Last night I cooked from Rick Bayless's Mexican Everyday; Pork Adobo with a Guajillo/Tomatillo salsa. Whole Foods had no pork loin, so we butterflied some boneless chops; grilled sweet potatoes with it, painting them with the adobo. A nice Argentine Malbec made a nasty complement.
I was always curious what adobo was make from; I won't give away Rick's recipe but it was easy to make and very tasty. I used ground New Mexico chili... Tonight we'll use left left over pork in tacos with some feta from last week; I've got to run out and get some greens to saute to serve with.
On the fiber front, I finally got back to the towels I'm making. I warped up the loom with 8/2 cotton, about 19 inches in the loom (for an 18 inch towel) at 20 EPI, I'm trying for even weave, but regardless of what I do I can't get down below 13-14.
Due to the dual heddles, I'm getting some stripes; 3 of the threads are closer and the clumps of 3 are divided by single threads. I think this must be normal. It looks like that I wouldn't be able to get any finer on the clumps of three and I think that's what's keeping me at 13 picks per inch.
I suppose I could beat it down with a fork to see if I could get finer.... But I'm going to do one towel at 13-14 picks per inch then cut it off and wash it and see what I think. I might shorten them to napkin length, since I'll lose some warp by tieing back on...
