Today – the actual holiday – is the greyest, rainiest, yet. And I got up the latest, too. It was too misty and damp for a wimp like me to bike, so I drove to do the grocery shopping, then came home to make a sour cream coffee cake, to use up the tart rhubarb […]
Sunday: Trying to be lazy is not working quite as well today. I got out of bed at 6:45 & came downstairs, thinking I’d start the cimmy buns rising and crash on the couch in the sunroom with the cats. I fed them, but they were restless, clawing the blinds and the rug, and the […]
Saturday: didn’t get out of bed until 8:20. Headed to the farmers market to brave the crowds, hoping the cloudy grey weather, that seems to be always threatening rain, would keep the riffraff down. No such luck. So we just shuffled along, with all the slowpokes. Since I got a CSA box just Thursday, I […]
Brought it home on my bike this afternoon. Asparagus, 2 lb; Rhubarb, 2 lb; Potatoes, 3 lb; Two young lettuces, red leaf and green leaf; Arugula, 1 small bunch; Green garlic, 1 bunch; Radishes, 1 bunch. The problem was, I had some of almost all of those things in the fridge already. Some steamed asparagus […]
All day yesterday I planned to go try out a new (to me) yoga class. Rach’s class has always been at 5:45 Tuesdays and so is this class. I got home from work in time to swap bike for car, and make it to the East side for the class. Part of my planning had […]
It was a weekend of graduations. On Saturday, I made a dinner for my upstairs renter at the supper club house, who got her PhD in a convocation Friday evening. The menu was: light apps – goat cheese, red pepper, olive & pesto torta, with long rise baguettes, and crackers and peppadews; salami; nuts […]
Overflowed mightily, as you can tell from the crusty pan, and the kitchen filled up with billows of smoke. Good crust, with a slightly higher ratio of vegetable shortening to butter than I usually use, so a little flakier than the high butter content crusts. I used my regular recipe, and I had a little […]
I did a brunch at E. Wash, for about 11 adults + 3 little kids + me, Mark & Kanari. The baked goods turned out to be pumpkin-date scones and cherry muffins, and a loaf of long-rise, no-knead bread made special for the occasion, and a loaf of ww bread that I had in the […]
Patti was great – and oh argh I think I’m getting Mark’s cold. She comes on [like some heroin/heroine] like she’s so punk rock – she spits on people and says fuck all the time – but she’s such an old hippie. Peace. I made a set list – Transcend – I wrote, but I […]
We’re spending a [slightly shifted] weekend in Chicago, Saturday to Tuesday. Like last year, we’ve got a visiting student on tow. This time, our excuse for visiting is to see Patti Smith at the Vic tonight. (last year it was spring break) We arrived on Saturday, doing the half car, half train thing on Metra […]