Was lunch at the River Cafe. Like I said, it was awfully hard getting up Tuesday, and by the time we were really moving, it was time to tube over to Hammersmith Underground Station, and try to find the Thames River Walk, to our 2:00 reservation. We got seated and it really is as lovely […]
We arrived at Heathrow at about 7:30 a.m. Monday, March 29. We had to shuffle through the passport check, then got our bags, took the train to Paddington, and then a taxi to our apartment in Camden. We got settled then went to the close-by Waitrose and bought some food – cheese, pears, buns, yogurt, […]
Grey & rainy for our 2 hour layover in Detroit. I’m on 1st shift watching bags while Mark & Ethan cruise around. I get to go next. I want a beer and the Sunday NYT – I left my paid-for copy on the kitchen counter instead of getting it into my bag to bring along. […]
When I was an art history student, we were taught that you have to judge the art on its own and not try to create a facile explanation based on what you know about the artist’s life – or your own. So I was amused by the serious question asked, around minute 2:21, in this […]
It’s not like I didn’t cook. On Thursday I made potato bread, with leftover mashed potatoes that were pretty butter-y, and made with half & half, 2 eggs and a cup of buttermilk, and white flour. I had a brunch scheduled for Sunday, that ultimately canceled for not enough eaters, but I wanted to have […]
Although at this time of day, on John’s actual birth day, I wasn’t even in hard labor – he didn’t arrive until about 11:20 p.m. on March 18, 1987. John went down to Iowa City last night to see Every Time I Die and I haven’t heard from him yet, though I did text him […]
Lyrics by Robyn Hitchcock, music by Johnny Marr – performed by RH in Chicago, March 5, at Schuba’s. Also, with the full band, from Robyn’s web site, and a supporting cast of thousands, or at least dozens – love the steamer.
Like I said, I have not been inventing recipes recently, but I have been tweaking existing. Today for breakfast I made giant buckwheat fig-filled scones, based on two from 101 Cookbooks. The giant scones are filled with a fig jam, that starts with the ingenious step of making a caramelized sugar syrup then adding wine […]
Reading this article by Marcelle Richards of Gastroapocalypse Test Kitchen, on working up a recipe for parsnip-pink-peppercorn cake, inspired by carrot cake, made me realize that I haven’t been working on recipes much recently. I’ve been making little tweaks, but not putting a couple of patterns together to come up with something new. Maybe the […]
So it’s that really yucky part of the spring when it’s cold and damp and the snow is melting to reveal mud and trash. Last night I had a cheese sandwich for dinner – a sub, made with whole wheat sub bun bread from the sub shop up the street, sliced Tillamook cheddar from Costco, […]