Made Marian: Oozing Crafty Goodness

My friend (and extended family member ) Laura at Newbrowne has created a food themed meme and I’ve been tagged!  Although not strictly craft related it does refer to things I make so I’m sneaking it in here.

The Foodie Confessions Meme

IN THE KITCHEN

1. My trademark recipe: Lamb Tava (Tessa Kiros)

2. Kitchen gadget or accessory I couldn’t live without: Meat Thermometer

3. Biggest kitchen handicap: I can’t make an omelette (I have tried and I ALWAYS end up with scrambled egg!)

4. Dish/technique that I want to learn: Same answer as Laura - I would love to be better a cutting meats and preparing fish.

5. My top cooking tip: If you use tinned tomatoes for anything, add a sprinkle of sugar too, it makes a huge difference.

INSPIRATION

6. Favourite cuisine/food style: Probably Italian.  Lorraine from Italian Foodies opened up a whole new world to me when she revealed that Italian food is more than pasta and pizza

7. Favourite cook book: Clodagh KcKenna’s new one - Fresh from the Sea

8. Favourite chef: I still love Jamie but for innovation it has to be Heston Blumenthal

9. Favourite food programme: see the above

10. Favourite food magazine: I don’t buy any, there’s plenty of excellent stuff on blogs!

11. Favourite local restaurant: The Market Square Brasserie

INTERNET FOR FOODIES

12. Favourite foodie website: I don’t have a favourite

13. Favourite recipe search: Twecipe – same

14. Online recipe binder: same

15. Favourite food blog: Italian Foodies and I’m loving I can has Cook? at the moment! (I only read Irish food blogs)

FAVOURITE RECIPES

16. Main course: Changes all the time but at the moment it’s Lakeshore Pork (from the Avoca Book)

17. Quickie: Sweet and Sour (even made from scratch takes no time at all)

18. Soup/salad: Broccoli, Feta and cherry tomato salad from the Avoca Book

19. Baked treat or dessert: Mars Bar Mousse

20. Self-invented (or adapted): I usually on invent recipes on “use up everything in the fridge day”

I’m not going to tag anyone but feel free to answer the meme if you fancy and don’t forget to stop by and say hi to Laura.

I bought this little vest top in Penney’s a few months back to see if it was possible to embroider onto that kind of jersey fabric.  The lesson of the day is that, yes you can but it’s a lot of work!  As suggested by Grannymar ages ago, I lined the embroidery hoop with bias binding and that definitely helped prevent any lasting marks on the fabric.  So for anyone who might be thinking of pimping some vest tops, that is a top-tip

The tops of the feelers and the blue dots in the bottom of the wings are embellishments that are sewn on and the butterfly’s body and head were donated by Ruth after she saw my WIP and suggested that she might have just the thing to finish him off.

This was a time consuming project but it was well worth it as I now have a one of a kind vest top for the princely sum of €3.  By the way this is the same patterns as I did here.