The art I'm bringing you today for Rain's Thursday Art and Dinner Date is my knitting, in particular this birds hat. I have been knitting several of this hat for a couple years now in different color combinations. They're for purchase in my Etsy store and usually sell out pretty quickly during the months before Christmas. This year I added a new color combination - grey with red birds. I'm planning to knit more hats in grey or charcoal and contrast the neutral color with more colorful birds in the near future.
Recently we had linguine with lemon sauce for dinner. It's another NYT recipe and super easy. I've enclosed the recipe below. I find it better to start heating the butter and adding the lemon zest more toward the end of the pasta's cooking time. However, I would add a few good grinds of fresh black pepper at the end and I also tend to be quite generous with the Parmigiano-Reggiano (I prefer this aged kind of Parmesan).
Last weekend we finally got some rain! It was such a relief. While we didn't get quite the soaking that was in the forecast, we still got a decent amount and my garden is very happy. Right before the weekend I harvested everything that was ripe enough. We had some lovely tomato dishes of which I forgot to take any pictures. Pasta, garlic, cream and basil were involved. Those big dark tomatoes are Pink Berkeley Tie Dye, an organic heirloom tomato with a truly big flavor. Otherwise there is Early Girl and the cherry tomoato is Riesentraube, an old German heirloom. Its name means "giant bunch of grapes" and indeed, it has big clusters of flavorful cherry tomatoes. It works well with Rain's prompt for this week, "Harvest Dinner". Bon appétit.
