Today I put the yellow eye beans in a casserole with corn salsa and chicken and corn tortillas and cheese. Tomorrow I am going to cook them with kale and olive oil and garlic. I think that’s sleek (kale with black-eyed peas and bulghur), that we used to eat at Mideastern restaurants in Pittsburgh. […]
I’m trying to remember what I ate for dinner my single girl nights this week. I know I was trying to just use what there was in my almost-empty fridge. Tuesday was the “Make-Hers“; Wednesday I think I had a big lunch – egg salad, a bagel, and then just some salad for dinner, with […]
I took Friday off because I had had two days in the prior week when I worked until 9:00 PM (even though I did work at home on Monday). On Wednesday I had to chair a pretty important meeting. On Thursday morning, I hoped to finish all the emails I had to send to place […]
Data Flow Diagrams. I am taking a systems analysis and design class, in order to help me develop a new course for the Library School, to be offered for the first time in spring 2014, “Designing Information Systems”. The unit we are on now is data flow diagrams. In theory, I really like the idea […]
A few years ago, I discovered the pleasures of a salon leg wax. You go into a private room, and they spread nice-smelling warm wax on your legs, press on strips of cloth-like paper, and yank those off, along with your leg hairs. It’s kind of expensive, but my legs are not very hairy, so […]
Overflowed mightily, as you can tell from the crusty pan, and the kitchen filled up with billows of smoke. Good crust, with a slightly higher ratio of vegetable shortening to butter than I usually use, so a little flakier than the high butter content crusts. I used my regular recipe, and I had a little […]
My tart tins from the trash heap one more time – it took soaking overnight, and scrubbing with a toothbrush to clean off the results of the quiches that leaked. Last night I made a buffet light dinner/heavy apps for a group that I’ve cooked for before. They’re all Hospice Care workers, and they’re a […]
One of “those” mornings …. I made chicken broth the night before and had to strain it, so greasy messy stuff with cats nosing in for droppings. While wiping off the stovetop I knocked over my little espresso pot, double disaster – not only did it send a flood of coffee down the hard to […]
Victoria sponge with pastry cream and berries and cherries. I like the Victoria sponge recipe from Michael Smith’s The Afternoon Tea Book. The WorldCat record has no cover image, so I linked the title to Google Book – but there’s no handy recipe preview, and I have also used this Saveur recipe, which is available […]