Debbie Mumm and the Beets

Sounds like a 70's rock band!  LOL.

Well, I just want to remind you not to forget about the Giveaway of that nice Debbie Mumm book.  She is a wonderful lady and would want to spend Christmas in your home, I am sure.  Along with her Ark of Animals and Santas and Duckie Quilts.  Leave a message on THIS POST to be in the running for her book.

I am still cleaning up and rearranging stuff so I have another couple of things to give away so you have to be awake to vie for them!  No snoozin'  !!

The beets were obtained from the Farmer's Market and Bike Ride on Saturday.  Lots of root veggies came home with them.  Carrots, turnips, parsnips.  And some hefty greens for salads like arugula, kale and buttercream lettuce.  And citrus  - Meyer Lemons.

And broccoli as big as a basketball!  Really!

The beets were interesting because I have never had them before not out of a can.  I saved the greens for salads and roasted the beets in the oven for about 30 minutes drenched with olive oils from Greece.  Then when cool, I peeled them by rubbing the peels off with my fingers thusly turning my fingers a nice sharp pink.

Then I sliced them for salad.  Oh, my!  Beet Heaven!

I an going to see if I can get a bushel of beets next week.  Yeah, buddy!

The turnips were trimmed, boiled and mashed.  And the greens cooked down with a ham bone leftover from some unfortunate pig accident. 

glen:  I am hungry all over again.

Giveaway - Low mileage, only driven to guild meetings on Thursdays!

I want to have a giveaway.  Can you tell I am cleaning up my room?  Don't ask. But lets see if you are awake.  I will choose somewhere around Thanksgiving.  How's that?

Well, this giveaway will be for one book.  It is a book I really like, but will never use.  And I won this book in a guild lotto that I didn't even think I entered.  Hmmmmm...........

Anyway.  The book is called More Quick Country Quilting by Debbie Mumm.  I really like Debbie Mumm but she does a lot of applique in this one and I am not an applique kinda person.

She has some really cool kids quilts and some great and fabulous Christmas applique and an entire Ark. 

So if you would like to have it, or know someone it would be perfect for, leave me a message saying something wonderful and exciting ... (ohh, maybe some quilt gossip) ....and I will randomly choose a number using the random number chooser thingy.  Some people make you do all kinds of things and I usually give up before I get it all done....so consequently I never win anything.  In fact I was really surprised to win this book .....  but then I still don't think I dropped my ticket into that bucket.

Hmmmmm..........

The book is in excellent condition, looks like it was never used -- Low mileage, only driven to guild meetings on Thursdays! 

No overseas since this is a hardback book and quite heavy at 256 pages!

glen