Or, to put it more politely, the earnest, home cook, social media recipe commenters. Today for brunch I made this corn and tomato pie, by way of Gourmet, by way of Laurie Colwin & James Beard. It’s supposed to look like this: Or this: But mine looked like this: Right – soupy. What a bring […]
Our AFS student Toni stayed a little longer than the rest of this school year’s students, because her family – mom, dad, and little sister – came to pick her up and now they’re traveling in the US for about 2 weeks. Even though Toni is leaving, we are now entering into a period of […]
My spring break week wasn’t much of a break. Monday was my first day back after PLA. Tuesday I had to do a webinar – and it was John’s birthday. Wednesday I had to appear in court for my failure to remove snow ticket. Thursday I had two meetings – both of groups that I […]
Last fall, I decided to shut down the supper club. People are just not signing up, and my renters are interested in renting the whole house, which actually is a two-fold benefit: 1) I’ll be getting a little more money every month in rent, and 2) Getting the house to look more like a single […]
For this year’s pie palooza, I made squash, tomato, onion & Gruyere tarts. Basically my favorite fall squash gratin, in a crust. I was going to make individual size galettes and serve them for the first course if I had served School Woods 7th birthday dinner, instead of cancelling. Either way, I think they’re going […]
With apologies to Dave Edmunds. [and this was only started when it was almost Saturday night; finished on Sunday] I guess, since I haven’t written since Wednesday, and even then was writing about Sunday – we are due for a wrap-up. Wednesday was Mark’s birthday. We took him out for dinner at Pig in a […]
Or maybe it’s as satisfied as pie. I’ve been feeling kind of over-tired and over-worked here at the end of my vacation week. It sure made me a lot happier to bake pie. It doesn’t really matter that the blueberry pie dripped and burned on the bottom of the oven – I can always run […]
July 22nd is my mother’s yahrzeit – this year it’s been 9 years. I lit a candle in the crystal candle holder my mom and I bought at the Art Fair on the Square because we thought it would look good for Opa’s yahrzeit candle (tho in this pic, I’m using one of Oma’s candle-go-round […]
And what did I make of it? Friday it was still ridiculously hot, and we went out to dinner, at Madison’s star chef gastropub, Graze – the place Tory Miller opened so he could serve burgers and pork buns and fried cheese curds – sometimes there’s even poutine on the menu. Yesterday, Saturday, was mostly […]