The Sauce, It Burns Us
This weekend was very productive! I got in the mood to do some spring colors on Friday night. I overdyed some fluffy lime angora/wool into a variegated mix of spring greens and then divided a batch of lovely white lace weight silk/cashmere blend in half and did two skeins of salmon pink with burgundy flecks and two skeins of variegated fuschia-purple-teal. I can’t wait to get them all skeined up to see the colors mix! Yay spring!
On a less-successful note, I tried to make chili last night. The chili itself came out great, but I learned a valuable lesson…always add the beans BEFORE the giant can of tomato sauce! You see, I added a large can of sauce to the browned ground beef in my pot. This basically resulted in a pot of very liquid sauce. Anyone who has ever cooked spaghetti sauce on the stove knows that you have to keep it covered or the bursting bubbles will send little dollops of sauce flying everywhere.
Well, this was a large (tall) pot! I didn’t think the sauce would be able to jump the 12 inches to get out of the pot, much less make it 2 more feet up that wall. BOY, was I wrong. Apparently tomato sauce doesn’t like to be hot and crowded, because it was hell bent on getting out of that pot. It started exploding all over, and as I reached over to turn down the burner, POP! …And now I have blisters on my arm.
They certainly make knitting and crocheting interesting. Every time the yarn or fabric brushes against them I am reminded of why we always add the beans first.
Dyet Yarns blog posts by Adrian "Nuri" Steinhauer are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.
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