the oranges when they are ripe!  I think having fruit and veggie gardens are a grand idea.  But, seriously, what do you do with all the stuff you grow?  How do you have enough time to can, freeze, jamify, etc...all the food at harvesting time?  I think the only way to do it all is if you don't have to go to work.  Or maybe I am just lazy!  Anyone want some oranges?  They'll be ready soon.

 We also have peppers!  I'm a girl who loves the hot and spicy when it comes to her eatin'. I know it's been a good meal when my lips are burning from the heat.    Well, this little puppies are serious.  Just one will do you in.  SMB's (okay...maybe that isn't a good acronym for my sweet man) dad grows a variety of peppers also.  He dried a mix of them and then mortered and pestled them to a powder.  We had dinner with them a while back, and they cooked with this pepper powder.  What a fantastic flavor and burn!  It's my goal to try and mimick Papa SMB's powder.  Can I do it?  I don't know...but I'm gonna try.  The peppers are drying right now.

Since I'm on the topic of food - SMB (I'm still trying it out) is in the kitchen cooking Chicken Tikka and Cilantro Yogurt Sauce for dinner. The spice list includes most of my favorites - mustard, cayenne, chinese 5-spice, tumeric, mint, cilantro and ginger. It's in the October 2008 Food and Wine.  In fact there is a whole section on curries in that issue. I put my vote in for a curry week at the knitster's house. Any curry lovers out there? I would gladly swap recipes!