But it’s Tuesday … oh well.
We went to our state library conference in Green Bay last week, drove up early on Weds. to get there in time to see Chip Kidd, and just stayed one night.
We had dinner at a place called Chives – kind of a gastro pub, casual feel and good food. I had French onion soup with a grilled cheese sandwich and a little pile of salad. I took a picture but it was way too dark.
Had breakfast on Thursday at Kuvarna Coffee – a little over earnest, but good. I had oatmeal and I think it was toasted – like this – and then lots of steamed milk dumped over. So the first bite seemed way underdone, but it improved with sitting a bit. The apple slices on the side were cut with an onion knife.
Friday I wanted to go see Robert Storr MMoCA. I came home to work on my online class midterm, and had had it by 5:00. We ended up going to a movie at the cheap theater instead – The Way Way Back. Mark had gone out to lunch, and didn’t feel like much for dinner, so Toni and I ate leftover frozen pizza, from the supply I had laid in for her, for her sleepover with a couple of other girls while we were at the conference, reheated. We took our house guest Iam to the bus back to Chicago, and then headed off to the movie.
Saturday we did the farmers’ market and then Toni & Mark went to watch the girls’ cross country meet in McFarland, and I worked on the midterm more. I biked to Sentry to do a little more grocery shopping. I made oatmeal bread, and I finally roasted the red peppers I’d been harboring in the downstairs fridge. I made a mixed herb pesto – mint, cilantro, parsley – and we ate it on pasta with roasted squash. It was OK, but think it will be better on quesadillas, with roasted squash & pepper jack. Then we watched Cloud Atlas on TV. Weird but good. And long.
Sunday morning I walked and then we had a “normal” breakfast – potatoes with garlic & thyme, bacon, scrambled eggs, oatmeal bread toast, pear slices. I worked more on the damn midterm, and another AFS student came over to hang out and make cookies. I drove to E. Wash. with a bag of water softener salt, stopped by the co-op, and went out to PetsSmart for kitty litter and food. Finished the fricking midterm tho I am pretty sure I did rather poorly. Made fried apples with lots of butter and brandy and we ate them with ice cream and caramel sauce – caramel apple sundaes. They were good, but not as good as the last spoonful of apples that I ate right out of the pan with the caramel sauce. I ate too much cheap Halloween candy at the conference, and I dipped into it Friday night, and Saturday, too, out of frustration with the midterm – so it was good to eat “good” sweet stuff instead of crappy.
Just hid the Halloween candy in yet another spot so I won’t eat it all before Thursday. Shouldn’t of got Milky Ways & Reese’s the good stuff
— Debra Shapiro (@DebsLunch) October 26, 2013
Monday a normal work day; was going to leave work at 4:30 and bus to the library for a longer walk home, but our director rousted everyone to go to a happy hour at one of the student unions, trying to make nice with another dept, but only two of them showed. It was OK to have a beer or even two, because we were going to the Head & the Heart, at the Orpheum. I’m listening to them now. They kept saying what a great room it was, and I felt bad – it is a great room, but it’s awful disrepair. I hope somebody hurries up and buys it out of foreclosure, and gets it in shape – and golly, looks like they did.
Today, Tuesday, I worked at home and taught an online class at 7:00 PM. I made a white lasagna for dinner, with greens and ricotta – usingthis recipe for chicken mushroom lasagna, but with veggie broth and cream for the sauce, and ricotta and greens (turnip, beet, and tat soy) instead of chicken & mushrooms, and mozzarella and a little bit of feta instead of Gruyere & Parmesan.
Tomorrow I’m gonna carve pumpkins.
Sunday breakfast
Greens lasagna
Pumpkins awaiting carving
