I didn't really have time to knit last night. I was cooking. Normally I try not to make anything terribly intensive during the week. Last night I decided I wanted to make the champagne-poached pears to use up the seckel pears I bought. I have a tendency to buy fruit and forget to eat it (because I'm saving it until I have time to make something... big mistake).
Of course, we had a bottle of cheap pink champagne, more than half way gone. It wasn't nearly enough for the liquid called for in the recipe, so I added what was left of a bottle of white wine and some sake. I only used 2 cups of alcohol instead of the 3.5 cups called for, because I wanted to preserve the flavor of the pears in the pink champagne (and it would have been mostly sake otherwise). Lacking lemons, I zested a blood orange (which I ate this morning. It was delicious), and otherwise followed the recipes as instructed.
They came out pretty good. Not too time consuming, because the recipe is mostly a waiting game. Add the ingredients, simmer, cool. And the seckel pears were very cute. Because of the copious amount of liquid left in the recipe, I'm pretty sure that I could use the poaching liquid a second time with equally tasty results. Because I was lazy, I served them (one pear a serving) with a small amount of the poaching liquid and a spoonful of fat free coolwhip.
I also made soup, which took the rest of the evening. It's really hard to make progress on the knitting front when you manage to have no time to knit. It's not something that can be done by little air gnomes afterall.
