Mardi Gras
Laissez les bon temps rouler!
Today I'm getting ready for tomorrow, which involves a lot of animal fat. We used to eat pancakes on Shrove Tuesday -- Mardi Gras -- BUT we now have a thoroughly decadent item called "Cajun Meat Pie" which involves both a pound and a half of ground meat, a pretty intense roux, and a bunch o' butter, and I make it every year, and then that's IT for the rest of the year.
Also today I must bake the King Cake, also involving a bunch o' butter.
But then after that the next day is Ash Wednesday, starting off my very favorite season of the year. So Balance and Sanity are coming.
Not today or tomorrow, though. Even if we're not in New Orleans, we can practice some excess, and according to our calendar, we are now to be in Excess Mode.
Part of which would be this:
Does anybody recognize it? It's Alice Starmore's "Mardi Gras," from The Scottish Collection, published by The Tomato Factory Yarn Collection, 1992. I find it very amusing. It's not a subtle cardigan, as you can see, I think, no matter what your browser's doing today. While I was working on it, people would come up to me and say things like, "Those colors shouldn't work together. But they DO!"
I don't wear it much. I mean really. You have to be in a certain mood.
It's clearly not an interpretation of New Orleans' Mardi Gras, as if it were, it would be done up in purple, green, and gold. It's a Scottish Mardi Gras. Which involves, apparently, blinding the local highland deer.
For those of you who are prone to Starmore envy, I'll now tell you that those are the original yarns, from a kit put together by the Tomato Factory. And Ms. Starmore picked out the buttons herself.
But I did the knitting part.
Today I'm getting ready for tomorrow, which involves a lot of animal fat. We used to eat pancakes on Shrove Tuesday -- Mardi Gras -- BUT we now have a thoroughly decadent item called "Cajun Meat Pie" which involves both a pound and a half of ground meat, a pretty intense roux, and a bunch o' butter, and I make it every year, and then that's IT for the rest of the year.
Also today I must bake the King Cake, also involving a bunch o' butter.
But then after that the next day is Ash Wednesday, starting off my very favorite season of the year. So Balance and Sanity are coming.
Not today or tomorrow, though. Even if we're not in New Orleans, we can practice some excess, and according to our calendar, we are now to be in Excess Mode.
Part of which would be this:
Does anybody recognize it? It's Alice Starmore's "Mardi Gras," from The Scottish Collection, published by The Tomato Factory Yarn Collection, 1992. I find it very amusing. It's not a subtle cardigan, as you can see, I think, no matter what your browser's doing today. While I was working on it, people would come up to me and say things like, "Those colors shouldn't work together. But they DO!"
I don't wear it much. I mean really. You have to be in a certain mood.
It's clearly not an interpretation of New Orleans' Mardi Gras, as if it were, it would be done up in purple, green, and gold. It's a Scottish Mardi Gras. Which involves, apparently, blinding the local highland deer.
For those of you who are prone to Starmore envy, I'll now tell you that those are the original yarns, from a kit put together by the Tomato Factory. And Ms. Starmore picked out the buttons herself.
But I did the knitting part.
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