The next time you get together with your maker friends, I am going to respectfully suggest that you begin the day like this.
You can come to Alchemy Coffee and Bakeshop on Mass street in Lawrence, or get a slab of dense pumpkin pie with a thick graham cracker crust topped with freshly whipped cream, served alongside a flat white at your favorite neighborhood coffee and bakeshop. After all, it is November.
Maker Mary Joan brought her table runner, started at our last meeting, now completed except for the quilting she decided to add. In a gesture of generosity and kindness she gifted it to me and I will show the whole thing when I have finished the hand quilting. It's lovely. Somehow I missed getting pictures of Ann's table runner - which she added a cool edging to, and Pam's - which she embellished with stitching. Photos will be taken at the January meeting.
We usually start the day at a coffee shop so we can get important jabbering time in before we get to any projects that might require intense concentration. We also needed to check out the latest trunk show at the Yarn Barn downtown. Three of us may have purchased patterns for new sweaters. More on that later.
"Winter Squash" soup was served for lunch. I changed the name because in addition to using one small butternut squash, I used 2 small buttercup squashes. Is the plural of squash squashes or squash? It looks funny.
I have provided this recipe before. It is a keeper and works as well with the buttercup/butternut combo as it does with butternut alone. Click on the picture to make it large enough to read. Also, do NOT leave out the cayenne pepper, it really makes the soup. I use between an eighth and a fourth of a teaspoon. More on the fourth side. What is 3/4 of 1/4 teaspoon anyway? I was never good at math.
Saw this today and was planning to make my soup tomorrow. Perfect timing. Thanks!
Posted by: vicki | 11/19/2018 at 01:18 PM