So, most years I order a big box, 20 pounds or so, of plum tomatoes from my CSA, and then skin and dice and freeze them, or puree them and freeze them, or roast them. Somehow this year, I’ve missed my chance. It kind of goes along with my general recent malaise – I’m too […]
Tomorrow is Mark’s 63rd birthday, so I’m going down to Chicago for a fun day. The plan is to meet at the Metra station in Schaumburg – I’ll be driving, he’ll take the train – and then head to Ikea for more apartment furnishing shopping. We’ll get some form of lunch – Maggiano’s in Schaumberg, […]
… but not fried. Yesterday was the 16th annual Food for Thought Festival, and I volunteered at the the main tent, the Thought Tent, for the Chef Showdown. It’s a kind of iron chef thing, with three local chefs trying to come up with the best dish using farmers’ market ingredients, in 25 minutes. I […]
I did two half sick, half work at home days this week – Tuesday and Wednesday. I thought the fluffy cat would be happy that I was home, but she pretty much ignored me. On Tuesday I made oatmeal bread. I pretty much stayed indoors and worked, but took it easy, except for a quick […]
Sometimes I think the worst part about getting old is not being able to sleep. My normal pattern for the last few years, since I’ve been over 55, has been waking up every two or three hours – on a really good night it’s four hours; once in a long while I’ll sleep five hours […]
I spent the weekend, or at least, Saturday night and Sunday in Chicago at Mark’s pied à terre, a one-bedroom in a high rise in the South Loop, that’s an easy L ride to his job just off North Michigan. We took the train and arrived at about 3:00 in the afternoon on Saturday. John […]
I’m going to have to do one of those catch up posts before I forget everything. This is brought on by trying to remember when we went to see The Fault in Our Stars – it was after Toni left July 10 but before August 1 – I think – tho it could’ve been after […]
Sunday was by no means sunny, but at least it wasn’t raining. Instead of breakfast out, we decided to just eat a little something at the cabin and try to catch the 10:00 ferry to Rock Island. We had two bananas that needed to be eaten, anyways. I had mine with peanut butter and Mark […]
Our first night we had sammiches for supper – bread and Nueske’s smoked turkey from the fancy grocery store in Fish Creek, tomatoes & cucumbers from my CSA box, brought from home – then we watched Gosford Park on VHS tape. Thursday morning we weren’t sure of the weather, so we went out seeking coffee […]