Playing Suzy Homemaker

Catching up on laundry before the week starts while making a Sunday dinner of roast and mashed vegetables. Though I think I'll keep putting off hemming pants until Tuesday. And I'll blame my headache for the lack of vacuuming.

Asain Influenced Sunday Dinner

1/4 c Choya Plum Wine
6 Choya Wined Plums
1/4 c soy sauce
2 lb chuck roast
1 onion
2 tsp corn starch

Brown and season roast, put in crock with plum wine and soy sauce overnight. Add onion, place in crockpot on high. Flip after 2 hours. Should be falling apart done at about 5 hours. Pull out meat. Pour juices into small pot, add corn starch and make into gravy.

4 6" by 1" daikons
2 large, 4 midsized and 6 small turnips
(3.5 lb total of daikon and turnip)
2 tsp salt
2 tbsp sugar

peel and slice into 1" cube/slices, add salt and sugar, cover with water and bring to a boil. Boil for about 20 minutes, drain.

1/2 c milk
4 tbsp butter

Melt butter, mix in milk. Add to turnip/daikons, and mash. Serve with meat and gravy.

Year In Review

It is hard for me to review the year in total with the last month + being so full. I feel like I was on hold for the rest of the year. I did quite a bit of crafting, and learned some. Related to that, I found two more groups of people to socialize and craft with (SCA and KVFG). I read a lot. I went to a few conventions, including WisCon (Graydown is a great con buddy) and DragonCon (with a great group of conbuddies). Saw my little brother

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Modern Day Woman

After a month ignoring it, I pulled out my spinning wheel. Sadly, it was not working right. A spot of oil helped, but the maidens were still loose and thus the drive band kept slipping off. My bike tools are the only ones that I know exactly where they are, so I pulled out my multitool and tightened stuff. I spun for about half an episode of Burn Notice until my out of shape drafting hand started to hurt. So back to knitting.