Diane's Blog at LumberJocks.com http://lumberjocks.com/jocks/Artist/blog Thu, 31 May 2007 21:28:35 GMT Original Recipes - #2: Mock Mashed Potatoes http://lumberjocks.com/jocks/Artist/blog/1155 Steam a banana in a vegetable steamer in it’s peel. Mine broke open when it was cooked. I then the took banana pulp out of peel and mashed and buttered it and added salt. It is pretty good.

If anyone tries this and comes up with a tasty topping let me know.

I have to rotate foods I eat so I don’t expect to get a lot of banana recipes in a string.

Diane

]]> Thu, 31 May 2007 21:28:35 GMT http://lumberjocks.com/jocks/Artist/blog/1155 Diane Diane Original Recipes - #1: Wheat and pototo free but recipes everyone will love http://lumberjocks.com/jocks/Artist/blog/1096 Since I have many food allergies, wheat and potato are two of them, I sometimes come up with original recipes so I thought I’d share two I just came up with. I just sent them to Martha Stewart, don’t know if she will do anything with them but if anyone can get these recipes out to others she could. All I know is I just had my neighbor test the Fried Banana and I got, THAT’S SO GOOD, twice and this lady is not one for compliments. They are so easy to make too. Here are my recipes:

Fried Bananas
Ingredients: bananas and Gerber Organic whole grain rice cereal for
baby, oil and salt to taste.

Slice a banana for each serving about 1/4” thick. Get oil hot in pan. Take a zip-lock bag and put in Gerber’s Organic Whole Grain Rice cereal and toss banana pieces with the cereal. Keep tossing until the moisture from the banana pieces start to come through, keep tossing until moist again and repeat. Then fry these up until brown on both sides. The centers will be a melt in your mouth rich banana taste with a bit of a crunch.

Mock Fried Potato

Ingredients: banana, oil and salt to taste.

Cut the banana slices as in the first recipe but place on paper towel or other to dry and place in frig until banana pieces look dried out on surfaces. Get oil hot and drop in and fry on both sides and then salt. If cooked enough they taste much like potatoes.

Diane

]]> Wed, 23 May 2007 22:03:37 GMT http://lumberjocks.com/jocks/Artist/blog/1096 Diane Diane Balance Board Video - how to make one http://lumberjocks.com/jocks/Artist/blog/1026 I thought many of you would like this video on building a balance board for building core strength. I think it would make a nice project and would be great exercise.

http://www.instructables.com/id/EDD7R6KO9NEZ7BDXU9/

Diane

]]> Thu, 17 May 2007 09:31:37 GMT http://lumberjocks.com/jocks/Artist/blog/1026 Diane Diane My Inkle Loom - Need some help getting started http://lumberjocks.com/jocks/Artist/blog/811 I made the heddles today only to find out the directions must of been in error because I believe they should be twice the length that I ended up with.

I really think I need someone to walk me though getting started. Does anyone want to help me that has an Inkle loom in use already? I ended up with heddles loops 6 inches long, I believe they should be about 11 1/2” instead. I believe the heddles are put on by folding them in half and looping over the heddles bar so 6 inches would leave little space to pass a shuttle through.

The heddles directions that I followed were on this site: inkleweaving.com. Instead of dividing the length in half after measure from the heddle bar to the top of warp bar I think I was suppose to keep that measurement. The measurement I got was the 11 1/2 inches.

I am a bit lost. I am very good at following directions, I can put together almost anything that way, but the directions I’m finding are not very good.

I did just join an Inkle group and posted the directions off of the site I mentioned above and if they think my heddles should be the 11 1/2 inches like I think.

Diane

]]> Tue, 17 Apr 2007 04:20:01 GMT http://lumberjocks.com/jocks/Artist/blog/811 Diane Diane Yahoo Blog http://lumberjocks.com/jocks/Artist/blog/714 The URL I had here I wasn’t sure it was working so I put another link below.

I want to tell you all something that might help alot of you. I’ve seen free wood offered alot lately in a group I belong to. It is called freecycle.org. You go to the site find your area and than join. In your group you can post an offer or a want. No money is to be exchanged. You can get all kinds of things free this way. It is a good way to get rid of clutter in your home as well. Every time I think I’d like something I check to see if someone has that item that they don’t want first.

Oh, I forgot to mention pass this on to other here.

Diane

]]> Thu, 05 Apr 2007 20:02:56 GMT http://lumberjocks.com/jocks/Artist/blog/714 Diane Diane