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 […]
I’ve been enjoying the long holiday weekend – I didn’t work at all on the 4th and only a couple of hours each Friday and Saturday and Sunday – tho I am not quite started on Sunday’s hours as yet <grin>. Yesterday I tried out a recipe for a [vegan] roasted tomato sauce. I liked […]
I started writing this post while sitting in the cheap 2nd run theater waiting for Quartet to begin. The first of two movies this weekend. Last week, Mon – Thurs., was the Teaching Academy Summer Institute – I was a co-chair, and I think it went pretty well if I do say so myself. I […]
Saturday: didn’t get out of bed until 8:20. Headed to the farmers market to brave the crowds, hoping the cloudy grey weather, that seems to be always threatening rain, would keep the riffraff down. No such luck. So we just shuffled along, with all the slowpokes. Since I got a CSA box just Thursday, I […]
Rach and I have been talking about macaroons on our walks – among other things. She is craving to try to make the real, classic French, actually Parisian, macaroons – silky little pillows in lots of flavors, with fillings. David Lebovitz has a lengthy post and recipe about the difference between Parisian macaroons and other […]
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 […]
Three movies watched, five to go. I’ll start photographing the ticket stubs with the titles tomorrow. Korean gangsters, French high school students and teacher, and the 2nd one today was Romanian. If I intersperse the food, the way I did with TIFF, I’d have to say that Friday was an ordinary work day, foodwise – […]
Joe & Terry – visiting from Seattle – and Rachael came over for dinner last night. With Mark and Kanari and me, that made six for dinner. I made a beef tenderloin – bought on a whim at Sentry last weekend, a 3-lb hunk of peeled tenderloin, at $20, seemed too good to pass up. […]
I’m trying this recipe that was posted on Food52 – This is the middles – gonna let them chill for a bit and brave the grocery store, on a Saturday afternoon. Mostly it’s been pretty easy to work with – I just colored a bit too much of the filling mixture yellow, so I’ll have […]
I made the $75 donation for three people, and Mark and I and our visiting Japanese student went off to the Hilldale shopping mall on Friday evening for this fund-raiser event. It was a little disappointing. The only food that there was really enough of was platters of gado-gado – Indonesian peanut sauce, served […]