For Thanksgiving, I usually make a giant bucket of chex mix, and torment my family with it. We eat it while we’re waiting for dinner. There’s nothing like real butter and fresh garlic to make tempting junk food even more addictive. I didn’t make pickled carrots, either. We cancelled our 6-person, socially distanced, out in … [Read more…]
We needed water softener salt, so I decided to make the week’s shopping expedition a Costco run. And I figured I might as well go ahead and get the cookie ingredients that I get at Costco, like the 36 pounds of butter that even at Woodman’s gets me a lot of WTF looks, but at … [Read more…]
Sometimes negative is positive. Like Saturday morning when I got my most recent Covid test results back as negative – that’s good because it means I don’t have the virus, even after working the election almost 2 weeks ago. I waited to give it time to incubate. Sometimes positive is negative. Like this whole election … [Read more…]
Before the election I was so worried about it: what the outcome would be, working the polls, supervising a very large new staff, getting the polls open, keeping everything legit, would I get Covid from working?; that I had a hard time thinking about and scheduling things for the after. Then, after was the long … [Read more…]
I started writing this on Thursday afternoon, when like everyone else, I was waiting to hear the outcome of the election, and I didn’t really wanna talk about it, much, except to share my bafflement and horror at the fact that the election is so close. What does it say about our country that for … [Read more…]
I carved a pumpkin with a mask on. We put out bags of candy, with a peppermint patty, a snickers, and a peanut butter cup in each one. I made 10 bags, and only 2 got taken so I brought the rest in on Sunday morning. We had a zoom Halloween party with the kids, … [Read more…]
So, way back at the beginning of pandemic, I made these long rise whole wheat English muffins from the Washington Post. Then in June I tried out some sourdough ones, using a King Arthur recipe. They came out way too big, but were really good for egg sangwiches. So, now – in October – I … [Read more…]
Saturday morning I got up and while I was still in my pajamas, I baked a bunch of pumpkin stuff – well, kabocha squash really. I had a bucket of puree that was really dry, but smooth and sweet and a very pretty color. It went into pumpkin scones and pumpkin-cranberry muffins earlier in the … [Read more…]
Or doing a bunch of stuff half-ass-ed, more like. On Saturday morning, having it all meant biking off to the Westside Farmers Market when it was grey and windy and cold; I felt gypped because all the weather apps said the strong winds would not start until after we got back, but they started early. … [Read more…]
That I’ve been thinking about on walks. And I guess this is mostly pop culture. I’m so shallow. Jack White is very tall. We watched him on SNL and the tallness was obvious. He may be the reincarnation of Jimmy Page (I know, I know, Page’s technically still alive), channeling Robert Johnson, and a hundred … [Read more…]