I’m trying to recreate the last week (since I haven’t written since last Tuesday). On Monday, I think I had a pretty normal work day, except that I went to hear one of my colleagues give a talk at the library about a conference she’d been invited to speak at, and didn’t eat anything until […]
Smiting leftovers at every turn. Woke up this morning and started plotting how to use up the sad leftovers in the fridge. I think I ended up with a pretty good plan. The last of the potato gratin and the one leftover baked potato from last night – that was itself the last of the […]
With very few pictures. Monday we had leftover lasagna, with salad & garlic toast on the no knead bread I made Saturday. I tried to go easy on the lasagna and eat a lot of salad, but Rach came back with Trader Joe’s chocolate and I had to have some. She quoted one her grandmas […]
The public schools already long-seeming Christmas break because of the way the holidays fell got extended by two days due to extreme cold. Today, Wednesday, was the kids’ first day back. At work, everyone was saying, “oh I just want to get back to normal”. Somebody on facebook said today was her first alarm […]
I made 2 ducks that I got from Matt Smith, using this Gourmet recipe from 1943. I followed the recipe pretty exactly, except instead of celery in the bottom of the roasting pan, I used celeriac, and I didn’t add the orange zest to the sauce. Which was delicious even without it. Oh, yea, and […]
I woke up at 4:30 this morning and couldn’t go back to sleep. I think it’s sinuses. I am sitting at the computer with a sore throat and tired. I am going to do a bullet list recap of what’s been cooking since last Thursday, and add pictures later. Thursday: CSA demo – mmm the […]
– even faster than usual. The government is shutdown; the debt ceiling is looming – and what’s that going to do to my stock portfolio!??; my #1 son that I sent off to grad school so proudly barely a month ago is not too happy there; they’re predicting huge thunderstorms, unusual for October, and I […]
I lost my keys three times. The last time, I had to dump my green Timbuk2 bag completely out to find them. I guess that’s OK – the bag had gotten kind of junked up since ALA, so a thorough dump out was a good thing. Mark calls it my Hermione bag, but Hermione had […]
So it’s been a not too bad Sunday, schedule wise. The theme has been using up cocktail party leftovers. Started last night, with a pasta using the rest of the bag of Costco asparagus (“responsibly grown” – I hope so – the local’s nowhere near, it’s been so cold, and the organic shipped in […]
Much. John’s been here since Monday night, awaiting his surgery for his new ankle. I can’t quite remember the order of everything – one night I made the kale potato gratin, and somehow we didn’t eat until 8:00. I’m sure it was a little too kale-y, greens-y for Mark. I test-drove my new mandoline, and […]