One of my Urban Daddy emails (I think I signed up for the service to get entered into some kind of contest … so I get emails about happenings in NYC and Chicago) recommended this iPhone app, SwankoLab. I decided to give it a try. I haven’t done much of anything in a darkroom, myself, […]
Nice post from Dorrie Greenspan the other day about saving the ends of mustard jars to go into vinaigrette. I do that too, rinse out the mustard jar with the vinegar to go into the dressing. Ends of mustards also go into baked beans and the dressing for my brother’s roasted potato salad, which it’s […]
So I wasn’t getting any reserves for the brunch the morning after prom, and then finally at the last second, I got one group of 8, and another of 4 adults & two kids – so a good, right-size crowd. Not so big that I had to panic getting everything ready in the slight disarray […]
On Friday, School Woods hosted a prom, created by Ginger Lukas, a.k.a. prom girl. I made some snacks for the event, chocolate dipped strawberries again, rice krispie treats, punch, veggies & dip, punch with an ice ring with hunks of fruit in it. And I went to Costco for a mega-bag of candy, 5.75 lb. […]
I get tweets from Heidi Swanson when she posts a new recipe at 101 Cookbooks. I got this one Tuesday evening while I was at the Willy Street Co-op for a Board of Director’s meeting, so I could easily pick up a box of tofu – and I had some cold cooked asparagus, and a […]
We had a couple of days of unseasonably hot weather – almost 80° in April – and I thought all the blooming things would pop out and die fast – like in Hunter’s lyric for Eyes of the World – “the seeds that were silent all burst into bloom and decay”- (and whaddya know, the […]
While my brother was watching bicycle-related movies out in Portland, even one that he and his wife & daughter made, we were busy watching indie films here at the Wisconsin Film Fest. We started with Art of the Steal, about the Barnes Collection. It was a well-made, trying hard to be fair documentary, but its […]
I used the Grandma’s Banana Cake recipe from Classic Home Desserts, by the late Richard Sax, one of my fave cook books. It’s supposed to be baked in a tube pan, so I should have known to really UNDER-fill the muffin cups – because it’s a cake batter that really needs the support of the […]
So my edible book contest cake didn’t win anything. There was a critic’s choice – our critic was Raphael Kadushin – and two runners up, plus people’s choice awards in four categories. Come to think of it, nothing I voted for won anything, either. My cake was just a cake, albeit with stuff on top. […]
I got a Mario Batali Chianti Red Panini Press on sale from Sur la Table. It’s been sitting on the sideboard, because I don’t have any place to store it, but I finally tried it out Sunday night – it makes a damn good sandwich. I had a couple of rye cocktail breads with Jarlsberg, […]