and we took a break from eating marathon amounts of sarma (the subject of my very first post here) to enjoy a dinner of homemade calzones...
stuffed with spicy Italian sausage and a mixture of ricotta, mozzarella, and Parmesan cheeses. i even tossed in some fresh rosemary and oregano from my window herb box...
and served them up along with a very rustic marinara. by rustic, i mean... too lazy to chop the garlic, so i just smashed the cloves and left them whole. [the sauce is usually served on the side and NEVER inside the calzone. if there's sauce inside, then you're not eating a calzone.]
i've also discovered a recent fascination with pears. it's usually a bit of a his and hers situation around here with him reaching for the pears in the market while i gravitate toward the apples and grapes. but, i can't seem to get my fill of the delicious pears we've been getting lately...
which means that there's probably another upside-down pear cake in the near future (this one was from a few months ago, and it was yummm).
on the fiber end of the diet, i've been doing a lot of dyeing and even a touch of spinning in the last few weeks. i finally got around to to finishing up the merino top i started working on waaay back in October. this drop spindle was a gift from my Sweetie when i first started spinning for sanity back in grad school. it is still the only one i have that i did not make myself.
the wool was dyed during last spring/summer's dyeing frenzy, in a combination inspired by my calico kitty...
i added a healthy splash of goldish-yellow to the mix for bright cheerfulness.
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to preserve the color changes, i split the top lengthwise into 4 thinner sections and lightly pre-drafted each into a loose nest all ready for spinning...
into a single-ply, fingering weight yarn.
i left it on the niddy noddy for several days...
but there was still quite a bit of twist in the end.
it needs a soak to set the twist, but... that is some mighty sweet-looking yarn, if i do say so myself.
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