Drunken Pears

6 pears - peeled with 1/4 inch cut off the bottom
bottle of red wine - preferably a good drinking wine
orange
tablespoon pickling spices
4 cups water
1 cup sugar
2 cinnamon sticks

Pour the bottle of wine minus one glass into a medium stock pot. Add in orange zest, orange juice, pickling spices, water, sugar, and cinnamon sticks. Bring to a boil. Continue boiling for 5 minutes. Reduce heat to medium, place pears in the pot and cover. Cook for approximately one hour while enjoying your glass of wine. Remove pears with a slotted spoon and return the sauce to a boil and cook until thickened, approximately 10 minutes. Strain the sauce into a bowl. To serve, place pear on a plate and drizzle desired amount of sauce over top. Can be served warm or chilled. Enjoy!

Just a quick note for anyone that may be waiting for an email from me or club members that are waiting for October's recipe.... What was supposed to be a quick visit to a friend's home two states over has turned in to a slightly longer stay due to some car troubles. I will be back home again this weekend (1200 bucks poorer, I might add, but at least my car has brakes) and will try to get caught up with everything asap. The past two weeks have been a complete disaster and this has really just been the icing on the cake, but thankfully we at least get to spend some more time with good friends and I get a much needed mini-break. I just wish it hadn't cost so much ;).

If you missed out on the first round of club sign-ups you can join in time for the second shipment here. Self-striping memberships are extremely limited. New sign-ups will not be open again until January 2010.

October's packages shipped this weekend (a few envelopes were dropped off yesterday and today) so they should begin arriving soon! Just a note - November's packages will ship the week before Thanksgiving to hopefully allow for the extra holiday shipping time and we'll be out of town from Dec. 17th - 29th so December's shipment will go out by the middle of the month.

Subscription payments are starting to come in through Paypal for the second month of the club. If you have any questions about your payment, please email jessie@yarntini.net anytime.

Thanks!

Just put a few "last call" skeins in the shop. With free shipping to the US they would be great for affordable, yummy socks and scarves!

omg y'all. We pretty much skipped summer around here. I guess now we're skipping fall :(. I'm sooooo not ready for this...

Oct 16

Rain / Snow

37°

Several skeins of chocolatini stripe merino sock are in the Etsy shop now and might be handy if you're planning on picking up Susan's new book ;)!

October is in full swing... time for yummy fall colorways!

You can find pumpkin spice stripe sport and sock in the shop now!

ETA: the sock weight has sold out but there are 2 more sport and a couple new semi-solid half -skeins in pumpkin. If there's any interest in more sock weight, let me know and I'll try to dye more later this week. Is anyone looking for pure fall? I can probably squeeze in a few of those as well after the October club yarn is done. :)