{"id":4440,"date":"2015-02-04T11:15:36","date_gmt":"2015-02-04T16:15:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.laurachau.com\/?p=4440"},"modified":"2015-02-04T11:15:36","modified_gmt":"2015-02-04T16:15:36","slug":"snow-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.laurachau.com\/?p=4440","title":{"rendered":"Snow Day(s)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Enough snow for ya? ;) Thanks so much for the nice comments on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ravelry.com\/patterns\/library\/winter-brunch-shawl\">Winter Brunch<\/a> &#8211; I can&#8217;t wait to see some other ones knitted up.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday we went to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msadventuresinbaking.com\">friend&#8217;s<\/a> house for a Superb Owl party. It was, indeed, owl-themed. There was &#8220;a&#8221; super bowl playing (from 1976), loads of food and fun. Thanks for the awesome party Yvonne, Jeremy and Booker! Check out this AMAZING snack stadium they built! Truly awe-inspiring.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Hardcore Superb Owl party!! by laura chau, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/cosmicpluto\/15820790104\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"thumbnail aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7376\/15820790104_c48930b8de_z.jpg\" alt=\"Hardcore Superb Owl party!!\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sunday night the snowstorm blew in and I haven&#8217;t left the house since. I&#8217;m just fine with that, I&#8217;m such a homebody! As long as I have coffee, the internet, and knitting, I could probably stay home forever. Plus, we just got a new bigger bed with nice new sheets and big fluffy pillows, which makes getting out of bed pretty difficult!<\/p>\n<p>But I have been trying to take advantage of the time to buckle down on some bigger projects that have been lingering. I finished one piece, out of <a href=\"http:\/\/zenyarngarden.co\">Zen Yarn Garden<\/a> worsted &#8211; cabley goodness.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"cabley by laura chau, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/cosmicpluto\/15823226693\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"thumbnail aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8575\/15823226693_4bc8ecc2ae_z.jpg\" alt=\"cabley\" width=\"640\" height=\"425\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yesterday I knit a whole sleeve while finishing up my read of 1Q84 (Haruki Murakami), which was super long but very enjoyable.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"knitting with targhee by laura chau, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/cosmicpluto\/16441513211\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"thumbnail aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7296\/16441513211_96185f897b_z.jpg\" alt=\"knitting with targhee\" width=\"640\" height=\"425\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Eating: I made a pretty awesome sausage pasta sauce last night! Quickie recipe: brown 1lb sausage, casings removed (ours was honey garlic pork), take out of the pan. Saute 1 onion, 2 carrots, 225g package cremini mushrooms, chopped, plus a couple cloves of garlic, minced. Deglaze the pan with some red wine (scrape up the browned bits from the sausage), season with salt, pepper, oregano. Add back the sausage and 1 bottle passata (or crushed tomatoes), cover and simmer the whole thing for maybe 20-30 minutes, while you boil the pasta and clean up. Serve over pasta with mozzarella! Yum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enough snow for ya? ;) Thanks so much for the nice comments on Winter Brunch &#8211; I can&#8217;t wait to see some other ones knitted up. On Sunday we went to a friend&#8217;s house for a Superb Owl party. It was, indeed, owl-themed. 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