I guess this has just been a crazy week. We had tornadoes and straight line winds on Monday night, power outages on campus with no email or online courseware or main wisc.edu website, even, on Wednesday, and even though we seemed to survive the storm OK here, on Friday morning after a night of what […]
I’ve been wanting to make ramen salad – it seems like an early summer dish. I’ve been tinkering with the recipe – in 2006, I thought you needed to put in the seasoning packs, and use lots of sugar. More recently, I have switched to the Mollie Katzen point of view – when cooking with […]
The slow process of bringing stuff back here from School Woods.
Which I’m writing about on Tuesday, for Pete’s sake – Saturday we went to the farmers market for Cows on the Concourse. Petted cows, watched grilled cheese mass production, bought the first sugarsnap peas of the season. And a bunch of flowers. And two bunches of asparagus to make into shaved asparagus pizza for Heike’s […]
Well, I just survived co-chairing the Teaching Academy Summer Institute – TASI14. This was my 2nd year as co-chair which means I’m done – they have to find someone new to partner with Tom, who I worked with this year, for TASI15. I’m relieved, but as usual with this type of thing, a bit […]
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 […]