Come Dancing!

Let me start off by saying I absolutely cannot dance, though the post title may suggest I intend to.  Let me assure you, I don't.  I do, however, intend to listen to the Kinks.

I have been making some killer meals and baked goods and knitted FOs lately!  Summer is amazing for Coon Rock Farm CSA produce.  The last few weeks have been filled with beautifully sweet yellow and orange grape tomatoes, green beans, new potatoes, and corn.  Corn on the cob used to be my favorite food as a kid, but once I got to high school I dismissed it for whatever reason.  That means that it has probably been seven or eight years since I have had corn on the cob, which is ridiculous.  It has resumed favorite food status, although these days it's more of a group of foods rather than singling out any one.

Tonight, I made some tasty broiled ginger-soy eggplant, last year's home-canned crowder peas, and corn on the cob.  So yummy and beyond affordable.  The ginger-soy sauce on the eggplant was really simple, fresh ginger, soy sauce, garlic, red pepper, sugar, sesame oil.  I started the crowder peas in some chicken stock with bacon-sauteed onion and garlic.  A quick broil for the eggplant and boiling of the corn after the beans had gotten a good head start and that was that!  I guess I boiled the corn somewhere in there.



I have been knitting lately with probably the most satisfying skein of my knitting career, Lucia from Dirty Water Dyeworks.  I won this in a drawing for Holla Knits--thanks, Allyson!  She has had a crazy number of giveaways so far.  Superwash merino with 25% nylon, the Seaweed colorway is drop-dead gorgeous.  I made the Basketweave Neckerchief (pattern from another project Allyson is affiliated with; proceeds go to WORK+SHELTER), and I'm so happy with how it turned out.



The colors are just spellbinding, and the basketweave manages to showcase the color variations while still looking smooth and fluid.  I sometimes am disappointed with how color variation comes across in sock patterns.  It can make it look kind of random and mottled, but I think this was the perfect compromise.  The subtle pooling makes me so happy.  I'm working on some fabulous fingerless mitts to go with!  I'll show off those, oh, next month or whenever my next post is.