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I thought I would have another go at stuffing a match box for this fun group:
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Managed 24 this time thanks to the mustard seed...
I can't tell you how much time I spent on this, & I never really got it the way I wanted. There are tiny sliced mushrooms, pieces of celery, chopped chestnuts, & chopped onion in it. I made the bowl out of Sculpey clay.
(recipe from Meghan with minor modifications)
Vegetarian Stuffing
cornbread
loaf of French bread
1 stick butter
1 onion, diced
4–5 celery stalks (about 2 cups), chopped
4 cups vegetable stock
1/2 cup fresh parsley
1 tablespoon fresh rosemary
2 tablespoons fresh sage
1 tablespoon fresh thyme
salt and pepper to taste
Chop bread into 1/2 to 1 inch cubes and lay on baking sheets to dry out for 24 hours. (It helps if they are slightly stale.) Transfer to a large baking dish (I had to use two separate dishes).
Melt butter in a large pan and cook celery and onions until almost translucent. Add broth to celery and onions and bring to a boil. While it's heating up, chop herbs and then add them once it starts boiling.
Gradually ladle the stock mixture over the bread, tossing as you go. Taste and adjust seasoning as necessary.
Bake for 20–25 minutes in a 350°F oven. You're looking for a golden brown crust to form on the top.
I never have gotten close enough to a bumble bee to really see what it looks like before. I normally run like crazy from them. But since they were drunk from the pollen/nectar, I felt safe!! HA! I didn't realize how big their eyes are! Happy Tuesday, everyone!!
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Our dog, Sidi tears EVERYthing up! Recently when Ken was picking up the latest of her destroyed toys, he called me over to see one little piece of stuffing- I KNOW it was a funny message from Jamie. Ken thought so, too! :)
my first attempt - with thanks to lostartist for leading me to the international championship league of matchbox stuffers ...
We make a loaf of bread with all the spices and stuff we put into the stuffing. After the Thanksgiving dinner we use the bread for turkey sandwiches.
Note: I relocated this from last year to give people ideas about Thanksgiving dinner tomorrow. (Actually after dinner tomorrow). It's time to make the bread now, before the oven is taken up with essential tasks. I should have mentioned that it takes a lot of spices. I use sage and thyme, and I put 1 Tablespoon (not teaspoon) of each into a 1.5 lb loaf. It's not too much, in fact I could put more in, but I didn't have that much on hand.
Next Note I relocated this again to bring it up for a timely reminder.
And Again in 2011 (note that you could also add stuff like chopped celery and sausage, if that's what you put into your stuffing. If you do this in a bread machine, put the large chunks in about 3-5 minutes before the mixing cycle is done. If they go through the whole mixing cycle, typically about 20 minutes, the stuff gets chopped up into tiny chunks and is therefore different from your stuffing. I usually let the machine do the kneading and the first rise, and then it gets punched down and put into a regular bread pan to give it a traditional bread shape).
Pushed forward again in 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2016. Nothing new yet, just a reminder for the Thanksgiving season coming up.
Spanky had some extra energy tonight after dinner. He ran outside with his toy and ripped out the stuffing. Notice the piece hanging from his mouth?
It has become the tradition that I make the stuffing and then stuff the bird. My go to stuffing consists of store-bought breadcrumbs which I mix with sausage, cranberries, onion, celery and my secret spices. Hey, I can't just give away my traditional recipe.
The Multiflora Rose bush beside the garage was loaded with blossoms recently, providing good subject material for testing a Nikon Coolpix P7000 someone loaned me. This bee sat on this blossom for nearly a minute busily transferring pollen from its head to the forelegs, then to the mid legs, and then to the hind legs... and into the pollen baskets. The process happens very quickly and is interesting to watch, if you're lucky enough to have a bee ignore you, remaining absorbed in its work. Taken with a Nikon Coolpix P7000, shooting through a large "common Objective" from an American Optical "Cycloptic" stereo-microscope mounted on a special adapter, with pop-up flash lighting shot through a home-made diffuser. This is the camera set-up used for this image:
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The "Macro" mode of the camera at its closest focus produces a "field width" of 1.5 inches at a lens-to-subject distance of 3/4 inch. You have to use the wide angle end of the zoom range to use the macro setting. The extremely short working distance is difficult to work with, especially with living subjects. It's so short that getting light onto the subject can be a problem. Using the AO objective, in the macro mode you can use the maximum telephoto end of the zoom range, creating a generous 4 inch space between lens and subject. The magnification gets quite a boost too, with the field width dropping to 13/16 inch. Despite the P7000 having image stabilization, I like to use a shutter speed of 1/1000 second. This camera only stops down to f/8, which gives very shallow depth of field at higher magnifications.
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- The Azure Damselfly grows to around just 3.3cm and is very common around most waterbodies or in surrounding grassland and woodland in the UK, although it can be found from Scandinavia to North Africa. They will return to their perch to eat their prey, which in this case was an unlucky fly. Stourhead, Warminster.