Quiche and other chat

Yesterday the spinach quiche came to pass, in the cast iron pan, which I like because you start the dish on the stove top, bake it and you've used one pan, also cast iron is great for baking.

Here's the mixture, onions, fresh spinach, eggs and cheese

Coming out of the oven

And served with a handful of cilantro working as a green salad. Three more meals like this, because it heats up nicely.

That fortified me for the Friday knitting group, which was a quiet affair this week, no new work to show you. Conversation ranged over allergies, since mine have started, proving spring is springing, nuts, shellfish, Valentine's day cookies, covid precautions, heating in public buildings, septic systems, wells, flowering trees, absent members, and the Sock Ministry. 

Happy day, good weekend, everyone. 

Two years today since the Russian invasion of Ukraine. We really must pass the aid bill. Aside from the humanitarian urgency, it actually provides employment all over the US, where weapons and ammunition are manufactured. This is a point overlooked by people opposed to helping Ukraine. Aside from their fighting our proxy war against the ambition of P***n.

 Yesterday was a tense day because of close election races and mainstream media as usual confidently quoting fake polls -- five white guys in a diner in Iowa -- to foretell the defeat of democracy.

So I thought I'd improve the day with some leafy greens and made two spinach quiches, crustfree, one for now, one for the freezer. Fresh spinach, green bell pepper, cheddar cheese, milk, salt, pepper, nutmeg.

And I finished the fishy puzzle, which did, as I thought, have a piece missing, but it was still okay to work

And continued studying the genesis of fascism in the US, and knitting and fretting.

And watching Textiles and Tea, with a nice lady, beloved teacher interested in weave patterns who admits she could never do tapestry,  which involves image design. Honest lady who knows her limitations and does weaverly work and magazine editing within them.

Then the election results started to come in.

The noise you heard around 10pm Eastern time,  was the general exhaling and dancing and cheering as,  starting at home

 the NJ legislature held both houses blue

the Bucks County Pennsylvania fascist book-banning Moms for Liberty lost all five school board seats

 Virginia turned the legislature blue 

Beshear was returned as blue governor in red Kentucky

 and yay, thank you Ohio for securing women's reproductive rights in the constitutional amendment on the referendum.

So much for an uneventful off year!   It looks like reports of the death of democracy may have been greatly exaggerated, to quote Mark Twain, and there's enough egg to go around the faces of the mainstream media pundits and reporters who foretold it. 

We haven't done yet, but we're better off than before yesterday. Much more to do, but we're up for it. Today I'm messaging and thanking workers.

And here are the marigolds, still blooming in the house, and get all those new buds on the Christmas or maybe Thanksgiving cactus. They're clearly on the right track!

Happy day, everyone, let's build on yesterday. Not dead yet!