My neighbor & walking friend, Ann, who’s a pediatrician, had a gathering at her house last night for people from the Wisconsin Environmental Health Network; mostly doctors & their families. She wanted me to make a couple of big bowls of salads, and some bars for dessert. Based on what I got in my CSA […]
Yesterday morning when I was going through my morning routine in the basement, feeding the cats, scooping litter, dumping the dehumidifier, I noticed water seeping under the partition between the laundry room half of the basement and the furnace room half. A few weeks ago, I had said that probably the next thing to break […]
Wasn’t much for blogging, though I certainly did cook and eat. On Wednesday, I did a small private dinner – that’s what the tomato tarts were for. It was a nice group. A woman I know through work organized it – she works with instructional technology on campus. It was her and her girlfriend, and […]
Last night Mark & I had the “washer’s unbalanced” argument again. When I hear it thudding in the basement, I always run down and rearrange the clothes in the washer tub to get it spinning straight again, but he contends that it should be left alone, and will right itself. “If it’s really outta whack, […]
I made this salad on 4th of July – it’s from Plenty, the cookbook from London’s trendiest deli, Ottolenghi. Grilled zucchini, basil leaves, toasted hazelnuts, shaves of Parmesan, olive oil. It was really good freshly made, but I took the leftovers for lunch and the basil tasted like soap – I just closed up the […]
Went for a walk this morning and tried to document the heat wave. I followed the bike path to the cemetery and came back through the neighborhood. Things were pretty deserted – most folks staying inside, sealed up in air conditioning – but there were people out on the bike path trying – like me […]
I saw a newspaper headline today that said that the mid-week 4th of July holiday is confusing would-be vacationers & tourists – it’s too hard to make the Wednesday 4th add into a 3- or 4-day weekend, and nobody wants to burn the extra days off work, or figure out when to travel, when to […]
Big Saturday breakfast – Ricotta with strawberries & strawberry jam; Alterra scone & grapes; pickled beets & egg
Shots from our day of tourist-ing in L.A. – we toured Warner Brothers studio, and saw cars – like 2 batmobiles, and the caddy from Driving Miss Daisy, fake food & real appliances, stuff from the Friends set, the woodshop, chandeliers, a generic building that can be Merlotte’s or a bunch of other places, the […]