I might be hopeless

So on Saturday at dinner (previous post) everyone was talking about cooking, cookbooks, Food Network and all that jazz. Anyone who knows me knows that I cannot cook. I'm basically lucky if I can put a sandwich together right. Well all of this cooking talk got me interested in wanting to learn how to actually make something edible that wasn't from a jar or the frozen section in the grocery store. My dear friend Gaby, who is a great cook, told me that all I needed was Joy Of Cooking. That book would apparently teach me all I needed to know. Of course I ran out and bought the book. It is certainly the best cookbook out there. As I was reading through it yesterday afternoon the excitement of cooking was building. I put the book down to make some lunch and that is when I realized I might be a lost cause...

Umm.. that is a yam. A microwaved yam. A cinder-y, smelly, black charcoal-y yam. How in the hell can 1.4 sq ft of microwave produce enough stench to fill 3000 sq ft of house?! My gawd it was awful. All the windows open and a few hours later it wasn't too bad. I think the microwave is going to have to be chucked though. *Note to self.. you might want to read the chapter in the cookbook about potatoes. Even without some basic microwave/potato research you would have thought I would have seen this on the front of the fire starter...

Other than trying to still air out my yam smoke house I have also been trying to air this out...

It's my new Namaste Jetsetter bag in rust. Holy fishsticks that baby has a funky smell. I don't even know if I should put yarn in it yet. I haven't heard of anyone else having a smelly Namaste. Maybe it's just my luck right now. Do you see a trend?

I have no complaints about my other knitting bag that came in the mail from WhiteWillow...

Is that not the cutest sock bag of all time? No comments about how fitting a knitting witch is for me. This little gem doesn't smell and the construction is great. It's lined in duck cloth which makes it much sturdier than a lot of other sock bags I've seen. I can't wait to buy another one.

Buy buy buy. I should be doing more knit knit knit. I hate to admit that I joined yet another sock club this morning. It's safe to say that I won't be able to keep up with the sock knitting as fast as the yarn is going to be coming in. But can you really join too many sock clubs? I think not. More about that in my next post. 

Comments

[Cayli]

I didn't think you could do that to a yam. In fact at first I wasn't even sure what it was. ;)

I love the Namaste bag, too bad that it stinks.

[flutter]

Oh, that sock back is killing me. That is the cutest thing ever

[Stacy]

I love the bags. I really want more but as it stands I have 2 Jordana Paige bags the same but one is red and one is brown(expresso). So happy to get to meet you and I am really looking forward to seeing what all you do or buy.lol