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) [...]
We have an AFS student this school year, a 17-year Italian girl. As I’ve alluded to in past posts, she’s a bit like me at 17 – persnickety about food, because she wants to control what she’s putting in her mouth. Like Mark, she’s not a hearty eater to gobble up whatever I cook. (It’s [...]
Yesterday afternoon around 3:00, I realized I had no idea where either of my children were. John was visiting his girlfriend’s parents & friends in Iowa; Al was not yet back from camp and not picking up his phone. I had to drive a basket of clean laundry over to East Wash, and had my [...]
We haven’t grilled yet for the holiday weekend, because we’ve had so few people around – all of our kids are off doing other stuff. John’s girlfriend works for Summerfest, so this is a busy time for them, although this is an historic year – no Summerfest on July 4th, because it’s a Monday. So [...]
John’s clean room – click the picture to watch it on vid
After all the hullabaloo of the wedding (more on that in a minute) we had a nice quiet mother’s day brunch at home, using up some of the wedding leftovers: Broccoli & cheddar quiche – remember I did over buy on broccoli, and the nice 2-lb blocks of Tillamook cheddar that you can get at [...]
This morning as I was coming out of the bathroom after washing up, a spot of soapy water that splashed on the wood floor somehow reminded me of when my mom lived with me, and it was summer, and it was hot, and it was morning but I wasn’t on my way to work. And [...]
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 [...]
The Pittsburgh Steelers are playing the Green Bay Packers in the Superbowl. As something of a non-football-fan, those are my two favorite NFL teams. I like the Steelers because I’m from Pittsburgh, my Dad was a fan, and my mom grew to be a fan in her old age. My brother is a devoted Steelers [...]
I don’t charge for kids under 12, but last Thursday we had ten kids at dinner – and the platters of food were almost licked clean. There was a little dessert leftover, brownies & blondies, and I *think* everyone went home full – at least I hope so. There were 14 adults. I made chicken [...]
