Busy Weekend!
We did a *ton* of entertaining this weekend. We had another couple over for dinner on Friday night. DH made wonderful cheese gnocchi from Moosewood (the older edition) with a tomato and pesto topping. He also made a winter leek soup. We tag teamed on one of our favorite bread machine breads, but baked it in the oven this time around. I also made skordalia (a potato and almond based hummus of sorts with *tons* of garlic) and dessert. Since I played a bit more active role in the Friday meal this week I only got about 5-10 minutes of spinning done on Friday.
Saturday was the usual relaxing around home sort of Saturday, but I did a bunch of reading. There was the latest William Kent Krueger to finish up, some re-reading of areas of The Joy of Coffee, as well as some quality time with the latest in the Scandinavian cooking library - The Great Scandinavian Baking Book. By sundown I had only spun another quarter of the second bobbin of superwash merino.
When the evening rolled around quicker than I would have guessed we had another guest over for an impromptu pasta dinner with left over skordalia and bread. Gene came over and made baklava. Each year he makes it as his holiday gift to friends, but this year’s crazy weather combined with a rather unpredictable work schedule had him a bit behind. We had spoken of wishing to learn how he makes it, as it is even better than the restaurants in town so he came over here to make this batch.
Then, Sunday was fika day again. It was lower key fika this week, but I’ll share what I served on Wednesday as usual. It all added up to not a lot of spinning, though I did get a fair bit accomplished during the week. Bobbin two of last week’s Emerald Forest Superwash Merino from Bonkers is complete now. If my knitting continues to go down the crapper this week perhaps I’ll be plying next Friday…
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As I mentioned above I had the latest William Kent Krieger novel to finish. I hadn’t wanted to be quite caught up with WKK’s writings, but his previous book really didn’t have an ending. Sure, we knew who dunnit at the end of the book, but Cork O’Conner’s life was anything but settled. It was one heck of a cliff hanger. So, I found myself having to put the next installment, Copper River, on hold at the library. The book was as I suspected. A real page turner, especially once you crossed that half-way mark. This time most of the action was centered around a small town in the UP of Michigan. I won’t fill you in on how Cork ended up there in case you haven’t read Mercy Falls yet.
If you like murder mysteries from the point of view of the law or if you’ve enjoyed previous William Kent Krueger books you’ll definitely enjoy Copper River. In fact, I think his books just keep getting better and better! This was my second book of 2007. That is much more like it!
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