our friend christine is in town. i met her at penn at 5:30 this afternoon, amid rush hour and we made our way through the COLD (yes, it was actually cold today) to janet's pumpkin festooned house. it felt wonderfully autumnal.
janet made a delicious curried chicken stew with coconut milk, and a salad with pomegranate seeds. gael told a joke about two presidents and their daughter (well, maybe it was about a president and the president's spouse) . . and we watched misterepicmann's "how do animals eat" and john branyan's "the three little pigs . . . "
the pumpkins are from rhinebeck . . five dollars each! (hard to find that price around here unfortunately . . unless they fit in the palm of your hand).
marzipan! camille whipped up a batch in fifteen minutes. she put about two cups in a food processor, ground them up, added just a little bit of water (not too much otherwise it's too sticky), a bit less than equal amount of powdered sugar . . and then rolled them. oh. they were so good.
chanda tried on the sweater christine made for her niece. she had finished it on the train on the way down. she said she hated working on it . . but it's gorgeous, isn't it? she said the bobbles around the neck were difficult. i can imagine!
i love the sleeves and waist hem. it really came out nice. great work, christine!
Beautiful jumper! If my memory serves me right, Christine is from Denmark isn't she? Does she visit every year?
ReplyDeleteI've yet to buy a pumpkin, it's on my to do list this weekend, that and the ingredients for pumpkin pie for next week!
hello san, yes christine is from denmark and she just visited in march. she likes traveling and has a good friend in troy, new york. from there it's an easy train trip to good ol' manhattan :)
Deletei wish i could come to your house for pumpkin pie! i'm not sure if our oven will be fixed . . i might have to ask my neighbor if i can use her's. and i had better get a pumpkin soon . . i can't believe it's the end of october . .
The sweater looks complicated, I would have never tried something like that, not even if I had time.
ReplyDeleteI've been to Rhinebeck, lovely town, but our pumpkins are even cheaper! Maybe I should send you some :).
Enjoy your time with your Danish friend. I have been to Denmark so many times when I was a child. Ask her if she knows Ebeltoft. That was one of my favorite places.
me neither, eva! my sister has been asking me to make her a sweater for years . . but i have never started one for her. i think i need to make one for myself first!
Deletei'd love one of your pumpkins, but i'm afraid the shipping wouldn't be very economical! but i do appreciate the thought :)
i visited denmark once a long time ago. i thought it was very beautiful. i'll ask her about ebeltof :)
I once knitted a sweater for my brother when he was about 10 and I did knit a sweater for myself when I was 18, but that's as much as I have accomplished in the sweater department :). I have been knitting on this doll's dress for almost 10 years now, kind of embarrassing, but I never find the time and the stitches keep falling of the needles. I spend many hours just finding the stitches again and by the time I have found them I don't feel like knitting anymore. Maybe when I retire? Then it could become a dress for a grandchild's doll.
DeleteI know, I don't think the pumpkin would get there in one piece anyway. This year, we can't harvest our own because we didn't put in a garden. Now we will have to hunt for one in the next village.