Cookies, yogurt & crocheting.

Although this happened... less than 300 miles on new tires.

I still have nothing of interest to post.. hence the delay from me. But I was pretty busy in the kitchen. KD had a surgery on Thursday, resulting in 14 stitches on her cheek, and has been recovering since. Friday afternoon, she said pizza was for dinner but asked me to make some yummy dessert. We chatted about possibilities and as I was leaning towards Pumpkin Snickerdoodle Cookies, (possibly because of my Snickerdoodle coffee creamer) she did a little dance and said, "But I want oatmeal and cranberry cookies!" So I made both.

Messy kitchen, broken wisk, finished cookies

 In the middle of making the pumpkin snickerdoodles, I realized we had no pumpkin. So I had to run to the store (on my "new-new" tire). While I was there I grabbed some supplies to attempt making Greek Yogurt (turns out that's still in progress), and some new crochet hooks and yarn. (As it appears the hooks I did have, have been lost in our move last winter.)

The oatmeal cranberry cookies came out great, the snickerdoodles taste great, but had a strange dense texture. Not that they were bad, just unexpected. And I found the texture improved the next day.

I also threw a half gallon of milk in the crock pot to start my Greek Yogurt attempt. While waiting for it to reach the right temp, I went off to practice crocheting stitches. I did alright.. until I stopped and realized that I somehow managed to LOSE stitches as I went. My practice piece ended up a lot shorter than it started.

Finally I decided I was tired, and confused, so I went to finish up the yogurt and go to bed. Finishing the yogurt entailed adding a small about of live culture yogurt to the milk, and canning it, then putting it in the microwave with the light on for 8-12 hours to culture. Come morning, its still thinner than it should be, so I'm going to try straining it and see if that helps it thicken up. And the stitches that had confused me so, made a lot more sense after a bunch of sleep.

Milk into crockpot, jars in microwave, crochet practice.

Now, I'm working on a scarf. I think I made it a little to narrow, and I'm not totally pleased with my edges, so once I get the length finished, I think I am going to line the edges in black. Should help to hide my somewhat sloppy edges (although as I go they are getting better) and add a little more width to it. I shall be sure to share the finished results with you. Along with the yogurt results if I manage to make it come together.

UPDATE: I realized the scarf was getting smaller too. I completely pulled it apart to the very last stitch and restarted. It's wider (but I think I'll still do black trim) and I'm counting after every row now to make sure I have every stitch I should. (Because my attention span is too short to count while making a row, I can't get past 5 without losing count.)