Today's Adventures
Jun. 21st, 2025 06:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ysabetwordsmithToday we went up to Amish territory.
We started at the Otto Center for the 3rd Saturday Market and Bazaar. Regrettably, it's not air conditioned. We abandoned our plans to test out the little eatery set up in the corner there, and we'll likely have to skip the July and August markets unless it's unseasonably cool. Instead of leisurely browsing the show, we made a hasty skim and zoomed in on a couple of our favorite merchants.
Denim & Dye had all sorts of tie-dye things out. I found a lovely blue-and-purple long-sleeved T-shirt. Alas, she was out of socks. She was working on something as I browsed, and binding it with waxed sinew. It's been a long time since I made tie-dye, and we always used rubber bands, but I confess that I keep an eye out for new techniques and I do love her results. :D
The Ultimate Harvest, our favorite freeze-dryer, had onion chunks this time. We bought a bag of those and a bag of strawberries.
Sparkles & Sawdust Sisters had a bunch of antique and refurbished furniture, much of it with small designs painted on, but there was one spectacular dresser with a peacock all down the front. :D We didn't buy anything there, but we sure admired the artistry. It's the kind of place I'd eagerly buy from when the right piece appeared.
After hustling out of the Otto Center, we went to Shady Crest Market for lunch. We split a chicken pesto sandwich, and then blackberry ice cream for dessert.
We swung by to pick up the mail on the way home.
We also finished reading Keto Slow Cooker & One-Pot Meals. We weren't impressed by it. I think we only marked 4 pages and one of those was just for a spice blend not the whole meal. 0_o It's not like making low-carb things is hard. It's that people keep trying to replicate standard recipes with nonstandard ingredients, including synthetic sweeteners I won't touch. For fucksake, low carb can be meat, other animal products like eggs, oils and fats, vegetables that are on the low side of sugars and starches, with sweet things made mostly from fruits or the occasional natural sweetener like honey or maple syrup. You don't need to fill it with garbage to make it taste good.
It has been a good day, despite the heat.
We started at the Otto Center for the 3rd Saturday Market and Bazaar. Regrettably, it's not air conditioned. We abandoned our plans to test out the little eatery set up in the corner there, and we'll likely have to skip the July and August markets unless it's unseasonably cool. Instead of leisurely browsing the show, we made a hasty skim and zoomed in on a couple of our favorite merchants.
Denim & Dye had all sorts of tie-dye things out. I found a lovely blue-and-purple long-sleeved T-shirt. Alas, she was out of socks. She was working on something as I browsed, and binding it with waxed sinew. It's been a long time since I made tie-dye, and we always used rubber bands, but I confess that I keep an eye out for new techniques and I do love her results. :D
The Ultimate Harvest, our favorite freeze-dryer, had onion chunks this time. We bought a bag of those and a bag of strawberries.
Sparkles & Sawdust Sisters had a bunch of antique and refurbished furniture, much of it with small designs painted on, but there was one spectacular dresser with a peacock all down the front. :D We didn't buy anything there, but we sure admired the artistry. It's the kind of place I'd eagerly buy from when the right piece appeared.
After hustling out of the Otto Center, we went to Shady Crest Market for lunch. We split a chicken pesto sandwich, and then blackberry ice cream for dessert.
We swung by to pick up the mail on the way home.
We also finished reading Keto Slow Cooker & One-Pot Meals. We weren't impressed by it. I think we only marked 4 pages and one of those was just for a spice blend not the whole meal. 0_o It's not like making low-carb things is hard. It's that people keep trying to replicate standard recipes with nonstandard ingredients, including synthetic sweeteners I won't touch. For fucksake, low carb can be meat, other animal products like eggs, oils and fats, vegetables that are on the low side of sugars and starches, with sweet things made mostly from fruits or the occasional natural sweetener like honey or maple syrup. You don't need to fill it with garbage to make it taste good.
It has been a good day, despite the heat.
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Date: 2025-06-22 01:08 am (UTC)Well ...
Date: 2025-06-22 01:14 am (UTC)I would rather find a recipe that doesn't use them, or failing that, devise my own. The results are better. Otherwise you're playing copy-of-a-copy and that rarely ends well. :/
Re: Well ...
Date: 2025-06-22 10:46 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2025-06-22 03:32 am (UTC)Thoughts
Date: 2025-06-22 04:01 am (UTC)Shady Crest always has excellent ice cream, but no telling what flavors they'll have any given day. They do a glorious peach sometimes.