Sweet Potato Week

This is a sweet potato week for me.  I am on a kick for sweet potatoes.  Dinner last night was a peeled diced sweet potato drizzled with olive oil, salt, pepper, wrapped in foil and baked for an hour.  I had some green beans and a dollop of cottage cheese with it. 

Recipes I have in mind for sweet potato week are:  Kale, white bean and sweet potato soup; sweet potato and black bean quesadillas; sauteed sweet potatoes and spinach; and I am toying with the idea of making a sweet potato hummus.

Last night I bound off the edges on another organic cotton baby sweater.  Today will be weaving in all those pesky ends, choosing a button and sewing it on, and crocheting a button loop.  Then it will be finito and off to the recipient.  I am quite ready for that to happen.

Eldest Daughter was down to visit a couple of Saturdays ago.  We had a nice visit.  We shopped for Halloween goodies to mail to the Little Buddy and his stepsisters.  I found a darling long sleeve red tee at Target that read Here Comes Trouble and had three cute monsters on it.  Naturally, I had to buy it for him.

I think he liked all his Halloween goodies.

And the Little Buddy sure loves Pez — what kid doesn’t?

And last but not least, the Little Buddy decided to be a pirate for Halloween again this year.  He loves to say AAAAARGH.

 

November Already

And now begins the downward slide to Christmas.  Eh.  My to do list is already fairly long.  I hope I manage to get it all done.  We shall see!

I actually dressed up for Halloween this year.  The pug and I dressed up and went over to the children’s festival at the church and walked around passing out candy.  Lola did very well, although she really didn’t care for wearing her costume.  She let the kids pet her and we only had one incident.  There was a small boy, perhaps age 3, dressed in a dog suit.  I was trying to let him get a candy bar out of the bucket, and I couldn’t figure out why she kept trying to jump on him and knock him down.  The reason — he had a real milkbone hung around his neck!  Ha ha!  His dad broke off a piece of it and gave it to her.

So here we are at the house of a friend of mine.  NINJA and TURTLE.  We stopped there on our way home.  She had made a beverage called Pumpkin Smash and I wanted to try it — pumpkin liqueur, chocolate liqueur, hazelnut liqueur, and vanilla vodka.  It was pretty yummy!

I have had this next picture on my phone forever.  I am now able to move to the next level in my knowledge of technology and email photos from my phone to myself.  This is an organic cotton baby sweater that I made a year ago.

And finally — the pug watching Journey to the Center of the Earth — LOL!

 

Rainy Thursday in ICT

 I love reading the Simply Recipes food blog.  I always get great ideas and I make many of the vegetarian recipes I find there.  Recently there was a recipe for pear butter which I found to be intriguing.  So I got all the stuff — except star anise.  I couldn’t find it, so I just sprinkled in some allspice and I think it worked fine.  I spent a recent Sunday afternoon making a batch of pear butter.  I got 11 jars out of about 6 lbs of pears.  It has a lovely flavor and I think I may make another batch to give as gifts. 

I finished a recycled sari silk scarf and decorated the ends with some old looking coin type decorations.  This scarf was to be sold at a benefit for a young woman who is going to Kenya in January to work at a children’s camp.  One of my friends purchased it and says she loves it, so I am happy about that.

I am still knitting dishcloths for Africa trips, finishing a baby sweater as a gift, several pairs of socks.  And I need to get started on a couple of things I want to do for Christmas.  I believe it was at the Purl Bee’s webpage that I found a pattern for vintage looking dish towels knit with organic cotton.  I am thinking that might be a perfect gift for my aunt this Christmas.

The pug and I went to a cookout Saturday evening and I put her in her costume for a bit.  She looks so funny! 

My church does a trunk or treat event every year.  I think the pug and I will go and walk around for a bit and hand out candy.  She will love it.  She can wear her turtle costume and I think I will dress up as a ninja!  Great fun!