Posts from — June 2007

I made up this dish last night and my husband raved (he raves about all my dishes though and he *may* be biased…consider yourself warned).  It’s a simple, healthy, summer dish that can be made in the time it takes for you to make brown rice (about half an hour, depending on your method).

Exported from MasterCook …if you don’t know about MasterCook, you should.   :heart: :heart: :heart: it.  Fabulous for organizing things you find from the food network and allrecipes.com.  You can use your web browser to easily import recipes into the program from the web (no typing!), add pictures or videos and add your own recipes too, of course.  It even does nutritional analysis and allows you to export to text, email or mastercook format.  Cool, eh?

Diva’s Delight

Recipe By:  Cheryl Kemp
Serving Size:   4    

  Amount  Measure       Ingredient — Preparation Method
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  1              small  red bell pepper — chopped
  1/2         whole  red onion — chopped
  1             clove  garlic — chopped, add more to taste
  1             medium  zucchini — sliced
  14 1/2    ounces  canned chopped tomatoes
  12            ounces  extra firm tofu

  3        tablespoons  fresh herbs — I used thyme, parsley, basil and chives
                        salt — to taste
                        pepper — to taste
  1                cup  brown rice — cooked
  1/2           cup  feta cheese 

Saute garlic, onion, red bell pepper and zucchini until lightly caramelized.  Add tomato and tofu.  Simmer until tofu is heated through.  Add herbs, salt and pepper to taste.

Serve over brown rice (cooked using your preferred method…I boiled it this time instead of using the steamer) and top with feta cheese.

Source:   http://www.divaknitting.com
Copyright:  Copyright 2007 Chery Kemp, Diva Knitting
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Per Serving: 333 Calories; 10g Fat (24.9% calories from fat); 15g Protein; 50g Carbohydrate; 4g Dietary Fiber; 17mg Cholesterol; 234mg

Sorry it took me so long to get this up, but I had a *brilliant* idea of posting an OPML file so you can easily add the contest participants to your Bloglines or other RRS Feed reader (since we all have basically the same idea of what makes a good knit blog and probably all strive for those qualities I thought you might enjoy visiting each other).  So 1022 clicks and 5 hours later (ok, not quite that many but A LOT and I have a headache now where is my wine?) I have the file for you (download here).  If I left you out, you either didn’t have an RRS feed (there were a couple) didn’t have a blog (why not?  at least go here and put up some of your stuff) or I just missed a click (please let me know if I left you out and I will add you).  Of the entrants, there were a few I was already subscribed to but the vast majority were new to me!  I’m excited to learn of some new blogs and look forward to visiting them more in depth over the next few weeks.  Thanks again to everyone who participated.  I wish I could give everyone something…oh wait!  I sort of can!  Check your email for a coupon to the Diva Knitting store.

Now for the list of random (love you Excel!) winners and their prizes: ”Grand Prize”of 10 skeins Noro Kureyon 95 goes to Teyani of Intrepid Fiber Wizard

Heather of the A.D.D. knitter is getting 10 skeins of Two.Two 

I hope Debi of Fluffy Knitter Deb, TurtleGirl of Turtlegirl’s Blog Thingie and Eyeleen of Knitting by Eye all knit socks, because they are each getting a skein of Lana Grosssa sock yarn  (meilenweit multiringel)

Cece of Fiberfish is getting two skiens of Artful Yarns Museum in “Amazone” and  Chris of Stumbling over Chaos will recieve a skein of Artful Yarns Museum in “Zanzibar”. 

Cookie of Shut Up and Knit gets to try a skein of Rio De La Plata Multicolor (one of my favs!)

Elizabeth of Trailing Yarn will receive 3 skeins of Valley Yarns Berkshire

Anne-Marie of The Chicks with Sticks is getting 7 skeins of Berroco Pronto in blue and Theresa of Knitting Underway gets 4.5 skeins of the same in coral

Stephane of Knit Steph gets two skeins of Classic Elite Bravo

Finally, Becky of Moonfrog gets four skeins of Jo Sharp DK Wool and Lime Dragon gets two skeins of Cascade 220 in 8886

Whew that is a lot of linkage!  I’ll be in touch soon to get your snail mail address. 

Don’t get too excited yet. I haven’t drawn the names so I don’t know who won. I did take the time to assemble the yarny goodness I am giving away though…as promised a bag of Noro Kureyon (95) and 3 skeins of sock yarn. Other prizes include yarns from Jo Sharp, Artyarns and Cascade and others. I will announce the winners soon!