Yes, it’s another non-knitting-related post. (Well, actually, I will slip in something about knitting, I promise.)

I admit it. I love good food. Sunday I made my usual morning trek to Costco. And there, in all their glory, were huge King Crab legs. Whispering my name as I slowly wandered by the seafood case. “Halibut Oscar!” I thought. I was seduced. Totally seduced. So I had them wrap up one of those bad boys for me. One leg, one pound. Next, over to the fish section for a nice piece of Alaskan halibut. Would they have asparagus? Yes! And wait, what’s that I see? Butternut squash, all nicely peeled and cubed and ready to cook. Perfect! So for dinner, I tossed the cubed squash with a little olive oil and some fresh thyme from the garden, then popped it in the oven to roast. While that was roasting, I de-shelled the crab, steamed the asparagus, and sauteed the fish. Then I made my never-fail Hollandaise sauce: egg yolks, lemon juice, salt, and melted butter (plus a bit of fresh tarragon, just because I had it), all whirred up in the blender. Simple and delicious. Halibut topped with crab, asparagus, and hollandaise, with the roasted squash on the side. DH was in orbit. Well, at least until he had to wash the dishes. I cook, he cleans up. Fair is fair.

I also made a cocktail from a recipe I found on the Internet, called “Worried Monk”. I found it when searching for drinks using Orgeat syrup. I’m not sure what’s stranger - the fact that someone actually created a cocktail using this combination of ingredients, or the fact that I happened to have all of them on hand: white rum, coconut rum, triple sec, yellow Chartreuse, lime juice, and Orgeat syrup. After all, how many people do you know in the U.S. who have yellow Chartreuse. Or green. (I have both.) Anyway, I’m glad I found the recipe. It’s quite tasty.

And now we return to our regularly scheduled knitting posting. (See, I promised.) Yesterday I had made up a few samples of various ideas for our arrowhead lace swap, and was holding them up to me and looking at them in the mirror. It was only then that I realized that the sweater I was wearing had stripes of - you guessed it - little arrowhead lace. Then this morning at work, I noticed that one of my staff members was was wearing a sweater with arrowhead lace. The word was out.

Tonight’s SnB was great… I got to see the start of Erin’s beautiful Venezia pullover. Blogless Karen was wearing a stunning sweater that looked totally fab on her, and the angora in it made it as soft as a whisper. I covet it. Miriam shared some yummy dark chocolate (my fav). And yippee! Laurie brought soap! I bought three bars. “Gentle” for me, “Smolder” for DH, and “Zinger” just for fun.