Sunday morning was the OCLC update breakfast – but I just grabbed coffee and juice because I had to go to another meeting. I really wanted to see if Jay Jordan said anything about his cancelled retirement – he showed a few slides with DDC numbers for motorcycle gangs and said that was what he […]
We’re back in Disney Land – haven’t been here since 2008. I am doing a crap job of recording meals we’ve had – but to my credit, we haven’t had anything that was truly wonderful – at least in my humble opinion (which is really not so humble). The first night here we drove to […]
Victoria sponge with pastry cream and berries and cherries. I like the Victoria sponge recipe from Michael Smith’s The Afternoon Tea Book. The WorldCat record has no cover image, so I linked the title to Google Book – but there’s no handy recipe preview, and I have also used this Saveur recipe, which is available […]
Last night we hosted our exchange student’s farewell graduation BBQ. It was a really nice party – lots of pleasant young people, and one whole family, our neighbors from up the street, who also have a graduating senior daughter, so there were some grown ups for me & Mark. We asked people to bring something […]
Applesauce and crême caramel are cooking – you can smell the applesauce, but the crême, not so much. Thurston Moore on the iPod. Cat stomping around on the counter, seeking food. The applesauce and custard are for Joëlle’s graduation going away BBQ tomorrow. She wanted applesauce to go with the brats because in Holland that’s […]
I didn’t finish cleaning up till 11:22. Rach put together a group so we had like 20 people. It was an easy menu, everything made in advance – roasted the chicken in the a.m. when it was cool. I only had to turn the stove on to grill the polenta. Which, by the way I […]
We’re in Duluth/Superior for a librarians conference, the Lake Superior Libraries Symposium, held Friday June 1. It was the first one and it was a pretty good library conference. Some good sessions, good keynoter, and ubiquitous wifi because it was held at a Community College. And that also meant that there was a never ending […]
Friday was shopping and baking, Saturday was baking and party, yesterday we lazed around and recovered. I made some pizza crusts and we made a few nice little pizzas – potato & garlic, roasted broccoli and red pepper with goat cheese that Lea’s daughter Liz made, tomato sauce, green olives, diced tomato and lotsa mozzarella, […]
On Saturday morning I laid out all the pies on the counter at the neighbor’s house where I’d been baking for their group shot. Dave & Jen are house- and puppy-sitting, so I got to bake on the Viking range at the neighbor’s. Around 4:00 we crammed everything into the car and headed for the […]