I had a nice birthday party for School Woods on Friday. I’ve been serving meals there for 5 years. It was an after work cocktail party, stand-up, nibbles and sips. I made: Crostini with goat cheese, slow-roasted tomato, & pickled onion – homemade baguettes, and I used Heidi’s technique of pouring the oil (or butter) [...]
Today for breakfast I made a “Taste of Madison” breakfast strata – hot, spicey, cheese bread, and two flavors of cheese from the farmers’ market, basil and sweet onion from my CSA box, Usinger’s bacon (actually purchased at Costco, but made in Milwaukee.) We ate it with hot sauce and fruit.
I made a PBJ out a couple slices from the loaf I kept. I took it to work and ate half for breakfast and half for snack.
I’ve been wanting to make Heidi’s quesadilla unda style. Good breakfast, but my version but was tad bland. I didn’t have much in the way of the garnishes she uses: chopped herbs (tho I realize I do have some cilantro I could’ve chopped, damnit), fried capers, creme fraiche with lemon zest. But now that I’ve [...]
So the news is all bad: earthquakes and melting down nuclear reactors in Japan; tsunamis; unrest and insane dictators all over the middle east; union busting in Wisconsin. On Tuesday I made a chicken & zucchini casserole, from my Pittsburgh community garden cookbook – the Great Tomato Patch cookbook that of course is on WorldCat [...]
On Tuesday, a.k.a. day after MLK day, and the first day of classes, I was feeling pretty cold-ed, so I worked from home – especially easy since I am teaching online only this semester. The opportunity to work in pjs and slippers was too good to pass up. I scrounged up breakfast again, this time [...]
Yesterday I ate a really good [second] breakfast, by using up odds ends from the fridge. I fried an egg, and spooned the last bit of salsa that Al had left in the Mrs. Renfro jar over it. I toasted an English muffin, and lay a few thin pieces sliced off the end of the [...]
I had walked up to Balboa Park using the Google directions, and that sent me past a community college AND a big high school, at about 3:30 in the afternoon. Just as I was starting to hate all teenagers, and thinking that we should really do as the Brits do (the ones that can afford [...]
For starters, we walked to Starbucks for coffee. Mark predicted it would be packed and it was, and largely our demographic – mom & dad out for coffee until the kids come back for Christmas. We sat down at a shared table, and when the other person already sitting there raised her head, it was [...]
