After a summer bookended by week long events that I was co-chairing (the teaching academy summer institute and the new distance students’ bootcamp), with 36 studnets in internships in between, I now am trying to get three online courses ready by next Tuesday, September 2. Which means that, since last Wednesday, the last time I […]
So my master plan of last weekend, cooking all the vegetables I could, seems to have worked. Mark and Rach and I had tomato gratin and eggs and fruit on Sunday morning; I did make the Smitten Kitchen one – but I used leftover garlic toast and much less Parmesan, instead of cubing and frying […]
I’m getting three CSA boxes in a row – I get my normal every other from Tipi, August 7th & 21st, and last Thursday I got Rebekah’s from Vermont Valley. So, I’ve been trying to cook it all, and here’s what’s in the fridge: one last slice of corn & tomato pie a small container […]
Mark’s in Chicago so this is one of my single girl nights. I had a big salad for dinner and ate while I watched the Wire – that is, I re-watched selections of the season four finale. The selections where I fell asleep last night. I roasted vegetables for the crazy roasted vegetable sauce. I […]
I made myself a birthday pie to share at an afternoon meeting tomorrow. What birthday? … it’s hidden in the file names.
Or, to put it more politely, the earnest, home cook, social media recipe commenters. Today for brunch I made this corn and tomato pie, by way of Gourmet, by way of Laurie Colwin & James Beard. It’s supposed to look like this: Or this: But mine looked like this: Right – soupy. What a bring […]
At least Mark looks good … man, I hate getting my picture taken.
I have too big of a class for summer school – 35 – and Monday the new distance students in-residence orientation Bootcamp begins. So I haven’t really had any vacation yet, aside for going to the Prairie Home Companion 40th celebration – which was really fun, but I think was kind of more of a […]