That’s Life

It’s all cooking, all the time over here at Carole Knits. This week we’ve made Ginger Cookies, Peanut Butter Balls, Fudge, Cranberry Pistachio Bark, Spritz, and Polish Teacakes aka Thumbprint Cookies. Here we have the Ginger Cookies. Yummm. And here we have Dale and Hannah rolling 6 pounds worth of Swedish Meatballs. Even more yummmmm…

Those are my favorite cookies in the whole world. They’re called Polish Tea Cakes (although my friend, Chrissie, who’s more Polish than anyone I know, says no one in her family has ever made them) and they are simply the best. My mother got the recipe from a dear friend about 30 years ago and…

Yesterday our Civil War group, the 18th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, attended a local farm Christmas celebration. We set up a few tents and fly, had a fire, coffee and snacks and just all around enjoyed a fun day of Christmas, Civil War Style. I promised pictures of myself in the paletot, so here ya go…

Ripped off shamelessly from Cate, I present a Random Wednesday post. Took this picture of the sky last Saturday night. I saw the colors and I had to do it for Sandy’s sake. While some people are busy making baked goods for their family for the holiday, others are making booze. Yup, this is the…

Dear Dale Santa, I’ve been a very good wife mother knitter spinner blogger grrl this year. Here is my Christmas list. These items are in no particular order. If you just get them all, I’ll be quite happy. ALL of these books, please. Knitting, spinning, dyeing, I want need them all. One of these. With…

Okay, I’m a lemming, too. I’ve jumped on the Frappr Map bandwagon and I’m asking all who enter here to put yourself on the Carole Knits map. I’m also taking this opportunity to thank all you wonderful readers who have already put yourselves on my map! You guys ROCK! I know, you’re all sick of…

Aaahhhhh. Thanksgiving pies. We have mince, pumpkin, cranberry-walnut and apple. There’s nothing quite like the old-fashioned goodness of a home made pie. For those of you that asked, here is my pie crust recipe. It comes from The Joy of Cooking: All About Pies & Tarts and it’s never let me down. Using a rubber…

You know how there’s all those pre-game football shows? The ones where they tell you who’s going to play and who’s going to win? Well, last night we had the pre-Thanksgiving show. See, we’re sort of mostly going in different directions on Thanksgiving, so we got together last night at my brother-in-law’s house for Chinese…

Yesterday was the grand opening of the new IKEA store in my area. Of course, as you may recall, Wednesdays are for quilting. However, the Hungry Quilters decided that an opportunity to visit the true “happiest place on earth” on it’s opening day could not be missed. So, we all piled into the Suburban and…

Saturday night? We went here: Can you read the name? Here’s his picture. Now can you recognize him? Yeah, I know. The pictures are crap. I didn’t dare bring the regular camera with me so all I had was the Palm. But at least you know I thought of the blog and attempted to get…

In no particular order, the things I learned this weekend at the wedding in Portland, Maine. My daughter suddenly dances like a grown up. And looks like a grown up. Thank goodness she still acts like a kid! But here she is, dancing with the groom, and just looking, well, grown up. Portland is not…

Dale grew up with a grape arbor in his backyard. He has loads of stories about the grape harvest every year – including the accomplishment of stuffing 100 grapes in his mouth. He fondly remembers grape fights and tossing grapes into the air to catch them in his mouth. He chuckles when he tells the…