Kohlrabi

My girlfriend S gave me these Kohlrabi vegetables the other day. I had never made these before. Apparently you can eat them raw in salads. I ended up roasting mine. They have a 'radish' kind of taste. They may be better in soups or stews or maybe even stir-fried. Still, it's a great vegetable. Do you know any good ways to prepare Kohlrabi?  Or have you ever heard of this vegetable?

Kohlrabi

Sliced Kohlrabi

Creative Tuesdays - September

Creative Tuesdays' current theme is 'September'. I decided to do something with the harvest moon which will occur on September 22, 2013 this year.  It's done in acrylic (6" x 6") on cardstock.

Thanks to MMm for hosting!

I was inspired by this beautiful old painting I saw on one of Adam's posts at Neko Random.

Fat Free Creamer and a Movie

So I bought this small carton of 'fat free creamer' as I couldn't resist trying it. Well, I read 'fat free cream'. Anyway, save your money, I wouldn't buy it again. It's better to go with the real thing, I buy 'half and half' or 10% milk fat.

In other news, we all went to see the movie 'Lee Daniel's The Butler'. I had been at the gym watching 'The View' and Oprah came on with some of her cast members and they did a great job selling the movie, I felt it would be a good one to see. It's a powerful film and I see lots of Oscar nominations here.   There are a lot of 'big name' actors in this movie.  It's serious but with lots of humourous moments. At some points I was moved to tears.  The audience clapped at the end.

Sunday Sketches - The Dress

Happy Birthday Alexandra!!! Thanks for always hosting!

I'm showing a couple of ATCs this week in acrylic. They were inspired by a lady I saw in the grocery store recently. I wish I could've taken a photo of her dress instead of trying to re-create these versions from memory here! I also showed the lower dress at Paint Party Friday.  The one on the easel is new for Sunday Sketches.  Happy Sunday!

Linking to Sunday Sketches.

Once a Pun a Time

These are hilarious, enjoy!

Puns For Educated Minds


1. The fattest knight at King Arthur's round table was Sir Cumference. He
acquired his size from too much pi.

2. I thought I saw an eye-doctor on an Alaskan island, but it turned out to
be an optical Aleutian .

3. She was only a whisky-maker, but he loved her still.

4. A rubber-band pistol was confiscated from an algebra class, because it
was a weapon of math disruption.

5. No matter how much you push the envelope, it'll still be stationery.

6. A dog gave birth to puppies near the road and was cited for littering.

7. A grenade thrown into a kitchen in France would result in Linoleum
Blownapart.

8. Two silk worms had a race. They ended up in a tie.

9. A hole has been found in the nudist-camp wall. The police are looking
into it.

10. Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.

11. Atheism is a non-prophet organization.

12. Two hats were hanging on a hat rack in the hallway. One hat said to the
other: 'You stay here; I'll go on a head.'

13. I wondered why the baseball kept getting bigger. Then it hit me.

14. A sign on the lawn at a drug rehab center said: 'Keep off the Grass.'

15. The midget fortune-teller who escaped from prison was a small medium at
large.

16. The soldier who survived mustard gas and pepper spray is now a seasoned
veteran.

17. A backward poet writes inverse.

18. In a democracy it's your vote that counts. In feudalism it's your
count that votes.

19. When cannibals ate a missionary, they got a taste of religion.

20. If you jumped off the bridge in Paris , you'd be in Seine .

21. A vulture carrying two dead raccoons boards an airplane. The stewardess
looks at him and says, 'I'm sorry, sir, only one carrion allowed per
passenger.'

22. Two fish swim into a concrete wall. One turns to the other and says,
'Dam!'


23. Two Eskimos sitting in a kayak were chilly, so they lit a fire in the
craft. Unsurprisingly it sank, proving once again that you can't have your
kayak and heat it too.

24. Two hydrogen atoms meet. One says, 'I've lost my electron.' The other
says, 'Are you sure?' The first replies, 'Yes, I'm positive.'

25. Did you hear about the Buddhist who refused Novocain during a
root-canal? His goal: transcend dental medication.

26. There was the person who sent ten puns to friends, with the hope that at
least one of the puns would make them laugh. No pun in ten did.

Paint Party Friday - The Dress

This is an ATC in acrylic entitled 'The Dress'. It was inspired by an outfit I saw a lady wearing at the grocery store the other day. I couldn't take a photo, but tried my best to capture it here. Hers may have hung more loosely and the colours may have been slightly different, but she looked so comfortable and stylish at the same time.

Linking to Paint Party Friday, thanks as always to Eva and Kristin for hosting.

A Favourite Drink

McDonald's Iced Coffees are a popular drink around here this summer. They've priced a medium sized iced coffee at $1 all summer, what's not to love?