On Saturday, I put pork chops rubbed with rosemary and garlic, and carrots rubbed with chile spice into the oven to roast on timer, and we went to see a pretty hilarious movie, What we do in the shadows. I made a pot of soft polenta, and and covered it and left it on the […]
I was looking for a way to jeuge up my blog for the new year. I’ve been blogging since 2006, on two platforms, blogger and Word Press. My brother decided to stop blogging at a similar juncture, but in fact, he’s back. I started looking at other food blogs that I like, particularly Heidi Swanson’s […]
So, most years I order a big box, 20 pounds or so, of plum tomatoes from my CSA, and then skin and dice and freeze them, or puree them and freeze them, or roast them. Somehow this year, I’ve missed my chance. It kind of goes along with my general recent malaise – I’m too […]
Now is the uneasy time when the house is stuffed with expensive cookie ingredients, and it’s all on me to transform all the butter, sugar, flour, nuts, chocolate, dried fruits, almond paste, and candy into cookies. I made the dough for the jam cookies on Friday night. Saturday afternoon, I got it out to soften […]
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, […]
So my bro says he’s shutting down 327Words, but will continue his regular Thursday/Friday reports about riding with the bike gang …. I guess he’s been mirroring the two blogs for awhile, I just didn’t know because I only looked at the 327 side. He says there’s gonna be a book, but I can’t tell […]
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 […]