Spinalcat's Crafty Adventures

Here's some of what I've been doing with the fruit from my friend's backyard and from a trip to Gizdich Ranch this summer! Cherries - BBQ sauce for         chicken wings        ribs (see blackberry ribs recipe below for method) paleo cherry crisp Blackberries - pork chops ribs pie  - This is my old favorite pie recipe. This time, I used the gluten free frozen crust from Whole Foods. You can substitute almond flour or whatever gluten-free flour you have for the topping. If not using rhubarb (works just fine with just berries), you can use about half the amount of sugar it calls for. Peaches- peach cobbler  - Also one of my old favorites. I used the all-purpose gluten free flour in the green box that     looks like this . I also subbed a buttermilk + water blend for the 1% milk. The batter got super fluffy from the acid in the buttermilk (I guess), but it turned out great!

I've got quite the backlog of projects to show here, and all of them are pink and/or purple! First up, Old Forge by Steven West from the book Westknits 3. Yet another bandwagon project ... I probably never would have given it a second thought if Teri hadn't made her shop sample in Madelinetosh yarns. The original (from Westknits Book 3 ) is super huge and rustic. There is a lace pattern that I omitted for several reasons- too rustic looking (although some people have changed it to stockinette instead of garter), not lined up correctly with the rest of the pattern (although there is a modified chart floating around that corrects this flaw). Instead, I kept going with the stripes, spacing them further and further apart. I really like the effect and it pretty much matches what I had going on in my head when I planned it. With everything all bunched up on the needle, I couldn't really tell if it was going to give the effect I was going for (sort of a pond ripples thing).