This year’s Father’s Day baked good is NOT as pretty as last year’s, I’ll just say that right off. This year I was not trying to get the dessert baked in time to go hang out on the Terrace – instead, the cobbler was the main course for breakfast, a lighter version of our normal […]
When my kids were little at daycare there was always PM snack – just a few bites of something, after they waked up from their naps, before their parents came to get them. I often donated boxes of graham crackers for PM snack. I guess that’s what I just ate, PM snack. Two crackers with […]
I started writing this post while sitting in the cheap 2nd run theater waiting for Quartet to begin. The first of two movies this weekend. Last week, Mon – Thurs., was the Teaching Academy Summer Institute – I was a co-chair, and I think it went pretty well if I do say so myself. I […]
Last night we went to a dinner that featured food from some local CSA farms, including mine, Tipi Produce, paired with beer from a local microbrewery – One Barrel – oh, I guess they call themselves a “nanobrewery”. Anyways, the dinner was the first in a series, called Plough & Barrel, that benefit the local […]
I made a “bespoke” brunch this morning – that is, some friends wanted me to cook for their friends, so I worked with them to come up with a menu, and they did the invites. I like doing this kind of pre-ordered event – I get to work with the people to come up with […]
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 […]