All She Does is Win, Win, Win, Win, Win

My sister...rocks.  If she were in the Super Bowl of knitting, she just threw the winning touchdown pass and caught it herself to get the touchdown in the last 10 seconds. Or something.  Ok, gimme a break...I'm new at the whole watching sports thingy.

I came home today to find a package waiting at my door.  A lovely creation by j. howe.  I suggest you all get your orders in early cuz this shit is about to blow up.

Etch-A-Sketch Laptop Cover

Made just for me by J.Howe

It fits perfectly next to my Slinky and Magic 8 Ball!

Oh, and back to the Super Bowl for one more second.  (Sorry, only the 2nd one I've seen in the last 8 years!)  I loved the M&M commercial best. Yeah, this one.

what time is the super bowl?

true story- i'm not excited to watch the big game tonight. but i am excited to sit on the couch and knit! so get your needles ready- game time is 6.30!!

go bills!!!

homemade christmas

so i realized something in 2011. i don't like cooking. and i definitely don't like blogging about cooking. oy vey was that a terrible blog topic. but kudos to meg for sticking with it and being the lone blogger!!! that howe girl did stuff!!

what i did realize in 2011 was that i love knitting. and not in a normal human-hobby kind of way. this sh*t is real. at first i was eh about it, but then i really started liking it. but then it got all "i was just a stupid bet" with me and tried to make me cable and read charts and i tried to walk away. i thought i knew what i wanted. but in the end, i was able to overcome all our differences and make it work. call up kate hudson, cause we have a fan-fucking-tastic romcom on our hands.

i love knitting so much that i made a lot of my christmas presents this year, which i was very excited about. i pulled a grandma cully and made marmie and meg the same thing, and even made them open their presents at the same time!! they both got a cowl based on something completely overpriced from the gap, and a pair of fingerless mitts. btw, my mom is a fox. and can you tell meg moved to la?? i think it was around 80 when she took the pic for me.

my favorite present, however, was what i made for my dad. after much searching, i realized i wouldn't find a pattern for a sabres hat, so i kind of made up my own based on a couple of others. in the end, i'm super excited with the end product! the only problem was that its a tad big for my daddio's head. oh well. he rocks it like were a winning team! LETS GO BUFFALO!!


since i was having such a great time knitting, i didn't stop with just the presents. i made an owl hat with a pom pom!!

and mustaches (elephant not included)!!!
so while the 2011 resolution may have been a bust, im hoping 2012 is much better. i made a ton of resolutions, including knitting more and possibly starting my own site to sell some stuff (who really needs 6 pair of owl mitts?!?). i've also resolved to learn a foreign language (spanish), learn basic web coding, pretend to go to the gym, and yes, cook. so far so good on each resolution, but its still january!!


happy knitting!!

Christmas Miracles!

This holiday season has been jam packed with Christmas miracles.  First, the Buffalo Bills walloped the Denver Broncos on Christmas Eve.  We celebrated.

This is HOWE we do it Tebow!

Then, I got my non-speaking niece and nephew to say my name.

Nephew Noah was the first to say Meg

Then Alice said Meg too.

And finally, with the help of my mom, I finished Nephew Nate's wolf.  He doesn't have the fuzzy cheeks called for in the pattern.  However, I gave him a fancy mustache for good measure.

The wolf and I had a drink to celebrate our success!

George meets the wolf.  Check out the 'stache!

Happy holidays!  I do believe, I do, I do...

Happy Knitting!

Just read this...and LOVE it. 

KnitRiot Strikes Again!

Epic Fail

The Graduate and knitting...a fine day...or so it seemed...

Our blog this year has been greatly abandoned.  This does not mean we have not been cooking or knitting, just that we got swept away in the business of every day life.

So, here is a quick update on my recent attempts at getting something posted on here.  In the knitting realm, I have been working on another toy.  My nephew Nate requested a wolf for his birthday and I found a pattern he liked and started knitting about a month ago.  Last week I discovered a problem with the pattern and conferred with Marmie who said the problem was in fact, with the pattern.  Since then, I have put the project on hold but hope to pick it up and make my way through some solutions this weekend.

Until I noticed the first of many fails. Notice the color in the pattern...

And then the cooking world.  I came home from school sick today and decided after some rest it would be a good day to meet our October goal of making soup.  I found a pretty basic recipe in my Julia Child cookbook and set to cooking.  VERY simple.  Peel and cut potatoes.  Cut onions.  Throw in pot with other vegetables.  (I chose cauliflower.)  Simmer for an hour.  Take off lid.  Simmer for 15 minutes.  Mash.  Yeah.  I got a watery mess of vegetable garbage.  I ate a pear.


So while my recent attempts at posting for this blog failed, I am glad that I have successfully posted something!  Hopefully my lovely ladies will follow suit! 

Yes Folks, There is a Blogger

Delish!

So while the other Howe girls are busy with life, I am still truckin along, maintaining not one but TWO blogs all by myself.  I did not forget about our June Mediterranean recipe.  Last night I made mussels for the Howe boys since the Howe girls were doing who-knows-what.

I stuck to my go-to place for recipes: RealSimple.com.  I swear people, this is the place to find food recipes.  It was a beautiful dish to prepare on a sunny summer evening.  The only adjustment I made was not to include the olives.  My brother Zach had never had mussels before and I had never made them so this was a risky meal to be sure.  I started with shrimp for an appetizer and we served white wine. 

So here ya go folks.  Oh, by the way, I am also knitting a little yellow bag from the Stitch n' Bitch book.

Ingredients

Steaming Mussels in Mom's Cast-Iron Pot

• 2 tablespoons unsalted butter
• 2 cloves garlic, finely chopped
• 1 large onion, finely chopped
• kosher salt and black pepper
• 1 cup dry white wine
• 1 pound beefsteak tomatoes, seeded and diced
• 1/2 cup pitted kalamata olives, roughly chopped
• 2 pounds mussels, scrubbed
• 1/2 cup fresh flat-leaf parsley, chopped
• 1 small baguette, warmed

Directions

1. Melt the butter in a large pot over medium heat. Add the garlic, onion, ½ teaspoon salt, and ¼ teaspoon pepper. Cook until just tender, 4 to 5 minutes.
2. Add the wine and simmer until slightly reduced, 2 to 3 minutes. Stir in the tomatoes and olives.
3. Add the mussels and cook, covered, until they open, 3 to 4 minutes. Discard any that remain closed. Stir in the parsley.
4. Divide the mussels and cooking liquid among bowls. Serve with the bread.



The Empty Shells!