Will totally make that again!

Warning- Picture heavy post here. Feel free to skim over the text, and just oogle the loverly pictures.

First up, Dinner!

 
This is a Roasted Veggie Pie with a Quinoa Crust.  Actually, three of them, because I made too much of the quinoa, and cut up too many veggies. At least I have lunch for the next 3 days!
I couldn't find a recipe for a quinoa crust that wasn't for quinoa flour, so I made one up.
This one used four cups of cooked quinoa, which is
2c dry. I mixed the quinoa with one egg, after letting it cool to room temperature. I pressed the cooled
mixture into each of three well greased pans,

 firmly across the bottom and up the sides. The one recipe I found that was kinda what I wanted, here, said to blind bake it at 350* for 15 minutes.

 I did that, and the crust came out kinda soggy, so next time I think I'll bake it for 25 min, and maybe at 375*.
Then I sliced up 2 green bell peppers, 1 red bell pepper, 1 yellow bell pepper, 1 orange bell pepper, 1 sweet onion, using my brand new food processor! And cut into 1- 1/2 inch pieces about a pound of baby asparagus.
I beat 2 more eggs, and mixed them with about a cup of

water. I layered the veggies into the baked and cooled crusts, and poured a third of the egg mixture onto each one. I baked all three at 400* for 25 minutes, but they came out not quite done. Next time, I think I'll bake them for 35 or 40 minutes, so the veggies are nice and tender. But I will totally make that again!


 Next up, Fiber!

This is the Lopez Special, from Island Fibers.
I had washed it one once, and it was still pretty smelly. So I gave another go with the soap, and it turned out much better the second time around. Then I died it. I was originally going for a pink to purple variegated, but I didn't put enough die in the bath, and not all the fiber got it. That's ok, I'll just over dye it! This time I added some peachy color, and just a splash of green, after flipping the mass of wet fiber over so the bottom and middle could get saturated. This time, it came out perfectly! I let it dry for a few days, and then I started processing it. Now, I don't have a lot of experience, or a lot of tool, pretty much just my two hands, and my spindle. So this was a bit of a challenge. This fiber wasn't all in nice lock formation, like the Cormo, or SBL. It was all kinds of higgeldy piggeldy. But I am, if nothing, stubborn. So to work I went, pulling and fluffing and drafting and sorting and occasionally pushing my cat out of the way. Yes, that is my demon spawn cat, Chaotie. It's short for Chaotic Evil.  And, eventually, I ended up with something resembling sliver, kind of. And a big bag of squiggly odd and ends, that I'm not sure what to do with. But I'm sure I figure something out, the colors came out too pretty to ignore. Maybe felted soaps for Hanukkah presents? 

Good idea, Saylor!
This is it for now, I'll sow you some beautiful blue baby something (wish the animal this stuff came from started with a "b", that would have been too good!) tomorrow, and see how this rainbow-bright stuff spins up.



P.S.- I will totally dye this color again, if I can.