On Saturday of Memorial Day Weekend, we grilled. John got ahold of my $250 fixed lens, and stuck it on his $3000 Canon digital camera body, and documented the process. View full album> Memorial Day Weekend I made old favorites but with a few differences. Like the honey baked beans, that I usually make […]
…. a day in May? Last post I was kvetching about it being too hot here in WI; it was in the 90s and I ran the aircon for two days, and it just seemed too early in the summer. I mean, it’s not even officially summer yet, not as measured astronomically, by the solstice, […]
My mom used to say that the heat of summer made her exhausted. I think that’s how I’m feeling today. Except it’s been going on for longer than just today. I’m not feeling too creative, and I think the posts show it. My stuff to cook list is not all that deep right now – […]
We had our first 90-degree day of the summer today. I made brunch for a big crowd – 21 full size humans plus 8 or 9 little kids ranging in age from about 2 weeks to 10 years. It was one of my picture-less ones, but a nice menu: Jazzed up potatoes – Mexican fried […]
I’ve been posting recipes as WordPress pages, and the problem is it seems like I am not posting, since they don’t show up right away on the main part of the blog. There’s probably something in the settings to make them show up, but I haven’t figured it out yet. But I’ve been doing stuff, […]
Yesterday I had to come home from work a little early, to meet the furnace guy. I decided to indulge in a little nostalgia, and use up some of the excess mini-marshmallows and rice krispies leftover from prom night to make chocolate-topped, peanut butter flavored, rice krispie treats. I used to make them a lot […]
This is an experiment with the Portfolio Slideshow plugin, using rhubarb muffins photographed almost exactly 2 years ago. And speaking of rhubarb … This was a pretty good batch of muffins – I felt I had perfected my rhubarb muffin recipe. I have good luck with rhubarb & cake, and rhubarb and crumble – like […]
I’ve been biking to work and going past a lot of bloomy stuff. This tree is by the veterinary school, by one of my favorite bike path sections, where you go past a couple of greenhouses, then there’s this field that’s behind the large animal veterinary building. There are usually a lot of architectural scraps […]
On Saturday, I put on a cupcake decorating 8-year old’s birthday party, with eight little girls. And me and one nanny and the birthday girl’s mom & dad. It was a lot of fun. I made a double batch of yellow cupcakes – it was the batter that ate New York – it should have […]