So many dinners, and meals, and cleaning up – that I’m not taking pictures of – so many walks – that I’m not taking pictures of – so many online meetings – that I do have a few pictures of. Collections of (mostly) old people on zoom. I left off last Saturday when I baked … [Read more…]
I seem to have devolved into a once a week blogger, so I guess I might as well report on my week. Backwards – weekend to weekend. We were going to go to Chicago this weekend but got scared off by the weather predictions of ice storm and crazy wind. It turned out to not … [Read more…]
And it’s still September. Not a very Wisconsinite thing to do, but our exchange student has been complaining of the cold, and upstairs, Mark turned his on already. The thermostat was in sleep mode, set at 62° and it was still 65° in the house, so I had to bump it up to 66° just … [Read more…]
My cooking has been good but not great for the last week or so – The worst was Monday. Dinner was a pretty good idea: Marcella Hazen’s lemon pasta (simple, it’s cream, lemon juice and zest, fettuccine, and Parmesan), salad with the end of a honey-mustard bottled salad dressing and a few shots of Rachael’s … [Read more…]
The first week was characterized by heat, tomatoes, and Rach was here. Wednesday was Rosh Hashanah and I made challah. I got my annual CSA 25-pound box of tomatoes, and made sauce and blanched and diced and froze a lot of them and also made four trays of oven dried tomatoes. Rach and I bought … [Read more…]