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Well, I DESPERATELY need to go to the grocery store... The cupboard is down to "weird condiments" and I'm out of every vegetable except frozen spinach and every starch except 1/2 cup frozen hash browns.
So last night's dinner was an experiment in "What do we have that goes with stewed tomatoes with chilies and and pork tenderlion?" (My only remaining option is now "What do we have that goes with walnuts and worcestershire sauce?") I pureed the stewed tomatoes and added onion powder, brown sugar, and white wine and ended up with a really yummy bbq sauce. So we had spinach rice and pork bbq for the win last night. (I love it when my kitchen experiments taste "exotic" instead of "you were missing 5 ingredients, weren't you???")
On the other hand, my shibori experiment was EPIC FAIL.
By fail, I mean the color differential between the dyed places and the TIED places was minimal. I guess my knots just weren't tight enough. Also, I used a painted dye as a pot dye before I realized that I can't HEAT a painted dye enough to get it to set without creating loads of poison from the urea... Which means that the resulting fabric once dipped would have to be wrung out and dried... only I had NO GLOVES. And drip-drying dye is... I have 2 dogs. Can you IMAGINE the mess?
FAIL.
:/
I'll try a couple of new techniques tonight with a RIT dye bath instead of my expensive Jacquard dye and see what happens. Also, I will remember to steal some gloves from one of the labs...
So last night's dinner was an experiment in "What do we have that goes with stewed tomatoes with chilies and and pork tenderlion?" (My only remaining option is now "What do we have that goes with walnuts and worcestershire sauce?") I pureed the stewed tomatoes and added onion powder, brown sugar, and white wine and ended up with a really yummy bbq sauce. So we had spinach rice and pork bbq for the win last night. (I love it when my kitchen experiments taste "exotic" instead of "you were missing 5 ingredients, weren't you???")
On the other hand, my shibori experiment was EPIC FAIL.
By fail, I mean the color differential between the dyed places and the TIED places was minimal. I guess my knots just weren't tight enough. Also, I used a painted dye as a pot dye before I realized that I can't HEAT a painted dye enough to get it to set without creating loads of poison from the urea... Which means that the resulting fabric once dipped would have to be wrung out and dried... only I had NO GLOVES. And drip-drying dye is... I have 2 dogs. Can you IMAGINE the mess?
FAIL.
:/
I'll try a couple of new techniques tonight with a RIT dye bath instead of my expensive Jacquard dye and see what happens. Also, I will remember to steal some gloves from one of the labs...
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