I’m making the vegetable pie on the cover of the January Bon Apetit, with modifications, chiefly I’m leaving out the eggplant & fennel because those aren’t vegetables I generally have on hand in January. I’ve got roasted tomatoes & red bell pepper from the freezer. I’ve got sweet potato from the indoor farmers market today. [...]
I was kind of a couch potato, again – but maybe a little more productive than Monday – baked the rye bread for the soup dinner Thursday. Which served nicely as my excuse for hanging on the couch, waiting for it to rise, and then bake. I realized in the morning that there was a [...]
One deserves such things, right? I worked until 5:30, then took the bus instead of walking. I didn’t do a yoga DVD. I made myself a nice little dinner – the last of the mushroom soup from last week (tho I only ate a few spoons, seemed to have lost its appeal – the mushroom [...]
So this was one of those nights when everything seemed to get kinda messy and dinner was way late and I got that tension pain in the back of my neck and I tasted lots of stuff while I was cooking, so I wasn’t really hungry when the food was done. Plus I was cooking [...]
The dinner last night was lovely – 10 people, pleasant conversation, pacing good, food just right. I set up a drinks table, with glasses and ice and a few bowls of nuts and olives, and had people come in and make themselves a drink. And pay the man – I had Mark hosting and serving, [...]
I’ve spent the morning cooking for the fall fancy dinner. All is in readiness, save the entrées. Rach has a free yoga class at 12:30, so since I’m all prepped, I’m gonna take a break from cooking and go. I have about 20 minutes while the 2nd batch of bread’s in the oven, so thought [...]
Last night I served another Dinners on Wisconsin Dinner – 7 students, and really a nice bunch. Foodies and knowledgeable about food, but not pretentious about it at all. A few of them go to the slow food student dinners, and mentioned guest chef-ing – I’d love to do that. I think they’re getting Tory [...]
For weeks I’ve had achey glands in my neck and groin. Kinda fatigued. Pain in my right shoulder and upper thigh on the same side – sometimes I limp when I get up from sitting. Yesterday I had a bellyache, and today I’m still a little iffy – but we think that’s because the milk [...]
Trying to create detente between instagram & Tumblr. They’re still not really talking – I can email photos from instagram to Tumblr, but I don’t like the way the post looks as well as I like a simple URL post on Tumblr – see below. But at least I can post, and use all those [...]
Yesterday it rained all morning, my legs were unshaven, and I had an early morning meeting so I did a bunch of things I rarely do: I wore pants, and I drove. I think I actually accomplished pretty much at work, but it was stuff like trying to edit the departmental website through the content [...]
