Brunch for 20, people who work at, or used to work at, Madison’s Community Pharmacy. The brunch was a retirement party for one of them, who is working on a history of the pharmacy – so the stories I got to overhear were great. Recollections of old blue laws from the 1970s in WI, when […]
Today I took a furlough day, to save money for the great state of WI. I am supposed to take 8 this year; 4 assigned and 4 of my own choosing. Today makes 6, and we have two assigned days coming up in April & May, so I’m done. I have a brunch on Sunday, […]
Tired of the Olympics, tired of being too busy at work, tired of being tired. Not tired of winter yet – I still like the snow. We had few nights this week where we got an inch plus, and last night just a dust – made it pretty in the morning. My brother wrote a […]
Tonight I made some little turkey meatballs that had almost as much matzoh meal in them as turkey, and cooked them in soup. The soup was good, but the meatballs had the most perfect texture, slightly grainy, soft but not too soft, chewey but not too chewey. And I didn’t think they’d be too photogenic, […]
Sunday the vegetarian meet up group met for vegan cupcakes and board games at School Woods. I used a couple of recipes from the Vegan Cupcakes Take Over the World girls, Isa Chandra Moskowitz and Terry Hope Romero. In Veganomicon, they have a caramel apple recipe that I was quite taken with – it has […]
Last night after I finished frosting the vegan cupcakes, I went to a substance-free, family friendly, dance party benefit for Haiti, because one of the organizers is one of my dining club regulars. She’s one of the nicest people you could ever meet, and she has a cute toddler daughter, Charlie. I think Charlie has […]
The sky was lavender when I walked home last night, no joke. Lovely but somehow it feels a little too springlike for February in WI. posted from my iPhone
So here’s the hole in the ceiling: So I dunno – there’s still a large contigent lobbying me that I need a whole new one. I’m being pulled in two directions – the carpenter says patch – and it could even be real plaster put on by this cool old school lesbian plasterer I met […]
Or in British, oh bugger. Or maybe bugger, bugger, bugger. The sink in the upstairs bathroom at the dining club has been secretly leaking into the floor and ceiling. The plumber – and Mark who is ever the optimist, so really scarey to hear it from him – say I am going to need a […]
Deborah Madison just did a new book, What We Eat When We Eat Alone. The overall conclusion of the book is that when we eat alone, we don’t have to follow the rules – we can eat what and where we want – standing over the sink, in bed, in front of TV, and we […]