All things yellow ...

Another attempt down the mountain last weekend, starting off with a mint day that rapidly turned into a big ole whitey-white-out!

A bit more knitting of the donkey-mitre-square blanket this past week. I am definately a fan of the wrong side pattern and even think a mix of both could look good:

I have been attempting my first adult knitting project too - a cardi for me - having been unsuccessful at finding a pattern to fit my kidsilk mohair I opted for a shrug/cardi from a free Lion Brand pattern: knitted on 20mm needles with 3 strands 2tog. However it's proving to be a very HAIRY yarn and I'm going off the colour, so I've stopped short to make it a smaller shrug. More photos later as I'm still trying to figure out how to join the holey thing in a tidy manner.

It's still soup weather here and the other night I made soup of the three C's - Carrot, Cumin & Coriander. Seriously tasty recipe of my own (as if you can every really say that though cos I'm sure someone elses has made and published this somewhere in the big wide world) I promimse even though this photo is looking more like a traumatic baby-sitting experience I had:

Fry 1 diced medium onion and 2 cloves of garlic in a bit of olive oil. Add 1/2 cup of chopped celery, 1 bag of organic carrots (trimmed and chopped into small cubes), 4 white potatoes (chopped into cubes with skin on) and sweat for a couple of minutes. Add 1 1/2 cups each of hot water and chicken stock (you can use vege stock too). Add roughly a teaspoon of roasted, crushed coriander seeds, cumin powder and curry powder. Simmer until all veges are soft and squishy - then whizz about 1/2 the soup up and add back into the pot. Add 1/2 a cup of red lentils and simmer for another 20mins - keep an eye on it though as it can stick quickly. Add 1/2 cup of chopped fresh coriander 5 mins before serving. Serve with sour cream or unsweetened yoghurt and season with pepper if you want - it's a spicy thick soup & easily a whole meal.