Take today, fer instance: I went out for a walk, and it’s a beautiful sunny day – but that just filled me with dread and grumpiness. Because it’s FUCKING FEBRUARY in Wisconsin and it’s not supposed to be 50°. Or Friday: After reading friends and friends of friends facebook posts about how they’re dealing with … [Read more…]
So I guess if this is a cooking blog I should talk about food at least a little. Friday I met Mark at a retirement party for somebody we both used to work with, although Mark much longer than me. After, with Jane & Jonathan, we went and had dinner at Graft, a new-ish small … [Read more…]
I’d wanted to make this Sam Sifton chicken tetrazzini from the NYT mag ever since it was published last fall, even though it’s not like any tetrazzini I’m familiar with, that usually involve creamy white sauce and crumbs on top. It includes a chili-based sauce with dried red chiles and chicken broth and milk and … [Read more…]
So I guess yesterday was the first ordinary Sunday in January, because New Year’s Day was Sunday this year. I got up and made cherry muffins and a few rhubarb ones. As I suspected, the rhubarb ones aren’t very pretty. Then I went out to the fabric store and got a bunch of pink fleece … [Read more…]
Just so you know – I have still been having a life, I just haven’t managed to write about it much, recently. I blame work – I was totally overloaded this fall semester, 3 classes instead of 2. I finished grading at 2:48 PM on Christmas eve. (Although I think I was grading on Christmas … [Read more…]
We had 20 people at 2 big tables. Here’s the menu with notes: Apps – Goat cheese & ratatouille & baguette – a small container of ratatouille from the freezer, that I put in a baking dish, made a well where I put in a small hunk of a goat cheese log, baked, and poured … [Read more…]
On Friday, I baked a pumpkin pie when I got home from work, so we could eat it after the symphony for a late night dessert. I used the leftover pumpkin I got to take home after the baking thousands of pies for Goodman Community Center, the weekend before the election. On Saturday, I traded … [Read more…]
We left Madison on Friday for a combined family weekend in DC, and trip to Charlotteville VA for a conference for me. Now I’m back at DC’s National Airport for the trip home. I rented a car and drove from Washington down to Charlotteville, and it was a pretty drive through rolling Virginia countryside, with … [Read more…]
When I checked the weather this morning, there were thunderstorm warnings, and there’d been a good downpour and lighting and thunder in the night, too. I went for a walk, and it could of been August. It was about 64°, misty and humid – I was too hot wearing a sweatshirt with 3/4 length sleeves … [Read more…]
Well that was fun, but now I don’t feel like doing anything. On Sunday afternoon, I did a cooking demo at this new community event space, Threshold. I made focaccia with vegetable toppings, half potato-poblano and half delicata squash rings. [portfolio_slideshow pagerpos=disabled size=large] And, this was the Sunday at the end of a week of … [Read more…]