We are going to have an AFS student this school year, a 17-year old Italian girl. We picked her up yesterday afternoon. I made some dinner for us – pasta with a fresh tomato sauce, and cucumber sour cream salad. Nothing came out quite the way I wanted it to. The basil in the pasta […]
This is a riff on one of Heidi’s. I had already made it once, pretty much as written, except I cooked the corn, and Heidi doesn’t. I thought about reducing the seeds, but ended up using the recommended amounts (3/4 cup each toasted sunflower seeds & pumpkin seeds). I bought two dozen ears of corn […]
Yesterday it rained all morning, my legs were unshaven, and I had an early morning meeting so I did a bunch of things I rarely do: I wore pants, and I drove. I think I actually accomplished pretty much at work, but it was stuff like trying to edit the departmental website through the content […]
Here’re all the pizza kinds I made last night – tell you more about them later. The fresh tomato was extra thin crusts, topped with Roma tomatoes I bought at the Wednesday farmers market and brought home on my bike, skinned and chopped and marinated with olive oil and 3 cloves of garlic overnight. I […]
Today would be my parents 60th wedding anniversary if either of them was still around. They didn’t make 50 years, even, since my Dad died a couple of months after their 47th anniversary in 1998. I liked it when Clinton was president and my parents were alive because I’d usually hear on the news one […]
Someday this week I want to bake them into a clafouti – the apricots in actual size are hardly bigger than cherries, at least the last couple of bags of big fat cherries from Washington state that I’ve bought. I’ve had trouble finding a clafouti blog post or picture that I think is worth linking […]
I had a nice little day after birthday party last night, but I took no pictures at all. I meant to … Even though I’ve always been a birthday pie kinda girl – as is my entire family, boys and girls and even the married-ins – I wanted cake this year, so I baked myself […]
This morning’s trip to the farmers’ market to collect the veggie box donated by Harmony Valley for my MACSAC class tomorrow turned out to be a bit of an adventure. First I debated whether to go by bike or car – I knew I had the box to pick up, and, even though I knew […]
Last night I got home from work – the first day of my new distance students’ week-long orientation – tired and hungry. It wasn’t quite 6:00 p.m. but I decided to make myself some nice snacks and eat them while watching the new episode of vampires on HBOGo. I fed the cats early, too, so […]