Eats

Recently made

• Pumpkin chocolate-chip muffins and bread
• No-knead bread
  
• We've had the five-minute tomato sauce for dinner probably four times in the past two weeks. I love it. I threw some spinach into it a couple of times.
• I made martini-style chicken breasts again and enjoyed the fact that one breast, pounded and covered in cheese, easily feeds two.
• I made the Spanish bean soup after overhearing two unrelated people asking at the store for "smoked paprika" so they could try a recipe in the Oregonian. I didn't find the smoked paprika either, and the soup probably would have benefited from it. It was kind of bland. It has potential, but I'm not sure I'm the person to take it there.
• Turkish red lentil soup. Add more tomato paste and paprika and a couple cloves of garlic.

Thinking of trying

• Jamie Oliver's roast chicken with lemon and rosemary roast potatoes and perfect braised spinach, both here. Jamie thinks 4½ pounds of potatoes serves four?
  
• Curry cauliflower soup
• Vanilla Meyer Lemonade
• Cannellini bean & garlic sausage cassouolet--Maybe, without the crumb topping?
• Spanish rice

And lots of other things starred in Google Reader.

I kind of wish I could easily put together a list of knits completed or attempted in 2007, but it would take a lot of work and there wouldn't be much of a payoff, I don't think. But I'll try to be better this year.

The last FO of 2007 was my first pair of Monkey socks, gifted to my mother. They were Knit Picks Essential in gray. I forgot to take a picture.

Last week at knitting group I cast on for a pair of socks and at the end of the night realized I'd messed up the 2x2 ribbing. D'oh. I haven't knit since and tonight is another knitting night. I guess I'll rip it out and try again.