There's Beauty in the Bellow

First, in the crafting department: some valentines. The heart folds into an envelope. And then the mask I made for the school's masquerade ball: For my culinary escapades: Roast turkey. There are no vegetables left in the bottom because I ate them. Onions roasted with turkey, oh . . . . From that turkey came this soup. Egg baked in a corn tortilla. It looks rather like a cabbage (which is after all, a flower). Isn't it pretty? Cranberries cooked with merlot, sugar, and pinch of salt. Soooooo good! Between a chutney and a jam, and good on everything. The cranberries had enough pectin of their own: the texture turned out much better than I thought it would. On oatmeal. On toasted tortillas. I also thinly sliced a sweet potato and baked the slices. The cranberries were an agreeable condiment. My beautiful asparagus! With rice pelof. I also made a red wine sauce which you can't see. It turned out a little too thin (it was actually intended to go over fish) and the rice abso