Food and Crafts for All Occasions

New Pottery, Pinch Pot Technique

Also known as thumb pot, pinch pot is one of the oldest pottery technique on earth. All you need is a ball of clay and your hands. You start with making a deep hole in the center of the ball with your finger and then pinch the walls up going in a spiral motion to make sure their thickness is uniform from bottom to top.

This time I made several bowls and cups. After my pots were close to leather-hard stage, I carved their exteriors with a ribbon tool and attached bottom rings, handles to cups and gravy boats, and legs to salsa bowls.

Here are some them.

A tea cup:

 

Lamb Tartare

Continuing with a steak tartare theme, if you didn’t get enough of it yet (and I never do), here is another one for you. Mediterranean style this time, which means lamb instead of beef, lots of warm spices, and toasted pita for serving it on.

Steak Tartare wit Asian Flair

I haven’t been blogging for a while again. Somehow, with years I’ve become more of a doer than a talker, and every time I feel I need to sit down and write to my blog I find another hands-on project to do. So today, after at least a month of procrastination I finally force myself to catch up on my blogging.