Archive for October 27th, 2018
Turkey Tracks: Yummy Soup!
Turkey Tracks: October 27, 2018
Yummy Soup!
I roasted a chicken the other day.
Roasted chicken always means making soup broth. With the Histamine Intolerance, I can’t make bone broths that cook for 24 hours any more—long cooking equals too much histamine in the food. But I’ve been able to make a quick broth with the bones and carcass that cooks about an hour.
I am so happy because I really love soup!
This soup is filled with local veggie goodies and two boneless chicken breasts cut into pieces. I had some cooked kate to add, some peas from the spring pea crop I blanched and froze, carrots, red peppers, leeks, cauliflower, the tiny last baby zucchini from my garden, and fresh garlic. These veggies all cook really quickly after being sweated for a bit in the pan to add more flavor.
I added some rice noodles that I cooked separately in the bottom of my soup bowl.
Yes, a yummy soup dinner and leftovers for lunch the next day.
Turkey Tracks: This One’s Ready to Sew Together
Turkey Tracks: October 27, 2018
This One’s Ready to Sew Together
This scrappy quilt is my own design. I’ve been working on it for some time now. I bought the sashing material from Becca Babb-Brott at least three or four years ago. (Becca has the Etsy store, Sew Me A Song.)
The 4 1/2-inch block centers are “made” fabric from my smaller scraps. Both Bonnie Hunter and Victoria Findlay Wolfe “make” fabric in this way. Along the way I began adding in some novelty fabrics to sprinkle throughout the quilt.
I used the Companion Angle ruler to cut the flying geese—but in a novel way to get the top flat edge—which I learned from Bonnie Hunter while making one of her mystery quilts—the Italian-inspired one I think, Allietore. I used the Easy Angle ruler for the flying geese small triangles. And all pieces were cut from 2-inch strips.
I’ve got the cutest backing for this quilt, and I can’t wait to longarm quilt it. That day is coming up fast now. I’m not sure what I’ll use for binding yet. I might use either the sashing or the backing fabric to bind. The quilt has not told me what it wants yet.