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st time i wrote about how the garden had gone nuclear and i had more garlic scapes than i knew what to do with on friday morning i harvested a bunch and put them in the fridge before i went to work thinking inspiration would hit and i d figure something out during the day i hate not using things comes from the garden later that morning while scrolling through my instagram feed you can find me under dearknits i came upon a picture of a pasta dish with red onions garlic scapes pistachios cream and parmesan and inspiration hit i used my scapes in a pasta dish but added sauteed mushrooms and substituted pine nuts instead of pistachios i also cut out the cream and added some cherry tomatoes for colour and holy jeez was it good so so good even the kids loved it and phil who isn t overly fond of pasta dishes that are too noodle ey liked it too i made it again tonight just so i could snarf it down photograph it and share the recipe you re welcome pasta with sauteed mushrooms garlic scapes and red onions ingredients 4 tbsp olive oil 2 tbsp butter 1 8oz 227 g package of mushrooms i used a blend of oyster shitake and enoki mushroms chopped 1 4 cup of red onions sliced 1 3 cup garlic scapes cut into 1 inch pieces about 5 scapes 1 tbsp freshly grated ginger 1 sprig fresh thyme 1 cup freshly grated parmesan 1 cup cherry tomatoes halved 250 g pasta i used a mix of fusilli and penne rigate 5 6 slices smoked salmon optional instructions heat 1 tbsp olive oil over med high heat melt 2 tbsp butter and add mushrooms sautee for 3 4 minutes until mushrooms have softened and have begun to brown add red onions and sautee until softened reduce heat to medium add garlic scapes ginger and thyme and continue to sautee 5 10 minutes meanwhile cook pasta in salted water until al dente about 7 minutes drain and return the pasta to the pot add remaining olive oil to pasta and stir to coat evenly add the mushroom red onion scapes mixture to the pasta and mix well add the grated parmesan and halved cherry tomatoes and stir if vegetarian dishes aren t your thing or if you want to add a bit more protein to this dish throw in a few slices of smoked salmon before serving personally i found this dish to be absolutely delicious and i hope you will too if you give it a try do let me know what you thought of it happy cooking everyone posted by tara at 9 10 pm 6 comments labels food gardening wednesday july 3 2013 the bright side i don t know what the weather has been like in your part of the world friends but up here it has been wet sure we ve had the occasional warm spring day or now technically summer day but on the whole it s been rainy and grey and sometimes downright cold now in case you didn t know winter is a big deal in canada after enduring six months of ice snow sleet and mind numbing soul sucking cold we re all a bit shell shocked you know we need our oh so brief but glorious spring and summer to bring us back to life to forget the horrors of winter and remind us why anyone would ever choose to live in this god awful climate in the first place but this year spring just didn t sprung and thus far summer s interest in making an appearance seems to be casual at best i m not going to lie it s been taking a toll on our moral the first drop of rain the slightest dip in the thermostat has us sighing in heavy exasperation and muttering to ourselves about the gosh dang weather i ve been trying to make the best of it knitwear is still appropriate yay everything is green and lush super but this week i finally had to admit that the game was up and that the whole it s good for the plants spiel just wasn t going to cut it anymore the thing is though all this rain we ve been having it really is good for the plants the garden has exploded my friends seriously it s like a girls gone wild video out there only for plants the tomatoes i planted that i grew from seed have gone berserk the carrots are doing splendidly i ve got more garlic scapes than i know what to do with and the basil while tender is fragrant and wonderful the only thing that hasn t been going crazy are the cucumbers i suspect they aren t getting enough sun hah get in line dudes i also had zero luck with my watermelon despite sowing the seeds twice so i ve changed plans for that raised bed and have planted spaghetti squash instead they look teeny now but i know the ways of squash they ll be joining the veggie party taking up all the room and making googly eyes at the green beans in no time so yeah there s that and for those doldrums that the garden can t cure well there s always cross stitching happy knitting everyone posted by tara at 8 54 pm 4 comments labels cross stitch gardening wednesday june 26 2013 citron without further ado because i know the suspense has been killing you it is with great pleasure that i give you citron aka the big red blob of doom yes friends i finished it there were approximately eleventy bajillion zillion stitches on the needles at the end and for a while i thought i had stumbled into some sort of blip in the time space continuum but binding off that final stitch was like attaining knitting nirvana i experienced a singular blissful moment of clarity swiftly followed by an overwhelming wave of hostility and disgust i couldn t get that f ing shawl away from me fast enough it took me a full week before i could even look at it again and another week to be able to sit down and weave in 6 little ends and now it is finally and truly done i can t even begin to contemplate casting on for another shawl at this point resolution be damned since finishing my citron i have gone absolutely wild and cast on not one but two socks i know get down with your bad self and have been enjoying knitting on one or the other as strikes my fancy the pair on the left which is not in fact as crazy neon orange as it appears in this photo is the latest cookie a sock club sock knit with sweet georgia cashluxe fine the pattern inspired by spock is fun and challenging and the yarn is absolutely divine the pair on the right is my soccer swimming autopilot knitting of the moment a pair of plain vanilla socks knit out of nightfall sock yarn i m sure i ll be serving myself up another slice of crazy pie within no time but until then i ll be happily knitting away on these babies happy knitting everyone posted by tara at 4 32 pm 2 comments labels finished objects on the needles monday june 10 2013 slog there are a few reasons why i haven t written a blog post in a good long while first and i know this is going to come as a complete shock to those of you who still frequent this space cough dad cough i m not exactly the bestest blogger in the whole wide world second well i ve been kept busy by other projects like the garden i guess one could say i ve dabbled in vegetable gardening since the kids were born but this is my third year of serious gardening the garlic is up carrots are sprouting away and the tomatoes that i started from seed seem to be managing fairly well despite the cool spring we ve been having up here i even spotted a few baby tomatoes out there this morning as i mentioned last time i ve also gotten pretty obsessed with cross stitching over the past few weeks cross stitch is a bit of a vixen though it beguiles you with it s seemingly manageable size and all round cuteness so that you don t immediately realize what a massive time suck it can be stitching all those little x s takes time my friends but if you really want to know what s been keeping me from posting to this knitting blog i ll tell you it s that i am absolutely bored to tears by the project i ve been working on since oh forever friends i give you the coma inducing red blob of despair also known as a citron grand which i m knitting out of 1300 yards of laceweight it s going to make a great christmas gift and goodness knows i knew what i was getting myself into when i pulled those 3 balls of classic elite silky alpaca lace out of the stash but man i ve been relying heavily on my runner training trying to suck it up and keep slogging along telling myself that each row is one row closer to the finish line and you know what not unlike round about the 15th kilometer in a half marathon my pep talks are starting to feel like total and complete bullsh t i m never going to be done this mind numbing soul crushing torture is just going to go on and on and on forever happy pointless knitting that won t make the slightest dent in your wip everyone sigh posted by tara at 8 57 pm 9 comments labels gardening on the needles ramblings tuesday april 30 2013 gulp i made some fairly ambitious knitting resolutions this year i wanted to knit 12 shawls 15 pairs of socks and try to use up 15000 yards primarily from the stash if possible ambitious but totally doable right by the end of march i had knit 3 pairs of socks 3 shawls and about 3000 yards all from stash not too shabby eh i had this knitting goals thing in the bag people and then this happened yup i totally drank the cross stitch kool aid i have become a cross stitching fool i signed up for the frosted pumpkin stitchery s springtime sampler and the 2013 woodland sampler aaaaaaand i might maybe have bought another of their patterns too so yeah i didn t just drink the kool aid i gulped it down and wiped my chin off on the sleeve of my merino and silk cardigan knitting goals pshaw i ve got plenty of time right happy stitching everyone posted by tara at 9 01 pm 5 comments labels cross stitch thursday april 4 2013 pushed over the edge i m trying to knit from stash as much as possible this year i wouldn t call it cold sheeping exactly maybe tepid sheeping anyway as anyone who has developed a um healthy interest in knitting can attest refraining from buying yarn can be challenging the colours the fibers the sales it can be hard to resist enter the yarn club pay your money up front at the beginning of the year then receive shiny new yarn at regular intervals throughout the year i m not saying it cures a knitter of her itch to buy yarn but knowing you ve got a shipment coming in a few weeks definitely takes the edge off which can be pretty handy in a pinch way back in february you know round about the last time i wrote a blog post ahem i received the first shipment of the cookie a sock club it was a lovely skein of indigodragonfly mcn sock in the colourway e pluribus nom nom nom lovely isn t it what a pretty thing and as soft and squooshy as frolicking kittens on a spring morning just perfect only well there was a snag turns out i had remarkably similar yarn in the stash already a few skeins of it and here s the kicker i was embarrassed that i had so much yarn in this colour in my stash really i ve been squirreling yarn away for years it s invaded practically every nook and cranny in my home but this skein was pushing me out of my comfort zone there was only one thing to do of course i had to get that yarn out of the stash asap denial balance had to be restored at all costs the club yarn has been knit up into one of the 2 patterns for that shipment the ernie socks and they re now safely tucked away into the gift box the green hazel knits top right is being knit up into a lovely shawl by corrina ferguson evadine and the springtree road yarn bottom left will most likely be cast on with next me too much yarn pshaw happy knitting everyone posted by tara at 8 47 pm 7 comments labels finished objects ramblings yarn pron tuesday february 12 2013 but is it too perfect well it finally happened i hopped on ye olde bandwagon and cast on for a color affection shawl of my very own truth be told i bought my ticket for that fun train months ago when my friend marie michele and i spent about an hour debating colour combinations of grinning gargoyle seda sock at rhinebeck but i only jumped on 10 days ago anyway it s charming utterly charming cushy and comforting like oatmeal on a cold winter morning the soothing garter stitch is predictable familiar yet kept from being monotonous by the novelty of the colour changes and it s flying off the needles a friend remarked that it s a good thing i m knitting with aluminum needles because i d be fixin to set my knitting on fire i m rubbing these here pointy sticks together so fast all in all i d say it s perfect perfect knitting then last night as i rolled my knitting into a ball and left it on the couch lovingly tucked my knitting away for the evening i wondered at how swimmingly everything was going and that s when it happened a shadow of doubt a wrinkle a question maybe this was going too well maybe it was too perfect maybe i d done something wrong the instructions had seemed fairly straightforward but what if i had made a mistake the third section of the shawl has you knitting 3 stitches past a previously wrapped stitch had i been picking up too many stitches all along had i been over thinking the directions and taken the instructions too literally had i inadvertently turned my perfect winter comfort knitting into a pile of absolute drivel that i would need to rip back in quiet shame all night it bothered me i barely slept a wink this morning once i was caffeinated and the kids were safely off to school i knew what i had to do math good news it s going to be fine my bad happy knitting everyone posted by tara at 8 43 pm 3 comments labels chronicles of a knitting dumbass ramblings older posts home subscribe to posts atom about me tara montreal quebec canada i m a mother of two emilie 9 and maxime 6 who has become somewhat obsessed with knitting view my complete profile my grandmother teaching me to knit at age 5 www flick r com this is a flickr badge showing items in a set called on and off the needles make your own badge here running total 2015 2013 finished objects citron grand shawl ernie socks ziyal cowl wood hollow mittens ribbed socks cranberry ski bonnet wendell holmes shawl autumn hat finished objects 2012 finished objects 2011 finished objects 2010 finished objects 2009 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