Open to All Otters

Episode 12

April 4, 2019

Now on Spotify and pocket casts

On the Needles 3:34

My Leftie: Miss Babs Yummy fingering in slate & reds (baby yarn in aubergine, lady bug, mahogany, ruby spinel and tulipa)

Imagined Landscapes Imagikniting KAL

DONE!

 

Willow Cowl by Amelia Lyon, Desert Vista Dyeworks DK (100% merino), Orcas colorway (black, white, lavender, lilac)

DONE!

 

Garter Stitch Baby Kimono by Joji Locatelli, Three Irish Girls Adorn sock (80/20 merino/nylon SW), Smoke on the Water Whisper

Socks: Regia design line by Arne and Carlos

On the Easel 14:00

Paintings for the babies!!

#100DayProject with Lindsay Jean Thompson. starts April 2nd!  I’m doing #100Chromatics.

Finished Oil painting class with Erika Lee Sears on Creative Bug

Board and Brush

On the Table 22:58

More Smitten Kitchen Every Day:

• Carmelized Cabbage Risotto,
• Dutch Boy with Mushroom Sauce
  • Couldn’t find savory but several breakfast ones
• romesco/egg/chickpea/spinach bowl

 

I cooked a WHOLE (well, half) salmon in parchment!

Special sauce that Monica won’t let me say on the air. (wink wink)

EXTRA HELPINGS: Spring food favorites

Absurdly addictive asparagus from Food52.com

All the asparagus. Including the strata (I build mine in a loaf pan with sliced sourdough layers).

Shrimp Scampi from How to Cook Everything by Mark Bittman.  (I also love his How to BAKE Everything cookbook)

Melting Potatoes from Smitten Kitchen

Strawberry-Rhubarb Cobbler from Fields of Greens by Annie Somerville

All the strawberries. Including from-scratch biscuits

Short Stacks Editions, also check Amazon

On the Nightstand 44:10

Everything Here is Beautiful by Mira T. Lee

Witch of Willow Hall by Hester Fox

Ritz and Escoffier: The Hotelier, the Chef, and the Rise of the Leisure Class by Luke Barr

Kinship of Secrets by Eugenia Kim

Baby Teeth by Zoje Stage

Golden State by Ben H. Winters