The past week has been a blur of meetings, job candidates and yet another fucking cold. And oh yea, it’s fucking hot, too – 88° as I write this, on Sunday afternoon. Sitting on the bed next to Mark as we try to decide if we need to take him to urgent care – he [...]
Or at least, thing by thing. For our Dutch exchange student, this was the weekend of the senior prom. For me it was mother’s day, and a brunch at School Woods. On Saturday, I got up and went to the Farmers’ Market on my own for serious shopping – potatoes, cheese, green onions, asparagus, eggs, [...]
Email catch-up at home, going to work late, and I still didn’t pay bills ….
Mark’s out for a walk, and Al is at work, so Joëlle & I had creamed spinach and leftover rice for dinner. The rice was cooked in coconut milk and homemade veggie broth – I made it to go with the Thai vegetable curry a few nights ago. I went to the doc this afternoon [...]
I think it must be rhubarb custard tart. The first time I tried to make one, I left out the sugar in the filling, and it didn’t brown. Tonight I remembered the sugar, but the case leaked, and since I had the flan ring on parchment on a dark colored pan – one I normally use [...]
Today I was so tired I just felt like giving up all day. I’ve been thinking it’s a sinus infection – sore glands in my neck, really crusty eyes in the morning, tired, tired, tired. Today I searched “middle aged women fatigue” in MedlinePlus”, and the first thing was Subacute thyroiditis. It’s every symptom I’ve [...]
Last night I made a free-form rhubarb & strawberry tart, using this method, that I wrote down all the way back in 1999. Except I make the crust with a little added vegetable shortening now to make it a little flakier, about 2 tbs. along with the 2 sticks of butter and 3 cups of [...]
When we go out for Thai, if I don’t get tofu pad thai, I always like the curry that is red curry sauce with a little peanut sauce mixed in, too. At the place we usually go to, it’s #42 on the menu, “Pa-Naeng – curry sauce mixed with peanut sauce, zucchini, green peas, carrot. [...]
We had potatoes for breakfast again today. Then we went to see Rossini’s Cinderella, staged in 1930s Hollywood – so Cinderella and the ugly stepsisters were trying to parts in a movie. Snacked on some party leftovers, and now it’s time for dessert – maybe trifle, or I still really want rhubarb bars and vanilla [...]
The subject line of my sister-in-law’s email inviting us to my brother’s and her 25th wedding anniversary party. Their marriage is the same age as my oldest son – and coincidentally, John was at their place for their 21st anniversary, when he had just turned 21, in the midst of a cross-country trip with three [...]
