T Stands for Finishing up the Blackberry Ink

  T stands for Tuesday is where we join our hostess' Bleubeard and Elizabeth with a drink related photo in our post, and visit friends to see what we have all been up to. Find link in my sidebar to link to our hostess.

  I waited a couple days, as the recipe suggested, to strain the blackberry ink one more time. This was a good idea, I did not lose much ink and it filtered out a thick "sludge" I am very happy with the results.

I looked at this 1/4 pint canning jar and thought the ink should just fit in this smaller jar-and it did I have allot of these little jars when I would can up allot of wild mushrooms-miss that.

Watercolor inks and homemade inks need to be stored away from light. I had the perfect box for homemade inks and it has a fold over lid-so perfect

I did not save the coffee filter from the original straining as it was quite the mess, but I did save this one-rinsed it out and dried it and added to my mixed media papers stash

I did end up ordering the Ink making book I shared on last week's T post. I hunted all over for a used copy but this is still holding it's higher price. I ended up getting a new copy at amazon as I had enough money credits from last month to pay for the book except for 40 cents. So was thrilled about that.  I could probably keep searching for ink recipes online but this book looked really good. This is when a nearby library would be nice.

It has been very very cold here for most of the week what didn't get shoveled off is now a thick ice so am happy I cleared the steps right away and a narrow path up the hill. It will all melt away come Monday as we will be back to the mid 60's F again for a day or two and perhaps rain as well.

Saturday morning I asked Larry what he wanted for breakfast and he says if you are up to it I would love pancakes. I have a recipe from an old Tassajara Bread book that has a really good recipe for pancakes that I have broken down to one serving. So after I made his I made a batch for me with the gluten free flour-they turned our really good. We have pure maple syrup from a friend in Pennsylvania that gifted us a gallon many years ago-I am down to a little over a quart now. I had fresh blueberries so added those yum  and of course cast iron is the beat for these.

  Here is the recipe-when I was making all of our breads years ago, this was my go to book

  The photos are my gluten free pancakes

 I had been drinking so much of the herbal tea that I needed a pot of decaf coffee this past week. I found this coffee on Vitacost's site very delicious cup of decaf. I prefer a dark roast but this one has a rich flavor

Happy T

Oops I just realized I posted my T post on Saturday instead of Sunday all day today I keep thinking it's Sunday haha