Daily Notes- September 12

Image from Style-Files.  Elle.

I have a rolling restaurant shelving unit in my kitchen.  We tore out the "desk" unit with drawers and cabinets above.  So very 1984.  The wall is painted, not painted with holes, not patched etc.  Waiting. For when we re-do the kitchen.  Until then, rolling shelving.

I have the same assortment on the bottom shelves--- All Clad pans and lids.  Cast iron.  Frying pans. The set of all sizes mixing bowls (nested). On top are my restaurant clear plastic tubs with lids.  For when I make pickles or bread or anything that needs to rest, rise or pickle.  

My jars of utensils are on the stove top.  And tongs are hanging on the oven door handle.

I startled myself late last night with "knowing" what I should make with all this produce.  I was reminded of the pots and pots of vegetable soup I made and ate in March, April and May.  With canned tomatoes, corn etc.   And here I am with a counter filled with red ripe tomatoes.  SOUP!!!!
And the soup recipe is for Summer Soup.  Head Slap!!!!  G will get Tomato Basil with Cheesy Dumplings.  September Soup.

When I click off here, I am going straight to work on my soup.  It's still a bit chilly here in Maine. Thought it has stopped raining. No sunshine.

I washed out, dried and ironed my latest batch of plant based cloth.  I used the spent and dead red blossoms from a wonderful plant blooming right now.  I spread the wilted soft flowers onto the alum soaked cloth.  Rolled, wrapped in foil and steamed for 45 minutes.  Then left to cool outside.  I got blue.  Which I wanted.   I also tried sumac again--another grey.  Goldenrod--more awful yellow--which got splashed with blue food coloring for a pale aqua.  And I smashed acorns from last fall and a few freshly fallen ones and sprinkled them on cloth.  Got a nice flecked brown.  The purple smoke bush leaves didn't transfer as well as that first attempt where I had ghostly shadows of the rounded leaves.  I am going to start a jar of acorns-smashed--in water and see if I can brew a very dark mixture--perhaps adding a few rusty items.  Rusty things are in short supply here.  I may need to leave some things outside for the Winter.

My favorite iron decided to work again.  Don't know why but it's all good.