Deb's Lunch … and dinner and breakfast too

Various weeknight cooking – sandwiches & roasted veg on Tuesday, kale salad for a potluck with the neighbors on Wednesday.  And come to think of it, it’s my mother’s 87th birthday, so no wonder I made kale, she would’ve loved it.

Yesterday I got home from work a little early, and decided to do some cooking. Sometimes when you try to do too much …. I tried this Chez Pim pie crust for a cherry pie with the cherries we brought back from our Washington Island trip. And I read “8 oz. butter” as one stick […]

Besides seeing Robyn Hitchcock & Joe Boyd, and going to the spring flower show, we did some other stuff. We ate. Friday night we had a pre-theater supper at Trattoria No. 10 – a reliable old fave. I had the squash ravioli – 4 large ones, and the nice touch was shreds of zucchini and […]

We are on day four of a set of perfect September 11th-type weather in WI – 30s and 40s at night, 70s in the day time, blue sky, clear and sunny. So I walked over to the student Union to get coffee and eat my liverwurst on homemade challah, on the terrace by the lake, […]

So I had this idea to do a series of summer dinners, featuring “the fleeting tastes of summer”. The first one was last night. It was quite pleasant –  a congenial group – one of my “girls” – a young woman who lived at the co-op dorm where I was the head cook from 1981-1986, […]