Eye Candy Friday - MitPP Socks, Yarn and Peaches!!

I love Eye Candy Friday. I can do whatever random thing I want. Granted I can do this any ol' day of the week, but this day has a glowing eyeball in a candy wrapper and that makes is SO much more fun!

Yeah I've been up for far too long already. Or rather far too early. Been up since 4:30 am. *fallsover* Anywho here are mu Midnight in the Pumpkin Patch socks. The  color is a little odd off. The orange is a lighter brighter orange and the green and purples are much darker.  I'll have to try to get a piccie out in the afternoon sun to see if I can get a better representation of the colors. I took 36 pictures in a variety of ways and couldn't capture it. This is the best one so far.

I'm pretty pleased with the way it's striping up. :D I can't wait to wear my Halloween Sockies!!

Okay now on my last post Scout asked why I needed her if I can dye my own. Well first of all, I'm just a newbie and I'm using Icing and drink mixes to dye so it's not like I'm totally self sufficient at yarny stuff. But even if I was the best yarn dyer in the world that still wouldn't make me want to stop buying other peoples yarn. For one thing quality of yarn used to dye is a factor. But the MAIN reason is that each person has their own creative vision when it comes to this stuff. I don't think I'll ever get tired of exploring the creative endeavors of the yarn world just because I every now and then happen to dabble in it myself.  There are tons of companies out there with interesting yarns. Plus a bunch of cool people who have small batch hand dyed yarns. I loves those muchly. Dave's yarn at Cabin Cove Mercantile is one of my absolute favorites and I can't wait to get my first order from Scout's Swag. Heck I even ordered some yummy yarn from That's So Twisted that Cookie recently pointed out to me. I got it in the mail yesterday. It is sooo pretty! It's called Neapolitan and looks like yarn candy!

Heh. You know come to think of it I heard about all three of my crack yarn dealers from Cookie. Y'all should thank her. :P

Now here's a photograph I can feel pretty good about. My last two had lighting issues. I think I shouldn't try to take pictures at night. I have a huge window with wonderful light where I take piccies and sometimes it works out. Sometimes it still doesn't, but oh well.

Some people know how to make Jam it seems. While others just try to fake it.

I'm a Jam Faker. *L*

I call this Twice Cooked Peaches. They get cooked twice if you can believe it. :P

I first made this back in January of 2005. We were trapped in our apartment thanks to 20 feet of snow and the honey really wanted jammy toast. We had bread but no jam or jelly. We did have two peaches though. So I tried something new. I've seen blackberry's get cooked down into syrup and jam and figured I could fake it.

Recipe: Twice Cooked Peaches

One huge ripe peach... or two smaller ones. The main thing is that they have to SMELL really peachy. If your fruit doesn't smell yummy is more than likely isn't.

Two slices of Trader Joes Shepard's Bread or whatever type of bread you fancy. Homemade would be super cool, although I've never baked real bread... Hmmm maybe I'll try that this Autumn. :D

Small pat of butter and a sprinkle or two of raw sugar.

First slice up your peach. (the last time I made this the peaches were so huge I only needed one) If you are planning on using neat shapes use your mini cookie cutters to cut out the shapes from the best pieces. Also you can use larger cookie cutters or pancake/egg fry molds to cut larger shapes in your bread if you wish to do so.

Example:

Next dice up the rest of the peach and add those and any of the left over bits from the cut out into a warm skillet. Add in your butter and most of your raw sugar and let simmer up. You'll want to cut the pieces up even smaller with your spatula as they get soft. Finally mush them up with the flat back part of your spatula. It's fun and yummy!

Right before the final mush up:

Top the bread with your fast peach preserves and the cut out shapes then pop into a pre-warmed oven that is set at 375 on a foil covered cookie sheet. If you wish for an extra sweet glaze on top you can sprinkle with some more raw sugar. Once the bread starts to look slightly browned you can set your oven on broil for a few minutes to glaze up the top of your peaches. Then just dig in after it's cooled a bit!

Less Yummy looking piccie, but here you get to see how the shapes worked out. (broil them with the skin side down, it looks better)

Alrighty now to go have a GREAT Friday! :D

Comments

[Cookie]

I love the sock! Love the new yarn. You can thank Sil for that, btw. She's a better enabler than I am. *L*

Could you freeze your peachy stuff? Then it could be freezer jam... right?

Now I'm hungry. *sigh*

[Dave Daniels]

OMG! That yarn is eve nbetter than I thought it would be. I tought it was three different skeins in yesterday's post! How cool. I like the blend of colors. They remind me of pumpkins and mums, two of my favorites for fall.
Even though I dye a lot of my own yarn, I still buy from the independent dyers, too. I have quite a nice little stash going that I've been working my way through. (Pippi's stuff is awesome, I HIGHLY recomend her stuff.) And I buy off Etsy, eBay, whatever grabs my eye. And it's true, everyone is so different in how they do their stuff.

[jae]

Love the sock, love the yarn, love the peaches. Lots of love, today!!
;)

[scoutj]

Did you warp that yarn? To dye it?

[scoutj]

And I want some peaches!

[Ann]

I love that sock yarn..it's too darn cute and adorable.

MMMmmmmmmmmmmm I love peaches and your toast and jam looks like it would be heaven to the eyes and to the tummy.

You are so darn creative!

[Barbp]

I love your halloween socks. Perfect colors...this time of year it's so hard to get good pictures!! Food porn tooo....yummmm