Grrr, they’ve taken my captions away. I abandoned my old friend Portfolio Slideshow (and so has word press as far as I can tell) because I couldn’t get the captions to work, and started using Responsive Slider by Supsystic, that I upgraded yesterday, and now its captions don’t work either – or at least, I think … [Read more…]
Last night we went to see Jeremy Denk play Bartok with the CSO, with a guest conductor, Sir Mark Elder. And gosh, the program was all full of nice stuff about Denk; how he got a MacArthur genius grant, and writes for the New Yorker and lots of other publications, and how his blog is … [Read more…]
Wait that’s a song …. But could insert overworked and underpaid, stupid busy, or any number of other clichés. Including spring ahead – the time change everyone hates (well, except Mark – he likes that it stays light later in the day, but I miss the light in the morning) that I am suffering the … [Read more…]
So I just kept hauling stuff out of the freezer, and making it into dinner. Like I said, Friday we had pasta. On Saturday we had pork roast and stuffing. The stuffing had cranberries and apple. I mixed up the usual stuffing stuff, dried bread and celery and onion and chestnuts and fresh sage, and … [Read more…]
We went to Milwaukee to see Bruce Springsteen last night. Way up in nosebleed territory in the basketball arena, along with 20,000 other middle-aged to elderly fans. It was kind of fun, but stadium shows are not really my thing. It’s The River tour – so Bruce & the E-Street band perform the record, and … [Read more…]
I am testing two recipes for Food52, and they both remind me of other recipes of mine. The first one, tested (and eaten) on Saturday night, is Buttermilk and Rye Sticky Toffee Puddings (for two!) Which reminds me of Pumpkin Sticky Pudding, that I made a few times for School Woods dinners, with one notable … [Read more…]
I guess I’m having a normal week, at least in terms of not going back and forth to Chicago all the time. Rach is here, and came in last Thursday, which is unusual; she usually comes from Sunday to Saturday. It was so that she could work on Friday, and then over the weekend, prepare … [Read more…]
Unwritten anyways. I’m doing one of my back and forth weeks, down to Chicago on Tuesday, back to Madison Wednesday morning, and now back to Chicago Friday. The weather’s been back and forth-y, too. It was winter over the weekend, for Valentine’s Day, which was a Sunday. The day before was probably the coldest of … [Read more…]
Last year, it was Deb & Rach Make Soup. This year, I was on my own, and the demo, for CSA Fairshare, was preserving summer produce, and then a few things to do with your riches from the freezer. I made a little slideshow: Garden Expo Slides. My plan was to demo blanching and skinning … [Read more…]
… nor blogging. Monday (and that would be Monday a week ago, by the time this was written) I got home on the late side, and ate the last couple of leafs of spinach, almonds, and dried cranberries from the soup dinner salad, sautéed with some of the leftover farro salad, that I made with … [Read more…]