Too much yarn

There's been a lot of activity since Christmas and I'm so awful at keeping up with my posts! So this will just be a picture show of what my needles/hooks have created since. xoxo

Black & Blue Granny Square Blanket

Kyrie's Granny Square Blanket

Elayna's Granny Square Blanket

A sweater for me!!

Booties for Flavia's identical twin girls

Gramps sweater for Gregory

Wolf sweater for Elayna

Bulky granny square with no home yet

God Jul!

This year we celebrated Christmas like the Swedes. Which is celebrated for practically 6 weeks with so many mini celebrations leading up to the main even, we choose to do just the main christmas day with Fika, which is coffee and pastries and then have a smorgasbord after. But I couldn't resist making advent calendars for the girls, since they don't live with me anymore I thought it was a great way to celebrate. The swedish really know how to party! Glögg is amazing btw.

wooden base from craft store

painted green

took 3 coats of paint but looked great

then the bedazzling

and the lights...really needed to add a light to the star too

Then we started our celebration with Fika and continued with our smorgasbord!

lussebulle: saffron buns

kardemummabullar: cardamon cinnamon buns

lots of pickled herring

klassisk rödbetssallad

deviled eggs and gravlox

of course Julmust!

Glögg!

Rekorderlig

prinsesstårta

soooo good!

God Jul!

We had such a fun time with our Swedish Christmas this year! We even added little rhymes to our gifts!

Learning to crochet

The past few months I've been learning to crochet. Thanks YouTube! So far all I've been making are granny squares. I'm not sure if I'm cut out for the long haul with crochet since I still prefer knitting but it's good to try new things.

Most Egg-cellent sweater

My oldest girlie had asked for a egg sweater a while back and I finally made it for her. 

This is the craziest inside of a sweater I've done so far....but the finished product was pretty sweet 💕

Knitter's disease

You know you're ill when in the middle of crocheting a blanket you think, "I should just bang out a sweater, it'd be faster ". Seriously WHAT?! Then you have a "talking" with your obviously ill self about knitting projects and such and how if you took a moment to actually read your project white board, you'd realize you are already knitting one!! Best get back to crocheting more squares and maybe lay off the spiked coffee  (⊙…⊙ )

Powerpuff girls

LOVE this💕 https://www.powerpuffyourself.com/#!/en

Elayna:

Kyrie:

Kari:

Veggie burgers version 2016

Although the first 24 years of my working career were spent in restaurants, mostly cooking, I'm the first to say I am not a chef. I did hold that position but I honestly think I am more of a dabbler/tinkerer in that area. First of all I consider all recipes as just basic guidelines and what you create as your end result should be tailored to your tastes and secondly I rarely make the same recipe the same way the second time around. As my beloved recipe book will attest to:

So I got a recipe for veggie burgers years ago off the internet, so long in fact that I couldn't find it again today and I of course hacked it:

Truth be told most of my recipes look like this. But I will post both of my versions here with my reviews and you can do your own hacking with them. I'd love to know how yours turn out!!

First version:

Veggie Burgers 2007

Ingredients 

2 oz Bulgur wheat

1 1/4 c finely chopped mushrooms 

1 1/2 c finely chopped carrots 

2 c finely chopped onions 

2 tbl minced garlic 

1/2 c finely chopped walnuts 

1/2 c sunflower seeds 

1/2 c wheat germ 

1/3 c chopped parsley 

3 tbl Tahini (sesame seed paste)

1 1/4 c cooked chickpeas 

3 tbl Tamari 

3 tbl lemon juice 

1/2 tsp salt 

1/2 tsp pepper

1/2 c pumpkin seeds 

2 c cooked brown rice

2 c cooked barley 

10 oz frozen spinach thawed 

10 oz frozen broccoli thawed

8 oz Monterey Jack cheese 

Instructions:

Put bulgar in a bowl of hot water, soak 10 minutes or until tender and drain.Heat some olive oil in pan and sauté mushrooms, carrots, onions and garlic for about 15 minutes. Turn on low and add parsley, chickpeas,bulgar, broccoli, spinach s&p, Tamari and lemon juice. After mixed and warm throughout remove from heat and mash together. Add tahini, rice and barley. In a separate bowl mix dry ingredients together and then add to veggies. After mixed throughly add cheese. Chill. Shape into patties and pan fry about 4 minutes on each side or put on parchment paper lined sheet pan and bake 8 minutes each side in a 350 degree oven. Or til lightly browned. These are good for freezing when cooled.

Veggie burger version 2016:

**You can follow the same instructions as I've only changed the ingredients **

Ingredients:

1/2 c milled flax seed 

2 c chopped portobello mushrooms 

2 c chopped carrots 

2 c chopped onions 

4 tbl minced garlic 

1 c almond meal

1 c sunflower seeds 

1 c pepitas 

2 tbl Janes crazy mixed up salt

1 c wheat germ 

2 c cooked brown rice 

2 c cooked barley 

1 c steel cut oats uncooked 

2/3 c chopped Italian parsley 

6 tbl tahini 

6 tbl Tamari 

2 c chickpeas cooked 

6 tbl lemon juice 

10 oz frozen spinach thawed

10 oz frozen broccoli thawed 

16 oz Monterey Jack/ cheddar cheese 

s&p 

(this recipe is doubled and will make about 24 patties)

My review is that version 2007 tasted great but didn't hold together well and was hard to cook. Version 2016 holds together great but needs some tweaking with the spices. Also I over cooked the last batch and it was a little dry. I love these warmed up and put on a salad, way better than chicken and so easy to take to work! 

***update: okay I've had these for lunch today and I think they're a little dry so if you make them I'd cut out the oats and I didn't like the pepitas. Hahahaha guess I'll have to try again!***  (╯︵╰,)

Christmas knitting picture show

Cowl for Kristina:

Blanket for Jeremy:

Blanket:

Bunny slippers for Dan:

Hooded sweater for Bailey:

Blanket for Steph:

Cabled cowl for Annie:

The Sally cardigan for Kyrie: