So here we are again, another Sunday. Another week of plugged into online meetings all day – and sometimes in the evening too – and not doing much of anything creative, except maybe cooking dinner. And not taking very many pics of food or anything. Like today, I planned to make some more masks with … [Read more…]
So, I feel like I haven’t been recording the things on my blog that I normally do. I mean, in theory my tagline is “reflections on life & food”, so I like to write about what I’ve been watching and reading and cooking and eating. But it’s winter and it’s too dark to take pictures … [Read more…]
Madison Gas & Electric is shutting off our electricity tomorrow morning, so I guess I really have to take the day off from work, although I never have been too good about participating in events in honor of Dr. King. Two years ago when I was in Seattle I looked up all the marches I … [Read more…]
On Sunday I made brunch and some granola, and a chocolate cake from the Snacking Cakes book (Yossy Arefi) that Rach gave me for Christmas. I’d actually made another cake from this book, a cream cheese berry cake, when it was posted on Epicurious in November. By the time the cake was done it was … [Read more…]
There’s nothing left of the holiday goodies but fruitcake, oh and a few crystalized ginger shortbreads. And a tupperware of marzipan dates. I’m sure I’ll manage to consume it all – none of these are varieties Mark likes – and I think as long as I don’t eat it all in one day, just spread … [Read more…]
I’m hoping that the superstition I have always sorta believed, that as your New Year’s Day goes, so goes the new year for you, doesn’t always come true. Because I didn’t have the greatest day yesterday, New Year’s Day. On our walk the day before, the morning of NYE, I fell on some ice and … [Read more…]