Mim’s Blog

When you get out of the habit of blogging, it’s hard to remember to start up again :) I’ve been a busy girl, especially since this is canning season. This weekend alone produced 14 Quarts and 1 pint of dill pickles, a batch of amazingly wonderful honeydew and nectarine ice cream, and a [...]

Secret knitting and a week of being away from home makes for very boring blogging. I’ve been taking my 365 self portraits regularly though, and tending my garden. We treated the garden with fish emulsion (and I did some green waste puree on my own), and then I left for 5 days. [...]

Andromeda has been done for some time, but I just hadn’t taken pictures of her.

Pattern: Andromeda shawl, pattern forthcoming.
Yarn: Impulse of Delight, Bluefaced Bliss. 100% Blue-faced Leicester, approx. 375 yards per 110 grams. less than 2 skeins of “Blue Skies”. This yarn is luscious! It has a lovely bit [...]

The thing I love most about summer and the warmer months is the fresh produce. During the summer I head to my local farmer’s market every weekend and return home laden down with fruits and vegetables that were just too beautiful to pass up. I sometimes buy more than I can carry and [...]

Just for clarification, I like my tea with half and half or cream. Either one is good with me.
Everyone is entitled to their opinions about what should go in tea, but don’t be a hater ‘cuz I like the cream ;)
Love and kisses,
Miriam

The morning sun is struggling through the approaching storm clouds outside, but I am bundled in flannel pj pants and a hoodie, with felted clogs on my feet.
In a minute I will go downstairs, cut myself a piece of Blackberry Galette* and pour a big handthrown pottery mug full of tea, British style with cream [...]

… because this is a cooking post with no pictures.
Since I started my new job, actual serious cooking has been rare and coming in spurts. I am tired when I get home and we usually eat sandwiches or order a pizza or something similarly lazy.
But yesterday I started thinking about what to have for [...]

This weekend I bought some beautiful heirloom tomatoes at the Downtown Farmer’s Market. I just love the colors of heirlooms. And their skins are thin and lovely instead of being bred to be thick and tough. They’re just the perfect taste of summer! One of them combined with other local ingredients [...]

I am plodding along, quite busy, and then WHAM! It hits me that I haven’t blogged for more than a week, and sketchily before that.
What happened!?
Well, in list form:
1. Work has been busy. I’ve been getting ready for the new academic year and some new duties that I’ve been given, which include [...]

As I strolled through the farmer’s market on Saturday, I saw flats of gorgeous raspberries and peaches and nectarines, all calling out to me, reaching for me through their various fragrances, wanting to jump into my bag. But I was a good girl and didn’t buy any of them, because I knew that I [...]

New York was awesome! I had a great time hanging out with Bakerina and her more manly half Lloyd.
Bakerina gave me the quick and dirty foodie tour of New York by first initiating me into the delectable world of New York City Pizza. C asked me how it was different and I tried [...]

I’m back from my trip and working on a post or two about it, but I had to spend today catching up at work and now I’m tired. I’ll get a post up tomorrow. But for now, I’ve got some jam available in my etsy shop. I have 4 12 oz jars [...]

A Quickie Aside: Did you all see the new knitty? Coachella blew my mind! What ingenious construction!

I never remember quite how happy the Downtown Farmer’s Market makes me until it opens again. Every Saturday morning, I love getting up early, knowing that I will come home with fantastically fresh produce and [...]

When I saw Carole’s interview I couldn’t resist asking for some questions of my own! She was kind enough to oblige and here they are, with my answers :)
1. Tell us what it’s like to live in Salt Lake City.
Living in Salt Lake City is wonderful :) I grew up in the Los [...]

Our Tuesday night SnB meets at the Jitterbug Coffee Hop here in Salt Lake. Bruce, the proprietor is endlessly patient with the group of loud and plentiful knitters that show up in his shop every week. He stays open late for us, and indulges our bringing our outside treats on birthdays and special [...]

I forgot to take a picture of my spindle, but here is the progress so far with the yarn. From left to right we have a merino silk blend (why I thought this would be a good thing to spin on my first REAL attempt, I will never know), the first attempt with the [...]

Pastry! The pictures are some of the jam tarts I made for our birthday edition of SnB this week.
I’ve loved pastry all my life. My mom makes a mean apple pie and I used to “help” by eating the skins of the granny smith apples as she peeled them. As I got [...]

Let’s cover the weekend first shall we?

I made a veritable ton of jam! And the 3 jars of peach salsa on the left. the nectarine jam on the right was made on Saturday morning, and the Blackberry & Plum jam (yes, it really is a mouth watering as it sounds) in the middle [...]

So I apologize ahead of time for not taking a picture of the whole chicken (we just dug right in) and I also apologize for posting this before lunch, since it will most likely make you hungry.

You will need:
A whole Chicken
Onions
Baby Carrots
Garlic
Butter (REAL butter, not Margarine)
Salt (I like to use Kosher salt)
Spices like black pepper, [...]

Yesterday I made more jam, but this is not just ANY jam. This is the jam that my sister craves and the entire family knows it as “Liquid Crack”. It’s something I came up with last year and it’s become something I think I will HAVE to make every year or Laura will [...]

I celebrated my Independence Day holiday by proving my independence from tradition! :) I did absolutely nothing that could be considered traditional for the 4th of July. No BBQ, no fireworks, no shopping. I started the day off by cleaning my kitchen, tidying my living room and folding laundry (all things [...]