So this is the year I didn’t carve a pumpkin. I bought two at the Wednesday farmers market. This morning I noticed that one of them – the $2.25 one that leaned back a little too much – had a few spots on it. I took it over to the other house for Halloween lunch […]
I joined a virtual cooking club for Dorrie Greenspan’s Around my French Table – French Fridays with Dorrie. The recipe for this week – October 29 – was Marie-Helene’s apple cake. I made two of them for a Saturday morning brunch, for a 30th wedding anniversary. My cakes were a little too thin, because I […]
It’s been all about using up whatever’s in the fridge, since I got back from Pittsburgh on Sunday. On Sunday, I made a pasta with roasted vegetables, and a plum tart – used up that pack of RP’s pumpkin tortellini, and the leftover salad greens from School Woods birthday, and the bulb part of 2 […]
But the marker is just for my dad – my mom’s ashes are interred there, too – and when we brought them, in February of 2005, we ordered a new marker with both names. Somehow, somebody who worked at the cemetery left, somebody screwed up, and it never got done. The good thing about visiting […]
Saturday morning I got up in my hotel in downtown Pittsburgh (formerly the Hilton, now … who knows …), and went and retrieved the car from the self-park, to start my day of uncovering the mysteries of Pittsburgh. I lost my ticket, but the maximum was $20 and I was going to have to pay […]
I skipped the conference lunch and went and got a Primanti Bros. sandwich and ate it outside in market square, with a cup of Starbucks coffee in my own to-go mug. Surely the ultimate Pittsburgh meal. All for about $7. I got cheese, what they call combo – Swiss and Provolone, and there was a […]
So, like I said, I’m at a metadata conference, and the picture below is kind of a metadata conundrum. Metadata is descriptions of information resources – “structured data about data”. The picture is actually a lot of different things, many of which are hard to convey, especially because one of the key interpreters of metadata […]
Like I wrote to my brother last night, it’s so familiar and so strange to be here. The hotel where I’m staying for the conference I must’ve gone past a million times as a kid – it’s one of the first things you see when you drive into downtown Pittsburgh from the airport – but […]
Somehow, the last time I posted was a whole week ago, and I’m not sure why that is. In between then and now, we went to the premier concert of the Madison Symphony Orchestra, and tried out a new-to-Madison restaurant (#21 of a Chicago area chain). Nothing that we ate there – a pasta bolognase, […]
The recipe for this soup (from the Splendid Table’s emailed newsletter) says to top the soup, which already has chiles, tomatoes, chicken broth and the squash in it, with chopped jalapenos, garlic, cilantro, and lime. Their description: A nice twist on the perennial autumn Butternut squash soup, there’s a jockeying of tart, savory, hot and […]