Tired of the Olympics, tired of being too busy at work, tired of being tired. Not tired of winter yet – I still like the snow. We had few nights this week where we got an inch plus, and last night just a dust – made it pretty in the morning. My brother wrote a […]
Deborah Madison just did a new book, What We Eat When We Eat Alone. The overall conclusion of the book is that when we eat alone, we don’t have to follow the rules – we can eat what and where we want – standing over the sink, in bed, in front of TV, and we […]
Soup, bread and salad for dinner sounded good to 24 grownups and 5 kids under seven, on a frigid night in late January, last Thursday’s dinner. But did I take a single picture? Nope. I tried to plan things so that people could be as acetic or extravagant in their food choices as they wished […]
…. must have been a busy week, since I have not written since last Friday. We’re into the grinding down part of the winter, we had rain and fog, and now it’s really cold, that cheery sun actually indicating that’s it’s clear enough to be cold. And because of the rain, we lost a lot […]
Well sort of. Since November, I had the last two butternut squash sitting in the basement, waiting to be cooked. I was going to peel, cube, and roast them for pizza with caramelized onions and goat cheese for a cookie party appetizer, but it seemed just too hard to deal with cubing squash while I […]
Winter Light is the title of an Oregon album that I loved in the winter of 1974-75, my first spent in Wisconsin, where the light seemed to me more beautiful than in my home town, grey and overcast Pittsburgh. In Wisconsin, I told my family, it snows, and then it clears up and gets really […]
Last night a group of about 14 ate chicken or roasted squash & corn enchiladas, Spanish rice, salad with Cafe Flora ranch dressing, and flan, at the first winter one dish dinner for 2010. When I headed over to the house my plan was to just take iPhone pictures – but I didn’t even do […]
So all the weather guys are talking about how the whole world’s in the deep freeze – even Letterman just made a joke about how they should let Rush Limbaugh out of the hospital because we could use the hot air. I made fried rice for dinner – looks like I posted my recipe a […]