Spirogyra

I've been forcing myself to work on nothing but the alpaca scarf, since I spontaneously bought yarn and pattern instead of working on another UFO or stash yarn. My brain, however, is screaming out to make socks, or a stole, or gloves or anything but the thing I am working on now. I'll be fine, but I'm finding the rationalizations and debate going on in my head amusing.

Seriously, a voice in my brain is positively screaming. I wonder if I should be concerned.

The very instant I'm done, I'd like to cast on for Spirogyra. Sandy, bless her heart, is making a pair of these for her teenage son's girlfriend. He asked his mother to knit something for his girlfriend. It's so sweet, and yet so self-absorbed, just like a teenage boy.

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In Fair Shares and food news (Fair Shares ingredients in parentheses)[other local products in brackets]:

• Eggplant and tomato gratin (tomato, onion, thyme, eggplant, basil) served with turkey piccata--
  

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--so sorry--

• Peach salad (peaches, pea shoots) [mint from a feral patch in the alley, served with weiswurst from G&W]: marinate sliced peaches in olive oil, lemon juice, salt, black pepper, and a bit of cayenne. Toss with pea shoots, mint, and sliced prosciutto. Drizzle with marinade.

• Salt-roasted trout (trout, garlic, thyme) with salad (tomato, shoots)--


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• Roasted squash soup (butternut squash, onion, thyme, honey) with Yorkshire popovers (eggs)--

• Spoonbread (eggs, cheddar) served with (sliced peaches) [chives from our garden]--

Pizza with marinated tomatoes and cappicola (tomato, garlic, foccacia, goat cheese) [oregano from the garden]: Seriously, if I ran a bakery, I would be embarrassed to serve what Companion considers to be foccacia. It's soft, with no chewy crust, and is pale beyond belief. I had to come up with some way to salvage it and the pizza was the best I could do. Want some real local bread with a great chew? Pick up some lepinja from a local Bosnian bakery.