Beef, It's What's for Diner!

I had a slower day today; only the grocery, a workout, and an hour in the school library.  So...

We're having pot roast and chocolate and butterscotch chip cookies for dinner!  Not necessarily in that order.

The pot roast is easy.  Brown a good roast in olive oil.  Put it in a crock pot and add:  4 cloves garlic, some celery, a few carrots, a chopped onion, half a bottle of V8 and half a bottle of red wine -- I used a really good Tuscan something or other.  Cook on high for 5 hours.  Then add pearl onions, baby carrots and mushrooms.  Cook some more.  I think I'll serve this over egg noodles since we just had mashed potatoes, but either is good.  You can chill it and heat later if you want to skim the fat.

The cookies are Amanda's secret recipe (except for the butterscotch chips -- they called for me to take me home from the grocery store today and I did) and she can share it  if she wants to.  Let's just say they are good. 

The weather is blustery, but not cool yet.  It made me want to work in the kitchen, I guess.

And... shhh.  I don't want to jinx this.  I unwound my singles from their bobbin this morning?  And I soaked them to set the twist?  And I kind of like them.  I'm planning on a small shawl as I have no idea how much yarn I have (no niddy noddy yet). 

This yarn  is certainly nowhere near perfect.  Hand spun indeed.  But the second skein (the one on top) is tons better than the first and that's really all you can ask for, isn't it? 

I, for one, am enchanted.

And, in case you forgot...