Less sewing, more cooking, I love this time of year!

Jim will hopefully only work a half day today, since he has to leave for New Orleans again on Sunday, and won’t be back until Thanksgiving day, so I don’t have any sewing planned for the day.

I just put a couple of loaves of whole wheat bread in the oven, and I’m getting ready to make the batter for more fruitcakes, having had my fruit marinating in brandy for a few days now.  I just can’t get enough of these!  I’m going to make them in miniature loaf pans this time… do you think this batch might make it until Christmas?

Last night, I made my Cajun Salmon in Cream Sauce, and with the leftover sauce and salmon, I’m going to make pasta tonight for dinner, with asparagus and tomatoes.  I’m also going to try a different Clafouti recipe.  I adore Clafouti, and have always used Julia Child’s recipe, but I found a different recipe over on the King Arthur Flour website this morning.  I believe I am going to make mine with pears for dessert tonight.

I do need Jim’s help today squaring up the backing fabric for the log cabin quilt.  It’s huge and I need four hands!  I want to get it on the frame this weekend and finished, as I plan to hand bind it and that will take me some time. 

The new bumper for the Magster is on order, they will paint it when it comes in, and if there’s no other damage when the remove the bumper, I’ll have the car back in a day.  We were lucky and the guy that hit us and took off did have valid insurance.  Makes you wonder why he’d flee the scene doesn’t it?  Clueless!

I’m still playing phone tag with the Sheriff back home in Missouri over our stolen trailer.  I don’t expect any results from that, but I do want a written report so I can claim the loss on our taxes!

I hope everyone is getting lots of sewing done!