I’ve been wanting to make Heidi’s quesadilla unda style. Good breakfast, but my version but was tad bland. I didn’t have much in the way of the garnishes she uses: chopped herbs (tho I realize I do have some cilantro I could’ve chopped, damnit), fried capers, creme fraiche with lemon zest. But now that I’ve […]
So the news is all bad: earthquakes and melting down nuclear reactors in Japan; tsunamis; unrest and insane dictators all over the middle east; union busting in Wisconsin. On Tuesday I made a chicken & zucchini casserole, from my Pittsburgh community garden cookbook – the Great Tomato Patch cookbook that of course is on WorldCat […]
On Tuesday, a.k.a. day after MLK day, and the first day of classes, I was feeling pretty cold-ed, so I worked from home – especially easy since I am teaching online only this semester. The opportunity to work in pjs and slippers was too good to pass up. I scrounged up breakfast again, this time […]
Yesterday I ate a really good [second] breakfast, by using up odds ends from the fridge. I fried an egg, and spooned the last bit of salsa that Al had left in the Mrs. Renfro jar over it. I toasted an English muffin, and lay a few thin pieces sliced off the end of the […]
I had walked up to Balboa Park using the Google directions, and that sent me past a community college AND a big high school, at about 3:30 in the afternoon. Just as I was starting to hate all teenagers, and thinking that we should really do as the Brits do (the ones that can afford […]
For starters, we walked to Starbucks for coffee. Mark predicted it would be packed and it was, and largely our demographic – mom & dad out for coffee until the kids come back for Christmas. We sat down at a shared table, and when the other person already sitting there raised her head, it was […]
When the weather gets cooler, like it did here last week, I often forget to drink enough. By Thursday, I was pretty miserable, feeling blocked up and bloaty, so as a pre-dinner snack, I ate a couple of prunes, or dried plums as they are labelled now. Then I made a bowl full of Bubbe […]
… just too short. I had 4 days of actual vacation this weekend. I only answered a few work emails. And I even took some pictures of food. I knew it had been awhile because when I opened the images in Photoshop, the most recent on the card before this weekend were dated July 26. […]
Although at this time of day, on John’s actual birth day, I wasn’t even in hard labor – he didn’t arrive until about 11:20 p.m. on March 18, 1987. John went down to Iowa City last night to see Every Time I Die and I haven’t heard from him yet, though I did text him […]