Day: October 27, 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.