And whole wheat cimmy buns for Saturday breakfast. Last night, I had an online class meeting for one of my courses, so I just made some egg salad and we had lots of bread – whole wheat baguette that I made, plus a loaf I brought home from a French bakery here in Madison, that […]
And a coconut cake that crumbled, and a green salad with little tomatoes, that Jean brought. That’s what we ate with the neighbors tonight. The lasagna had that pureed tomato sauce, that I make with my home-frozen tomatoes. Tuesday, I made a big batch with the last 4 bags of tomatoes from last summer (after […]
We went to see a musical production of Daddy Long Legs, the one by Jean Webster, the title notes in the library catalog say: An orphaned girl named Judy Abbott and an unknown, unseen benefactor who sends her to college and whom she refers to as “Daddy-Long-Legs” are the two principals in this immensely popular […]
On Friday night I tried to make pasta sauce – bacon, celery, onions, and tomatoes frozen from last summer. And a splash of wine left from the party last week. After I put in the wine, the sauce got a funny smell – like plastic. I think it was the wine – Mark thought it […]
I was worried about this bread when I took it out of the oven – it seemed spongey rather than crusty, and I was afraid, because of the hot weather, that it would be like a sour dough loaf I baked last fall, on a hot day, that came out big and overblown and white. […]
It’s still “unseasonably warm” here is WI – it was 81° today, ad it’s still in the high 60s at almost 10 p.m. In the morning, Rach and I walked, and because I thought my first advising appointment was by Skype, I figured I’d just do it at home. But when I got on and […]
Since the winter dinners at School Woods have not been selling – no winter – and because her fiancé is in town, Rach and I hijacked one of the dates, and threw a cocktail party. There was a really nice crowd, somewheres above 30 people plus a lot of little kids toddling and crawling and […]
It’s not just winter that’s been cancelled here in Wisconsin, evidently spring has been cancelled, as well. We have gone directly from mild snow-less winter to summer heat. We are in the midst what is looking like a 2-week stretch of day time high temps in the 70s and 80s, and only going into the […]
Heidi has this recipe for tapioca pudding sweetened with honey & flavored with rosewater and lemon zest & chopped pistachios on top. It’s in her 2nd book, which I have, rather than her blog, but it’s been shared around. It sounded delicious and exotic and I made it as one of the desserts at the […]
I stayed home on Friday with my cold, and interspersed bouts of working between couch time and cups of tea. I went to Walgreens and got cold medicine, and took two doses but I woke up so dehydrated on Saturday morning that I haven’t taken anymore – seems better to let the cold drain. I […]