Like I said, I got a huge bunch of spinach in my last CSA box, and mushrooms, that Toni doesn’t like, and more asparagus. So I decided to make creamed spinach. But I just did it really simply, almost Deborah Madison Vegetable Literacy method. No roux, or onions, or anything like that. She says to […]
I made asparagus pizza for dinner tonight, and I liked it just as much as the first time. I put the pics on my Tumblr. But this one’s the best: I also got my first CSA box of 2014. I went right after work to pick it up with my bike, and I had my […]
I’m trying to have a four-day weekend. After I left off Friday, I biked over to E. Wash and hung the blinds. I’m kind of glad, as out of shape as I have been feeling, with that new spare tire around my waist (an extra 5-6 pounds, that’s a lot for my 5′ barely 3″ […]
Got home from work pretty hungry and had what seemed like a perfectly reasonable snack – a toasted slice from the loaf of long rise white I made a few days ago, with a little blue cheese on one end and a little goat cheese on the other, with a few sun-dried tomatoes. I […]
I hung new blinds in the kitchen today, replacing the 13-year-old ones that were there. I still need to go over and do E. Wash. If I was really a landlord, I guess I would’ve taken the old ones over there, instead of buying all new. But the old ones were really dirty and faded, […]
Breaking with a long time tradition, this year for Mother’s Day I did a High Tea, instead of brunch. In 2008, not sure which kids were around, but I made brunch. John & Al were in Milwaukee then, so maybe they both came back. In 2009, John graduated college, and I took my waffle […]
I’m in Sheboygan for the state public library conference, half-listening to a panel of earnest librarians discussing the Sheboygan Children’s Book Festival. Later today I am on another panel of earnest librarians, discussing non-fiction books. I am doing food writing. With no technology – we’re going to be talking and holding up books. OK. I […]
Last summer I bought a big hunk of flat iron steak from Fountain Prairie. I trimmed it up, and froze it in 1-pound hunks. I used some of it to make a steak and Asian noodle dish, from Fine Cooking. I used another piece to make steak tacos. That were good, but I thought the […]
First I went to a meeting that evidently had two agendas – the one that I was working from, that said we were meeting from 9:00 to 10:30, and another one that said 9:00 to 11:00. I was so confused when the meeting ended at 10:50 and everyone said we were early. I had to […]