Filling food and embroidered oriental rugs

The weather being cold, grey and dampis, it was time for a warm filling Saturday lunch. Like this 

Roast tiny potatoes, bean and carrot croquettes, with Annie's Ketchup, the best. Since beans and carrots are bland, you can get very generous with spices. 

I used smoked paprika, berbere and home mixed umami seasoning. I mashed it all up with an egg, rolled the results in panko crumbs, and fried in olive oil, very hot. 

This is one of the advantages of partly cooking the vegetables ahead. They still taste good, but are quicker to cook. And there's more for tomorrow, as usual.

Dessert was the favorite blueberries in lime juice and yogurt beaten together with a bit of pure cane sugar. 

I did a session of free weights, leg exercises, before this and the combination of the exercise and the filling lunch caused me to fall asleep a couple of times while I was supposed to be watching a great gallery of Oriental rugs. 

It was a New England Rug Museum event with a couple who've been collecting marvelous suzani, embroidered rugs for years.

As usual with collectors, there wasn't much about the actual rug making, size or material, more about dates and circumstances of their acquisition.  

These are so lovely to see that I just want to show you a few, including a page from a notebook of patterns you might like to take as ideas if you're an embroiderer.

Then later, cake.

 

A loaf of sweet potato honey bread with

cranberries and chocolate chips 

And the cook's privilege, first slice with a spoonful of plain yogurt.

Happy day everyone! It's okay to doze off now and then.  

Sez 

Ted and Big Ursy.

Mme. Fluffapalooza agrees. She should. She dozes off about twenty hours a day.