Soup, bread and salad for dinner sounded good to 24 grownups and 5 kids under seven, on a frigid night in late January, last Thursday’s dinner. But did I take a single picture? Nope. I tried to plan things so that people could be as acetic or extravagant in their food choices as they wished […]
…. must have been a busy week, since I have not written since last Friday. We’re into the grinding down part of the winter, we had rain and fog, and now it’s really cold, that cheery sun actually indicating that’s it’s clear enough to be cold. And because of the rain, we lost a lot […]
Last night I lazed around at home and watched the 2-hour premiere of Caprica, the prequel to Battlestar Galactica – I was never a Battlestar fan, so this is all new to me. I was having trouble deciding if I thought it was actually good or not, but it sure was pretty to watch. I […]
Tonight is the second one-dish dinner. The menu is chili mac, vegetarian moussaka, coleslaw, two kinds of corn bread – plain and Marion Cunningham’s custard-filled – and ice cream with butterscotch & chocolate sauce. I was going to make raspberry sauce too, but I got tired, so instead I am taking along a jar of […]
After dinner in Cambridge, we walked around a bit and went past Thoreau’s house, and ended up back at Jane’s for a cup and tea and play with the cats. We went past this display of vintage Marrimekko, that was not really for sale – it’s like a museum exhibit. Looks like Crate & Barrel […]
Our Smithsonian friends know how to travel. We met up at the OCLC bloggers salon. The food at these things is always dependent on the catering at whatever hotel the event’s is at – this year at the Westin waterfront n Boston, there was a properly gooey Brie, and reduced balsamic vinegar, and honey and […]
On Saturday night we took a break from conferencing/touristing and went over to Cambridge to see a Madison ex-pat who’s come home to Boston to live with her aging mom. We started wandering around Harvard Square and ended up at a place called Harvest, that our local guide described as really good food but kind […]
OCLC breakfast – have to get up at 6:00 a.m. Sunday to eat it. posted from my iPhone
Well sort of. Since November, I had the last two butternut squash sitting in the basement, waiting to be cooked. I was going to peel, cube, and roast them for pizza with caramelized onions and goat cheese for a cookie party appetizer, but it seemed just too hard to deal with cubing squash while I […]
Winter Light is the title of an Oregon album that I loved in the winter of 1974-75, my first spent in Wisconsin, where the light seemed to me more beautiful than in my home town, grey and overcast Pittsburgh. In Wisconsin, I told my family, it snows, and then it clears up and gets really […]