Wednesday 28 April 2021

Making Spiced Nuts

 Nuts are a great snack.  They are my go to as a bedtime snack most nights.  So I thought I would share my spicy nut recipe with you.

Spiced Nuts

Ingredients:

1 large egg white

1/4 cup sugar (I use monks fruit sugar for less calories) 

1/2 tsp salt

1/2  tsp chili powder

1/4 tsp ground all spice

1/2 tsp ground cumin

1 3/4 tsp cayenne pepper

4 cups nuts (any mix will do, cashews, walnuts, pecans, almonds)

Directions:

Preheat oven to 300 deg.  Beat egg white until frothy. Combine all the spices and add to egg white. Mix well. Stir in nuts until well coated and spread mixture in a single layer onto a ungreased cookie sheet.

Mix well


Bake nuts for 15 min and remove from oven. Toss using a spatula to help separate nuts. Reduce oven temperature to 250 deg. and return nuts to bake for another 10min or medium brown. Remove from oven and toss and stir again, then place cookie sheet onto a wire rack to cool.  They will crisp as they cool. Break up any that stick together and enjoy.

Into the oven






Don't they look yummy!!

I must admit I do take short cuts occasionally; this morning I used 2 1/2 tsp of Cajun spice and it works well.  For an Asian flair, 5 spice is another but cut the spice down to 1 tsp and use brown sugar instead.  Italian spice,  Montreal speak spice, just to name a few.


Tuesday 13 April 2021

Our Maple Leaf

 A wonderful quilt made by Rose with our Canadian Flag in mind.


Made for her son, it is wonderful.  Wanting to show off the colors and the bright red maple leaf meant matching threads and keeping the topstitching simple.



It was fun to topstitch the water pattern up and down as I had to load the quilt on its side in order to take advantage of thread swapping.





It turned out fabulous. I'm sure her son is going to love it!!

Pieced back.


Wednesday 7 April 2021

Lisa's Sedona Quilt

 What a wonderful quilt, bright, white, and colorful all mixed into one.


The Sedona was a fun quilt to work on and Lisa loved the meandering feathers that gave the quilt a little motion besides.


Lisa decided to make her Sedona quilt linier rather than the more traditional of mixed blocks and designs. 


Pretty back.

A lovely quilt Lisa, fun to topstitch.

Tuesday 6 April 2021

Keyhole quilt

 Anne From Calgary commissioned me to make this wonderful Keyhole quilt for her.  It is large, about 108" x 115".


The view shown above is only a quarter of the quilt.  It used 2 Bali Pops and about 3m of blue fabric for the top.




All the squares are randomly placed and topstitched with a large meandering feather pattern.  Non computerized of course.




I just love using wide back fabric, you can match the front to the back and make the binding consistent with the rest of the quilt.

I am sure Anne is just going to love it when she comes to pick it up in May.

Mom's Little Monsters.

 I've been having a ball making Mom's Little Monsters on days that we are not renovating Tyler's shop.   Lurch Lurch in his butl...