Last night for supper I made a classic meal – hot dogs and mac & cheese – with the slightly unusual additional sidedish of Italian-style broccoli – blanched and then sauteed in olive oil with lots of garlic and red pepper flakes. Well, and the dogs were “special” too – bacon dogs from 4505 meats. […]
While we were sitting eating this lasagna – prepared from the recipe on the Barilla no-cook lasagna noodles box – we were trying to remember what film fest movies we’d seen when. I’d written what we’d gone to in 2010 and 2009 and 2008 and even 2006, although that year, I just mentioned seeing I […]
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 […]
Before we had all the excitement of the Superbowl, we had all the excitement of the blizzard – about a foot and a half of snow that fell on the night of February 1, with high winds and drifting. It was a Tuesday, and we knew pretty much everything was going to be closed on […]
Monday I think I just came home after work (must’ve, because I was writing about the Packers), but Tuesday I went to yoga. Wednesday we had an outing to Milwaukee to see a photography exhibition, and hear Alec Soth. The show was good, portraits from the Haggerty Museum’s collections, Soth was a good speaker, and […]
I don’t charge for kids under 12, but last Thursday we had ten kids at dinner – and the platters of food were almost licked clean. There was a little dessert leftover, brownies & blondies, and I *think* everyone went home full – at least I hope so. There were 14 adults. I made chicken […]
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 […]
I started Sunday with a walk – on the cold side, and no one was out but me and the ice fishermen. Since we’ve had such dramatic highs and lows in temperature – on New Year’s eve day, it went up to almost 50°, and then got really windy and dropped to like 17° in […]
The other night some friends (Steve & Heike) came over for dinner. I guess it was still a bit of fallout from having the cookie party on blizzard night – they had not made the party. Last year, the year of the broken thumb for cookie season, Heike was my kitchen manager for the party. […]
We just had a Christmas dinner that couldn’t be beat – and the clean up took much less time than either Thanksgiving or the cookie party. We ate pork roast, mashed potatoes & celery root, sweet sour purple cabbage, and roasted green beans. And for dessert, orange flan that I flamed with Grand Marnier, and […]