Thursday, September 29, 2011
I guess it’s really fall, but somehow I’m not adjusted yet. I still feel like it should be summer. Today it’s dreary and raining – I guess that should convince me. I biked to an 8:00 a.m. meeting on the east side, and then left my bike in a friend’s garage and took the bus […]
Sunday, September 25, 2011
Mark’s birthday morning – we got up about 8:00 and rode the cabin bikes – way too big for both of us – over to the coffee place, Red Cup. Kinda assumed they’d have wifi, but no. So now we’re hanging out in front of the public library using theirs. I tried calling both kids […]
Saturday, September 24, 2011
So far there’s no at&t cell service whatsoever on washington island – thank you AT&T – so we’re at a bar w/ free wifi & a giant black lab sticking his nose in our laps & old guys in the corner playing jazz. I’m still feeling not quite right – I can’t live like Mark […]
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Last Friday I made a luau themed dinner for a group of 22 who were having some kind of luau-tiki-mystery dinner. All I knew was that they needed three courses, and it should be tropically themed. I made shrimp salad in wonton cups for starters, grilled tequila marinated chicken breasts with grilled pineapple (Chicken not […]
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
We’ve always differentiated between being busy – which isn’t neccesarily bad – your days are full, you have lots to do, you’re not bored – and stupid busy – which IS bad. Too much to do, you forget stuff, you miss stuff, you get cranky. And stupid. I have been stupid busy for the last […]
Sunday, September 11, 2011
A few minutes ago I looked at the clock and the time was 9:11 p.m. on Sept 11, 2011. I have been pretty impervious to all the remembrancing going on, but I still indulged in a little what I was doing when. I was driving to Neenah, Wisconsin when the planes hit, heard about it […]
Saturday, September 10, 2011
And this is just the stuff that gets left out on the counter – tomatoes & fruit. We also got two watermelons, potatoes, broccoli, red peppers that are already roasted, two kinds of cheese (tho the cheese is the least seasonal of all), argula and salad greens.
Monday, September 5, 2011
On Saturday I got 5 pounds of Roma tomatoes at the Farmers Market. I divided them into the ones I was going to blanch and skin and freeze – the less-perfect ones with a few more blemishes – and the ones I was going to quarter and slow roast in the oven. For dinner, I […]
Saturday, September 3, 2011
Today I emptied everything – bucket after bucket (washed out quart yogurt containers and cottage cheese tubs) of veggie broth and chicken stock and pesto and pie cherries and corn and rhubarb puree, ziploc bags of blueberries and peaches and cranberries, a few hunks of meat – a pork roast – a bag of shrimp, […]