Shrimp, crackers and Textiles and Tea

Yesterday I did the shrimp, dipped in aqua faba, as an eggwash substitute,  then cooked in a mixture of oil and the liquid off the shrimp, and breaded with panko.

Here cooking away, soon browned enough 

I made a Will Yeung style dipping sauce and the crunchy shrimp were great. I took the single person's privilege of having a one item meal. Just shrimp. Lovely. 

Today is about crackers. I'm planning on red lentil crackers with all kinds of seeds chucked in. I haven't made crackers for a while, so this will be good. I love crackers and cheese.

I was surprised at the variety of seeds I have here, caraway, fennel, cumin, methi. Should be interesting.

So here's the upshot 

Ending in afternoon snack of crackers and cheese with tea, just in time for Textiles and Tea,  featuring Lynne Dees.  

She's a great freeform basket weaver making commentary on the political and natural environment in wonderful pieces she hand dyes. Her large pieces, about 40" + inches square, take inspiration from tobacco baskets, large, shallow and open weave to store the leaves but let air circulate.

She's a basket weaver without borders! Take a look

This is really painting with reed.

Coraline Cake, reference to the suffrage movement in America where suffragists wrote and sold cookbooks as fundraisers and to counter the vicious claims that they were neglecting their families and ruining everyone's lives! The recipe for this cake is embroidered around the placemat.

Left is a detail from Australia Burning, see her website for the whole piece

Fish trap. It's caught mainly plastic refuse

Crab trap likewise

This piece reflects on a period when the artist's  heart suddenly gave her trouble

She was originally a painter and makes drawings and paintings of design ideas

This was a lovely episode, and makes a person want to weave baskets!

Happy day, everyone! Get weavin. One way or another.