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 [...]
Used up the patty pan squash and spinach from my veggie box. This is the type of recipe where you’re supposed to mix Thai curry paste – that you’ve either prepared yourself, or, like I did tonight, spooned out of a jar – with canned coconut milk to make the sauce, then add meat or [...]
Tonight for dinner I made two of the recipes from Heidi Swanson’s new cookbook, Super Natural Every Day. One of them I liked in principle; the other I plain old liked. The one I liked in principle was the Spinach Chop. This is blanched and chopped greens cooked briefly with olive oil and garlic, and [...]
Last Saturday, the asparagus was in at the farmers’ market. I bought two pounds, and I also bought a chicken from Matt Smith. I roasted the chicken in the oven on timer while I went to the protests. A couple days later, I roasted the asparagus, too, and we ate one pound of it as [...]
Last night for supper I made a classic meal – hot dogs and mac & cheese – with the slightly unusual additional sidedish of Italian-style broccoli – blanched and then sauteed in olive oil with lots of garlic and red pepper flakes. Well, and the dogs were “special” too – bacon dogs from 4505 meats. [...]
While we were sitting eating this lasagna – prepared from the recipe on the Barilla no-cook lasagna noodles box – we were trying to remember what film fest movies we’d seen when. I’d written what we’d gone to in 2010 and 2009 and 2008 and even 2006, although that year, I just mentioned seeing I [...]
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 [...]
Before we had all the excitement of the Superbowl, we had all the excitement of the blizzard – about a foot and a half of snow that fell on the night of February 1, with high winds and drifting. It was a Tuesday, and we knew pretty much everything was going to be closed on [...]
Monday I think I just came home after work (must’ve, because I was writing about the Packers), but Tuesday I went to yoga. Wednesday we had an outing to Milwaukee to see a photography exhibition, and hear Alec Soth. The show was good, portraits from the Haggerty Museum’s collections, Soth was a good speaker, and [...]
