{"id":8443,"date":"2014-03-12T18:15:47","date_gmt":"2014-03-12T23:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/?p=8443"},"modified":"2014-03-16T22:41:51","modified_gmt":"2014-03-17T03:41:51","slug":"the-week-that-wasnt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/the-week-that-wasnt\/","title":{"rendered":"The week that wasn’t"},"content":{"rendered":"

Or maybe week & a half. We’re talking about last week – March 3 – but this week – March 10 is also in the running. Everything is wasn’t, didn’t, couldn’t, wouldn’t, shouldn’t, can’t. I think everyone – or at least John and I – are stuck in the end-of-winter, time change, feel like it’s all getting away from me blues.<\/p>\n

Rach was here last week – we got back from Chicago in time to pick her up Sunday, because we didn’t linger for brunch in Chicago, just a quick breakfast, so got back home sooner. Our cat sitters didn’t come on Saturday – but came by Sunday morning, a few hours before we did, so the kitties were all happy.<\/p>\n

Mark and I shoveled snow, and I went grocery shopping, and then got Rach, and made apple crisp<\/a> for us and tortilla casserole<\/a> and ice cream pie for the dinner on Wisconsin<\/a> kids who were coming Monday night. The apple crisp was good but could’ve had a higher ratio of apples to crisp.<\/p>\n

Monday Rach & I walked to work together, and she went to dinner with friends while we ate with the students. Tuesday morning there was another 3-4 inches to shovel, and off to work again, but then Rach was too sick to go to work for the rest of the week. Tuesday night I had class, so didn’t make dinner – everyone was kind of on their own. Wednesday I worked at home – trying to stave off me getting the cold that everyone else had – drank two whole pots of tea. I forgot a work phone meeting that was supposed to be at 10:00 on Weds. morning. That night again, I think everyone just sorta scrounged their own dinners. Thursday I had some plan for leftovers that I can’t even recall – while I was walking home I decided that I wanted Chinese take-away, and hot & sour soup appealed to all the sickies. On Friday we had symphony tickets, so we all snacked beforehand. I finished what I could of the Hugh What’s His Face curry<\/a>, and the Szechuan green beans from the night before. It was a shortish symphony with Yefim Bronfman. I came home and made a hot toddy and watched the Sopranos.<\/p>\n

Saturday morning I got up and took a walk – yay, finally did something. It was a little slipperier than I would’ve liked, but not too terrible. Took Rach to the airport and came home and got my tax stuff together – another achievement. I made pizza with arugula salad on top, and we thought we’d go see Captain Phillips at the Marquee Room at Union South – we can walk there, and it was an 8:30 movie, and we didn’t think Toni’s bus would be in till 11:00. But she caught an earlier bus, that got her back to Madison by 10:00 – so we didn’t do that either.<\/p>\n

I didn’t make a King Cake on Monday night – we didn’t celebrate Mardi Gras. I thought I’d make something yeasted and filled on Sunday morning, but I didn’t. Oh, and all week I was planning to make this creamy potato-poblano gratin<\/a>, and had bought the cream, and had the poblanos leftover from Monday. But I didn’t. Instead, we had potatoes with what Rick Bayliss calls “essential rajas”, strips of fried onion with strips of roasted poblano.<\/p>\n

And in keeping with the theme – over the weekend, I didn’t take any pictures of our meals, although I did post about Linzer tart<\/a>.<\/p>\n

On Monday I carried on the didn’t theme by skipping my monthly academic staff assembly meeting – to go meet with the organizer of the phone called I’d missed on Wednesday. Then I went home and made the “essential rajas” into enchiladas.<\/p>\n

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King Cake from 2007<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Or maybe week & a half. We’re talking about last week – March 3 – but this week – March 10 is also in the running. Everything is wasn’t, didn’t, couldn’t, wouldn’t, shouldn’t, can’t. I think everyone – or at least John and I – are stuck in the end-of-winter, time change, feel like it’s […]<\/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":[12,43,315],"class_list":["post-8443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-kids","tag-leftovers","tag-mardi-gras"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8443","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=8443"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8484,"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8443\/revisions\/8484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}