Last night I did another installment of the dinners on Wisconsin, where U of WI alums cook dinner for students. I had a nice crowd this time, not ALL girls – lively kids. I made them a combo of leftovers and fancy desserts; the main course was chilaqiles made from the last of the butternut […]
To coincide with my baby brother’s 54th birthday, I cooked a brunch yesterday. There was a good crowd, 20 people, including a three-generations group celebrating mom/grandma’s birthday. I’d love to stick around, but gotta go fold all the napkins, before they get too wrinkled lying in the bottom of the dryer.
Besides seeing Robyn Hitchcock & Joe Boyd, and going to the spring flower show, we did some other stuff. We ate. Friday night we had a pre-theater supper at Trattoria No. 10 – a reliable old fave. I had the squash ravioli – 4 large ones, and the nice touch was shreds of zucchini and […]
Saturday night in Chicago we went and got an education on the history of folk rock, from Robyn Hitchcock and Joe Boyd.The show was about two hours, Joe reading from his book, and Robyn singing tunes selected to illustrate historical points – ended up being 8 songs in all – the ones we heard are […]
Mark’s in the hotel bathroom shaving off his mustache – he says it’s time. He’ll be 60 in October. I’m listening to car talk on WBEZ, while writing. We came in yesterday on the train. It was a bit of a hike and lugging suitcases on the crowded CTA bus to get to the hotel […]
I signed up for instgr.am – so I can post iPhone pictures online easier. The pictures come out of the iPhone 4 pretty big, tall and skinny like the iPhone – I just looked at one that was 2 MB, 2592 px × 1936 px, and sideways – too big to post on Word Press. […]
In 2009, I made John a salted caramel chocolate tart for his birthday. I think it was the cover recipe in Saveur that month. It was good, but I got the caramel just a little too dark, and I never made another. Today, just a few days away from John’s birthday 2011, I was browsing […]
Here I am at work on the first day of spring break. I have a stack of applications to read, next year’s class of library school students, plus I have an assignment handed in in one of my online classes – applying subject headings to a record (description of an information resource) that the students […]
Andy Kraushaar’s panorama My iPhone picture of one of the tractor drivers taking his own iPhone pictures – video of the crowd John’s online polaroids of the crowd