October 13, 2021

šŸ¤¦ā€ā™€ļø This is a lesson on measuring more than twice, cutting once. After cutting all the pieces for the 18th c. corset I’m making, hand sewing the boning channels (over 70 of them), attempting a couple hand done eyelets, cutting & sanding the bones and starting to piece the panels together, I noticed something … 2 of my panels were definitely backwards. So, not thinking, I ripped, flipped & re-sewed those 4 panels (2 of each). Cool. … And then I went to re-fit, discovering that I now needed to re-re-do two of the flipped panels + flip one of each of the other two. I’d made exact copies of my corset halves – not mirror images. Whelp, they say you only make such a mistake once …

October 12, 2021

October 11, 2021

šŸ˜ bougainvillea

October 10, 2021

Water feature at lunch

October 9, 2021

Makes up for yesterday’s lazy knee pic, no?

Pomegranate Beef Meatballs

Another Middle Eastern-inspired meatball recipe, this time with beef. Do you see a trend here? I’ve got a lamb version coming soon (hopefully – if my idea works out).

gluten-free, paleo

Pomegranate Beef Meatballs

1 lb. ground beef

1/3 c. slivered almonds

3 Tbsp. pomegranate molasses

3 Tbsp. nutritional yeast

2 Tbsp. pomegranate arils

3 Tbsp. cilantro, chopped

1/2 small onion, minced

3 cloves garlic, minced

1 Tbsp. turmeric

2 Tbsp. fish sauce or Worcestershire (check labels if paleo or gf)

Salt & pepper

Preheat your oven to 200C/375F and prepare a baking sheet.

Combine all ingredients with your hands, mixing well.

Form into meatballs – mine were roughly golf ball shaped.

Bake about 15 minutes.

Great alongside last week’s recipe for Pomegranate & Fig Salad.

Makes enough to serve 4

October 8, 2021

I could have *sworn* I took a real picture today – that’s what i get for holding out when photo ops passed me by during the day šŸ¤·ā€ā™€ļø My knee. On my way to bed šŸ˜†

October 7, 2021

October 6, 2021

Enjoying every minute of the not-made-by-me heap of spinach & mushrooms slathered on nutty brown bread I get pretty much daily for breakfast while staying here. It’s not as potentially exciting to most people as the pastry bar, breakfast pizza or egg setup, but I’m excited about it.

October 5, 2021

The walk to breakfast is much more pleasant in early October than July.