The weather Thursday was awful – rainy, icey, dark, a little bit of snow. And of course my timing was off – I planned to go in to work on Thursday, because I had a couple of meetings, and work at home Friday – so I had to go out in it. I started off … [Read more…]
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…]
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…]
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…]
… 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…]
Our first meeting of the day Monday included breakfast. It was a pretty good breakfast, just a little too early in the morning for me. I took a half slice of French toast, a little 100-calorie cup of Yoplait peach yogurt (that was too gloppy and tasted mostly of the color orange rather than peach, … [Read more…]