my lunch is too long for twitter.

Awesome salad lunch:

-farmers' market special crazy mixed greens assortment (with flowers!)
-farmers' market mixed mushroom assortment (so, I'm blithely assuming they're not going to put anything that's toxic when raw or anything in an unlabeled mix...)
-the end of a red pepper I used most of for hummus (more on that later)
-a tea egg, chopped up (these came out much more tea-ish when cooked overnight in the crock pot, but still don't live up to the ideal concept of tea egg that the recipe conjures in my head. Possibly I just don't like eggs enough?)
-peppercorn ranch dressing

Sadly, I keep forgetting to buy more olives.

On a related note, I have an awesome mushroom assortment, and am looking at three days of feeding myself dinner without having to worry about what grauwulf considers to be food. Anybody have suggestions on tasty things to do with fungus?



(also of note: thanks are due to amubleu, without whom I might still not have discovered the Jones Falls Farmers' Market.)

my lunch is too long for twitter.

Awesome salad lunch:

-farmers' market special crazy mixed greens assortment (with flowers!)
-farmers' market mixed mushroom assortment (so, I'm blithely assuming they're not going to put anything that's toxic when raw or anything in an unlabeled mix...)
-the end of a red pepper I used most of for hummus (more on that later)
-a tea egg, chopped up (these came out much more tea-ish when cooked overnight in the crock pot, but still don't live up to the ideal concept of tea egg that the recipe conjures in my head. Possibly I just don't like eggs enough?)
-peppercorn ranch dressing

Sadly, I keep forgetting to buy more olives.

On a related note, I have an awesome mushroom assortment, and am looking at three days of feeding myself dinner without having to worry about what grauwulf considers to be food. Anybody have suggestions on tasty things to do with fungus?



(also of note: thanks are due to amubleu, without whom I might still not have discovered the Jones Falls Farmers' Market.)

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Boston!

A couple of the dolls have come back down from the top of the bookshelf. Tisquantum fell on his head, actually, but fortunately I'd moved the cycad out of the way so he landed on the weird shelf made up of slats of soft wood & only dinged his MSC slightly. Now he's sitting on the back of the couch looking angsty, and waiting for me to make him a 14th century jupon to check that I've worked out the seams before I cut fabric for grauwulf. (since, er, I don't actually have the pattern or anything.)

This little guy has been sitting on top of my VP homework:



Some of you might have figured out by now that I have a bad habit of bonding with blank dolls, and then never finishing customizing them. This is Boston (as in the Boston fern, a cultivar of Nephrolepis exaltata.) He has a top for his head, a classy helmet, and another head with a cap for it (although that one is pink) all of which are in their ziplock baggie in the doll trunk. I got him on a whim-- because I could, as he and his two brethren (one pink, and one ragamuffined; I considered the patchwork doll, but against green & swirly it was no contest) sold out in a couple hours-- and then fell madly in love at package opening. He is gorgeous (and green and swirly!) and batchix did a fantastic job with his jointing & posing as well as the aesthetics. So I trimmed his sprues & mold lines very carefully to finger smooth, to save as much of the swirly unmolded color as possible, and thus he has stayed. There are theoretical Plans, but thus far I have been thwarted by an insufficiency of appropriately scaled fake fern leaves, and possibly the lack of a mini Victorian glasshouse. (Puck needs a cage, Boston needs a fernery. I need more room & less stuff, but we're working on that...)

Boston!

A couple of the dolls have come back down from the top of the bookshelf. Tisquantum fell on his head, actually, but fortunately I'd moved the cycad out of the way so he landed on the weird shelf made up of slats of soft wood & only dinged his MSC slightly. Now he's sitting on the back of the couch looking angsty, and waiting for me to make him a 14th century jupon to check that I've worked out the seams before I cut fabric for grauwulf. (since, er, I don't actually have the pattern or anything.)

This little guy has been sitting on top of my VP homework:



Some of you might have figured out by now that I have a bad habit of bonding with blank dolls, and then never finishing customizing them. This is Boston (as in the Boston fern, a cultivar of Nephrolepis exaltata.) He has a top for his head, a classy helmet, and another head with a cap for it (although that one is pink) all of which are in their ziplock baggie in the doll trunk. I got him on a whim-- because I could, as he and his two brethren (one pink, and one ragamuffined; I considered the patchwork doll, but against green & swirly it was no contest) sold out in a couple hours-- and then fell madly in love at package opening. He is gorgeous (and green and swirly!) and batchix did a fantastic job with his jointing & posing as well as the aesthetics. So I trimmed his sprues & mold lines very carefully to finger smooth, to save as much of the swirly unmolded color as possible, and thus he has stayed. There are theoretical Plans, but thus far I have been thwarted by an insufficiency of appropriately scaled fake fern leaves, and possibly the lack of a mini Victorian glasshouse. (Puck needs a cage, Boston needs a fernery. I need more room & less stuff, but we're working on that...)

Experimentally cross-posty from dreamwidth. Comments encouraged in either location.