Feeling so behind and not sure where to start … Looks like I last posted on March 25 – that was the Saturday we got a foot of snow between something like 2:00am and 11:00am, and I went off to work at the early voting during it. We were in this really nice back room … [Read more…]
Friday morning I broke a mirror. Well, maybe – it’s possible it was already broken before I dropped it. It’s an old makeup mirror that used to be able to stand in its blue plastic frame, but the frame’s been gone for a long time, so it’s this approximately 6-inch round mirror with a magnifying … [Read more…]
Like I said, last Saturday I roasted a biiiig chicken for Passover, and I anticipated a bunch of other dishes made with meat from that bird. This has indeed come to pass. We’ve had chicken sandwiches twice. The first time we both had our sandwiches on brioche rolls I bought at Whole Foods, you can … [Read more…]
A pretty good summation of how one, or me anyways, doesn’t really feel that good about spring, when it first arrives, throwing off winter’s covers. Though we do get to celebrate spring holidays, like Passover & Easter, which I mostly do through food. In fact my understanding of the Passover sedar is that it actually … [Read more…]
It’s an often talked about thing that with the Internetz and 159 channels and time shifting and there’s no town square and we don’t all sit down to watch Uncle Walter at the same time on the CBS Evening News (“in an era when network news was central to many people’s lives.” as it says … [Read more…]
Last week, my lost week of the bashed up face, I really didn’t cook too much. On Monday, my face was too sore – I had cereal and ice cream for all my meals. I’d been planning for awhile to make Jane and Michael Stern’s broccoli casserole, that I got out of the Splendid Table‘s … [Read more…]