Beet Salad

This time of year I try old ingredients in new combinations.  This week I received some blue cheese and remembered this recipe for beet salad. Boil beets until you can slip the skins.  Chop. Set aside. Toast walnuts or pecans and chop. Set aside. In a serving bowl make the dressing: olive oil, mild rice or white wine vinegar, a bit of honey, dijon mustard, salt and pepper.  Add the beets, chopped nuts, some crumbled …

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Buddhas for Judith

Before I met Ken I had a small house in St Paul.  I had many flowers and wanted a buddha statue.  I saved my pennies and when I returned to the garden center the buddha was gone.  Each time there or any garden center I looked for a buddha.  No buddhas.   I had told Ken this story and he listened each time and nodded.  Once when we were doing a pottery show in the …

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Onion Skins

I weave rag rugs.  At one point I saved dry onion skins to dye some dull rags.  I set them in brown paper bags in the old kiln shed. Ken created glazes from ashes – he used wood ash form apple trees, maple ash, and he also used crop sources like the husks from dry beans or corn stalks.       When Ken went to clean the old kiln shed he found the bags …

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