Well, I started this post yesterday evening, when Mark & I were sitting at the Sundance theater, waiting for Mary Poppins to start. They’re doing a series of classics, besides Mary, Gone with the Wind; 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea; Young Frankenstein, etc. Mark’s ex-wife and her guy were there, too, which was sort embarrassing […]
On Saturday, I went up to Reedsburg to assist Terese Allen with a cooking class, demoing recipes from a couple of her books, for the fermentation fest. I made green tomato mincemeat bars – moist and hard to cut, but really yummy. Too bad it was such a rainy day, but I enjoyed the drive, […]
On Monday when we got back from Ohio, I made a pasta with the cooked broccoli that was sitting in the fridge, a piece of butternut squash that I cubed and roasted, and some of the oven dried tomatoes – the container that had the drier ones that I did not freeze. And the ends […]
The LITA Forum wrapped up on Sunday with a virtual presentation from Sarah Houghton, the librarian in black, titled Library Future: Star Trek or Starbucks? Sarah was really good when she stuck to the Starbucks analogy – what could libraries do better if we did it more like Starbucks? – but towards the end, she […]
On Saturday, I think probably the best conference programs for me were the Ben Schneiderman keynote and a session on public library website redesign, taking a broad view – looking at service redesign, what services the library can provide through its website, not simply improving the look of the site – tho that was a […]
I started writing this sitting in my third presentation session at the 2012 LITA Forum (library conference). But that program was pretty interesting so I stopped. Now, on the other hand, I am watching an earnest librarian showing us her slides in the presenter mode. She did just say “I know this is kind of […]
On the long drive to Ohio, after we passed the giant windfarm, we had breakfast at the Sunrise Diner in West Lafayette IN (at 3:00 p.m.) The #6 – eggs, choice of meat, choice of potatoes, toast, choice of a short stack of pancakes or biscuits & gravy. It was a little food-service-y: deep fried […]
One of “those” mornings …. I made chicken broth the night before and had to strain it, so greasy messy stuff with cats nosing in for droppings. While wiping off the stovetop I knocked over my little espresso pot, double disaster – not only did it send a flood of coffee down the hard to […]
Back in February, I did a Slow Food UW Family Dinner Night (looks like it was the Monday after Super Bowl Sunday). It was fun, and I wanted to do it again, and got scheduled to cook last night, October 1. It was the same routine: shop at the market Saturday, prep on Sunday afternoon, […]
Somehow, a lot of tomatoes of a variety of types came home with us the last couple of days, and I’ve spent a lot of time processing them. On Wednesday, I went to the little farmers market and got some green and pink tomatoes to make a green tomato mincemeat from the Local Food Journal […]