The pain in my back was bad – probably from sitting crunched up in airplanes – and it made me really angry to be not feeling right. But I felt a lot better when I was cooking.<\/p>\n
Monday John had to come to Lake Mills, only 30 miles away, for work, so we had breakfast together – cheese omlette and those last two kinda dried out bagels, toasted, with butter, to make up for their aged-ness. I went to the Dr. and discovered that my back pain is a muscle bunch – not a tumor or cancer or any of the horrible stuff I suspected. I get physical therapy in about 10 days now. I went to see Bob Dylan, I biked there, and had bowl of oatmeal – with raisins and brown sugar and a little half & half – for dinner at 10:00 p.m.<\/p>\n
On Tuesday, I made a cauliflower gratin from my new Around my French Table<\/a> book, by Dorrie Greenspan, and some delicata squash rings, cooked in butter and apple cider, that I over caramelized a little. And I left the cheese out of the gratin – and the cauliflower was old enough that although the gratin tasted fine, it left an old cauliflower sulfur smell in the fridge. I threw the cheese on top, and melted it over, but I think it was not quite the same.<\/p>\n On Wednesday I went to see Dikko Faust and Esther Smith of Purgatory Pie Press<\/a> – I was at Beloit College the same time as both of the book artists in the 1970s; Dikko was a T.A. in my graphics class, and Esther lived in a big house with other artists, where I went to bake bread and for parties from time to time. They were speaking at UW-Madison Libraries because they have a show at Beloit<\/a> right now, so they were doing a Midwest swing<\/a>. I came home and ate acorn squash cooked on time bake, with maple syrup and butter, and a little bit of the cauliflower gratin on the side.<\/p>\n On Thursday, I got my new CSA box, and came home and made carrot cake for a private party brunch<\/a> that was going to happen Saturday, and Bolognese for lasagne, and I’m trying to remember what I ate …Oh, yea it was another edition of my bottom of the vegetable bin stir fry<\/a>, and a quite good one at that – green beans and carrots and celery and cabbage and a whole jalapeno, so a little bit spicey. Ramen noodles, and I didn’t overcook them. The sauce was lime juice, soy sauce, sesame oil, brown sugar, and one of the 2 packs of ramen noodles’ seasoning packet. Yum. It was even good cold the next day.<\/p>\n My bowl of bottom of the vegetable bin stir fry<\/p><\/div>\n \n \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It’s been all about using up whatever’s in the fridge, since I got back from Pittsburgh on Sunday. On Sunday, I made a pasta with roasted vegetables, and a plum tart – used up that pack of RP’s pumpkin tortellini, and the leftover salad greens from School Woods birthday, and the bulb part of 2 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[29,43,158,59],"class_list":["post-2018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-failures","tag-leftovers","tag-stir-fry","tag-vegetables"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2018"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2026,"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2018\/revisions\/2026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/20101029-091616.jpg\")