I should start with an introduction to my family but I won't. Let me just jump in here with both feet and you can meet people as we go along. I've never written a blog before and I'm not sure if anyone is going to read it but I enjoy writing anyways.
Today is New Year's Eve and I'm almost finished my Christmas holiday from work. The first part was mostly spent studying for my final exam in my Payroll Legislation course but that's all over with now. I'm spending the day canning. My beets are boiling and the pears are in the oven processing. I still have to get to the apples. I have this wonderful book on preserving that I bought from Amazon called "How to Store your Garden Produce" by Piers Warren. It's a British book so there's a few differences in some of the terminology. For example canning is called bottling in Britain, which when you think of it makes more sense. It's been very useful, it not only tells you the best way to preserve each type of produce but explains each method as well.
I bought a Victoria Sampler pattern and the material for it just before Christmas. It's called Winter Box and it's part of the Beautiful Finishing series. I'll be starting it on Sunday as well as working on a few other VS patterns I have on the go Butterfly Lace Sampler and Happy Hearts Sweet Bag and Smalls. I hope to get a lot done Sunday and Monday before I have to return to the office.
I've also been spending time looking through a couple cookbooks. They were both recommended to me by the instructor at a food sustainability workshop I went to. The first one is "A Good Catch" by Jill Lambert. It has some excellent recipes for SeaChoice best choices fish and seafood. I really enjoyed looking through it and I added it to my Amazon wish list for my next order. The second one I'm still looking through but it's already been added to my wish list. It's "The Flexitarian Table" by Peter Berley, a wonderful guide to cooking for vegetarians, carnivores and everybody in between without having to make separate meals. I'm looking forward to trying some of the recipes before I have to take it back to the library.
I hope you enjoyed this first posting and let me know what you think.
