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Brown Rice Salads

Brown Rice Salad 1

Serves 6

Crisp carrots, cucumbers, radishes and celery combine with fresh basil, mint and parsley in this honey-Dijon dressed rice salad. Served chilled or at room temperature, this versatile dish is perfect for al fresco dining alongside your choice of protein.

Ingredients

2 1/2 cups cooked long-grained brown rice ( Learn to Cook: Brown Rice) 1/2 cup chopped carrots

1/2 cup chopped seedless cucumber

1/2 cup sliced radishes

1/2 cup chopped celery

1/2 cup chopped red onion

1 cup fresh or frozen and thawed peas 1/4 cup chopped basil

1/4 cup chopped mint

1/4 cup chopepd flat-leaf parsley

1 tablespoon honey

2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil

3 tablespoons lemon juice

1 teaspoon Dijon mustard

1/2 teaspoon red pepper flakes

1/4 teaspoon sea salt

Method

Put all ingredients into a large bowl and toss gently to combine. Serve immediately or chill until ready to serve.

Nutrition

Per serving: 180 calories (50 from fat), 6g total fat, 1g saturated fat, 4g protein, 29g total carbohydrate (4g dietary fiber, 6g sugar), 0mg cholesterol, 170mg sodium

http://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/recipes/505

Brown Rice Salad 2

http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/alton-brown/brown-rice-salad-recipe/index.html

Gardening

Mahoney's Chelmsford

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knitting

Beginning Knitting book

Patterns

Ribby Toque Hat

Lampshade

May 10 Chaton Minet - Free Cat basket Knitting Pattern

The cat basket is finished. The lovely boy in the basket is Miche. Chaton Minet is the name I ended up giving to this cat basket. It is also the title of a famous French Nursery rhyme. I thought the name suited the whimsical spirit of the basket. I really like the chevrons, and the edges which I curled into shape.

Chaton Minet

Materials: Brown Sheep Lamb's Pride Worsted, 2 of each color: M-18 Khaki, M-13 Sun Yellow, M-52 Spruce, M-120 Limeade. Needle: 29" US 13 Finished size after stretching and shaping 17" diameter

Chevron Pattern: R1: *K1 f&b, K9, SL2, K1, P2SSO, K9, K1f&b* Repeat from * to * R2: Purl

Please note that the whole basket is knit in garter stitch using 2 strands of yarn held together. The garter stitch felts thicker, and gives the basket a firm texture.

With Spruce, CO 161 stitches. Join round. Knit 6 rows in garter stitch.

Start chevron pattern above in following order of colors:

• 4 rounds limeade, 4 rounds khaki, 4 rounds sun yellow, 2 rounds spruce* This forms 1 color pattern repeat. Knit a total of 3 color pattern repeats. On the last color pattern repeat replace the last 2 rounds of spruce, with 6 rounds of plain garter stitch with no chevron in Spruce.

Base decreases: Base is knit in Khaki. R1: K2tog, *Knit8, K2TOG* Repeat from * R2: and all even rounds purl R3: Knit R5: Knit R7:*K7 , K2TOG*Repeat R9: Knit R11:Knit R13:*K6, K2TOG*Repeat R15: Knit R17: Knit R19:*K5, K2TOG* Repeat R21:*K4, K2TOG* Repeat R23:*K3, K2TOG* Repeat R25:*K2, K2TOG* Repeat R27:*K1, K2TOG* Repeat R29:*K2TOG* Repeat R29 until 5-7 stitches remain. Gather remaining stitches with a darning needle. Weave in ends.

Put the basket in a zippered pillow case, and throw in wash in hot water with laundry detergent, monitoring the progress. The basket will be crumpled, and somewhat wavy because of the chevron and will need to be shaped, pulled, and tugged on. I find that paying a lot of attention to the shaping really pays off

Kayleen: This Murphy in his kitty pi bed. I used a variety of wool yarn I found at the local thrift shop. The top dark blue almost black is Brown sheep’s Lamb’s pride bulky. You will notice the fluted look of the bed. I decided the original pattern was not going to be big enough for my cats, so after getting to 144 stitches and stitching about five rounds I increased once again for a total of 288 stitches. Then I stitched 25 rounds for a total of thirty. I did the first decrease round, knit ten, knit 2 together. Then I panicked realizing I was not going to get it back into the kitty cup shape. So I knit another round then decreased back to 132 stitches and finished the pattern from there as written. After fulling it twice I got the resulting shape. ?ref=sr_gallery_28&sref=&ga_search_submit=&ga_search_query=lampshades&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_ship_to=US&ga_page=18&ga_search_type=handmade&ga_facet=handmade Knitted Lampshade]

Tim-Cable Cardigan largest size chest 42" Tim 47" finished chest 49.5" Tim 54" arm length 52cm Tim 64 cm body length 70cm Tim 79cm materials #17 (137yd) Tim ? recommended yarn PINGOUIN Grege needle 3 and 6, cable needle and 5 buttons 50g/sk DK double 8 ply 30%wool, 26%alpaca, 18%silk, 18%nylon Pattern 27st and 28rows to 10cm work sample on 40st

Yarn Sources

Hub Mills Factory Store is located in Lowell's Historic Mill District.

In addition to Classic Elite's discontinued and closeout yarns available online, we carry a wide range of other wonderful yarns in our store. We also have a large selection of patterns, books, needles and other knitting supplies.

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Hub Mills Factory Store

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& Friday 9:30 - 4:30

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Sunday - Monday Closed 122 Western Avenue Lowell, MA 01851-1434 t) 1-978-937-0320 f) 1-978-452-3085 yarn@hubmillsstore.com

Hub Mills Factory Store 122 Western Avenue Lowell, MA 01851 yarn@hubmillsstore.com