Wednesday, March 28, 2012

A pimped vase and lemon curd

Easter is not far off, and even though I love Easter decorations we really don't have much of them. So I decided to make something myself. Something colorful.One of Lucy's projects came to mind, and I decided to pimp a vase of daffodils I have in the kitchen. Oh daffodils, you are beautiful but you smell horrible. Here's the pattern at Attic24. Very happy with how it turned out.



I haven't been doing much reading lately, but I have been perusing a cookbook I got for Christmas from my sister-in-law. Its a swedish book, "Söta saker", which means "Sweet things". Only cakes, cookies, jams and marmelades in this one. There are so many good looking sweet things in this book that I've mostly been drooling over the contents instead of actually making them (so I can drool whilst I chew). A pair of sad looking lemons changed that though. I couldn't let them go to waste, so I used them to make lemon curd. Why haven't I made this before? Absolute riot for the tastebuds. First you get a "Oh my god that's sweet"-shock followed by a "Wow that's sour"-shock. Yum.



While I'm sharing pics of my kitchen adventures, I can tell you that I have had a premiere pea shoot sallad here at home. I threw together a few differnent kinds of lettuces, fresh spinach, tomatoes, feta cheese and a handful of pea shoots. Topped it all off with a olive oil and lemon dressing. It was good! I could taste a slight pea-flavor every now and then and knew I was chewing on something I had grown myself. Going to plant some more peas, definitely want more shoots to add that extra little zing to my sallads!





Joining Ginny for Yarn Along.




8 comments:

  1. Mmmm all that food looks yummy Sylvia, and love the crochet vase!

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  2. that salad looks so yummy! Isn't it great to eat something from our own harvest!! And the vase is cute!!

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  3. Mmmm, lemon curd. So good! And the pimped vase is cute!
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  4. The vase looks great...that lucy at attic 24 is certainly an inspiring crocheter!!!

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  5. Pretty vase to display those Sunshiney daffodils.
    Mmmmm Lemon curd delicious.
    Enjoy

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  6. hello Sylvia ;)
    what a coincidence! i just got a lemon curd recipe yesterday and i want to give it a try on the weekend, i'm in love with store-bought lemon curd so i wanted to give the homemade version a try too. can only be better! happy friday!

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  7. lemon curd...you're a genius! and i think it might be good on the pea salad....i've always been intimidated by curd, but no more, and i do have lots of lemons! have a lovely weekend!

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  8. delicious salad, and lemon curd looks yummy. cute covered vase, it looks nice on your desk.

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