♥ The Paper Mama Pacific NW | Pumpkin gnocchi offer simple comfort for the fall season SOMETIMES CULINARY triumphs come in the humblest packages. Take the modest Italian dumplings known as gnocchi. Gnarly little knobs of nothing more than flour, eggs and sometimes vegetables, gnocchi are the most primitive form of pasta imaginable. Yet, made correctly, they can have an ethereal goodness that defies their earthy nature. When I was the chef at Friday Harbor House in the early 1990s, I used to get flowers and vegetables from Nootka Rose Farm on Waldron Island. The produce was delivered via boat twice a week, and every time it arrived was like Christmas morning. One late summer day when the boxes from Waldron arrived, I saw the yellow Finn potatoes and knew instantly that they would become potato gnocchi. As fate would have it, a group of Italian cyclists was staying at the inn that night, and they all ordered the gnocchi. Gratified, I started making gnocchi more often — and not just with potatoes. Greg Atkinson is a chef instructor at Seattle Culinary Academy. Serves 4 1. 2.
not martha The Crafty Penguin Classy Clutter corn fritters Here are some corn fritters. They are pretty popular in our house and I forget how easy they are to make. I used the recipe here (from everyday food) but then added green onions, some spices, and other things, but I don't remember what, this was a while ago and I make them different everytime. Related to food, but with no photo, I made a brown betty (minus the currants which I couldn't find) from the Rustic Fruit Desserts books recently when I found myself up to my eyes in apples. Anyhoo, brown bettys are baked apple with a lot breadcrumbs (instead of a pie crust or topping) and usually a lot of butter and sugar.
Tinted Mason Jars in Rainbow I love using mason jars for decorating and a seemingly endless supply of craft projects. But rainbow tinted mason jars, just like the vintage ones you can never find anymore? This one might be my favorite project with mason jars yet! Mason Jars Mod Podge in Gloss (buy it here) Food coloring Ramekins to mix colors Newspaper or paper bag Mix food coloring with a T or so of water into individual ramekins. Add a couple T of mod podge into your mason jar Add one ramekin of color into the jar and stir to incorporate it all together With a bowl underneath, carefully twist the jar around coating the whole inside with the mod podge/food coloring mixture. Let dry upside down on the paper Do the same with the other colors. Place the jars face down on top of wax paper and a cookie sheet into an oven, set on warm. When they're ready, they'll look clear and the mixture should lose most of its streaks.
punk projects The Looks For Less » Blog Archive » Manicure Mondays – Feather Nails My sister is back in Florida visiting from Washington and we’re having so much fun together! She did the way popular lace manicure for me last month and I dared her to come up with another manicure as fun as the last. We ended up in Michael’s with a cart full of feathers and boas and this is what we came up with. Feather Nails Manicure Ingredients: Bag of {faux} FeathersA Base CoatA Base ColorThick Clear Top CoatTweezers To recreate my feather nails, first prep your nails with a base coat – I used Essie’s Protein Base Coat , followed by a base color. Next, top one nail with Seche Vite Dry Fast Top Coat and press a feather into the nail using tweezers quickly before it dries. Thanks so much to my sister for another fun manicure!
Peanut Butter Pretzel Bites — Buns In My Oven Walk away. No, wait. RUN away. I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but I have a bit of a thing for chocolate and peanut butter. Peanut Butter Pretzel Bites recipe from Foodaphilia 1 cup creamy peanut butter2 tbsp softened butter1/2 – 1 cup powdered sugar3/4 – 1 cup brown sugarPretzels1 bag semi-sweet chocolate chips Combine the peanut butter, butter, 1/2 cup of powdered sugar, and 3/4 cup of brown sugar in a mixer. Roll the mixture into small balls (about 1 tsp of the mixture for each ball). Melt the chocolate in a double broiler or carefully in a microwave. Don’t miss a post!
Shoelace Methods Mathematics tells us that there are more than 2 Trillion ways of feeding a lace through the six pairs of eyelets on an average shoe. This section presents a fairly extensive selection of 50 shoe lacing tutorials. They include traditional and alternative lacing methods that are either widely used, have a particular feature or benefit, or that I just like the look of. 50 Different Ways To Lace Shoes Criss Cross Lacing This is probably the most common method of lacing normal shoes & boots. Over Under Lacing This method reduces friction, making the lacing easier to tighten and loosen plus reducing wear and tear. Gap Lacing This simple variation of Criss Cross Lacing skips a crossover to create a gap in the middle of the lacing, either to bypass a sensitive area on the instep or to increase ankle flexibility. Straight European Lacing This traditional method of Straight Lacing appears to be more common in Europe. Straight Bar Lacing Hiking / Biking Lacing Quick Tight Lacing Ukrainian Lacing- New!