We got a lot of rain over the weekend. On Thursday afternoon, it was hot and looked threatening, but I was determined to bike to get my CSA box – afterall it’s all those cars that are making it so hot. Mark was out walking and it was getting darker and darker, but he made … [Read more…]
I’m always on the lookout for a new banana bread recipe, especially this week, when it got hot and all the bananas in the house went instantly from ripe and edible to spotty and black and only good for cooking. For a long time, my standard has been based on Mollie Katzen – bananas soaked … [Read more…]
When I made pickled zucchini, and we had an omelette with grated zucchini folded into the egg for Sunday brunch. Instead of eating it with tomato sauce on top, like the recipe suggests, we ate it with sungold tomatoes on the side. Today I made double chocolate zucchini bread for breakfast. And it will be … [Read more…]
I usually don’t get too political in this space, but this morning my first update from the New York Times was to say that Clinton and Trump are tied. Utterly horrifying to me, because I’m sure that any success Trump’s enjoying is based on hatred and fear and racism, pretty much the same as Brexit. … [Read more…]
I looked at Lottie & Doof the other day, and Tim called his catch-up post “Digest: recipe name and recipe name”. I was thinking more of a slideshow, except I didn’t take very good pictures of the weekend’s food enterprises, tacos with pulled pork and corn salsa, and Blueberry Muffins. And, oh yea, I froze … [Read more…]
Lamers, yes, but we still managed to do some fun things, and I cooked a lot. We saw two movies, neither of which was overwhelmingly good, but still entertaining. [portfolio_slideshow pagerpos=disabled size=large] On Friday to start off the long weekend, we went to see Our Kind of Traitor and then came home and ate assorted … [Read more…]