This year I guess I’m not celebrating Passover. Just sort of worked out that way. On Monday when I could have been having a first night sedar, I had a few friends over for a glass of wine and crackers & cheese (yes, they could have been matzoh crackers but they weren’t), and then we [...]
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. [...]
This is an experiment with the Portfolio Slideshow plugin, using rhubarb muffins photographed almost exactly 2 years ago. And speaking of rhubarb … This was a pretty good batch of muffins – I felt I had perfected my rhubarb muffin recipe. I have good luck with rhubarb & cake, and rhubarb and crumble – like [...]
I’ve been biking to work and going past a lot of bloomy stuff. This tree is by the veterinary school, by one of my favorite bike path sections, where you go past a couple of greenhouses, then there’s this field that’s behind the large animal veterinary building. There are usually a lot of architectural scraps [...]
We had a couple of days of unseasonably hot weather – almost 80° in April – and I thought all the blooming things would pop out and die fast – like in Hunter’s lyric for Eyes of the World – “the seeds that were silent all burst into bloom and decay”- (and whaddya know, the [...]
