So I’ve been feeling guilty for not writing and not photographing food and feeling like I must’ve never been this bad before, but I was looking at last fall, and I didn’t even take a picture of the pies I made for Pie Palooza, which (it says on the website) were Gluten-free Corn & Pepper … [Read more…]
The first week was characterized by heat, tomatoes, and Rach was here. Wednesday was Rosh Hashanah and I made challah. I got my annual CSA 25-pound box of tomatoes, and made sauce and blanched and diced and froze a lot of them and also made four trays of oven dried tomatoes. Rach and I bought … [Read more…]
We got all packed (stopping for selfies) and took out the trash, and returned the keys to the airbnb to their lockbox, and started our travel-home day with coffee at the Balzac’s at the (closed, because it was Monday) St. Lawrence Market. We drank our coffee and split a muffin at one of the outside … [Read more…]
On Sunday we were gone from the airbnb for over 12 hours – from 8:00 am to after 9:00 PM. It was like a very long work day, but at least included dinner. We got coffee at the closest Starbucks – not the fastest customer service but just down the stairs from the airbnb – … [Read more…]
Friday was another 3 movie day, two family dramas and one romantic comedy. We hung around at the airbnb and ate yogurts and banana and peanut butter toast for breakfast because The Wife, our first film, the first family drama, didn’t start until noon, plus we had dinner reservations between our 2nd & 3rd movies, … [Read more…]
On Wednesday, we started our day with bacon sandwiches at St Lawrence Market. That was a heap of bacon. After the bacon, we proceeded on to Darkest Hour, yet another cinematic depiction of WWII, before the US got involved, like Dunkirk, and yet another version of Winston Churchill. We last saw him played by John … [Read more…]
On our day 4, Monday, our first movie was Happy End directed by Michael Haneke, the Austrian director. It’s kind of a sequel to sequel to 2012’s Amour, that I think we tried to see at our very first TIFF. It was really well done but hard to feel sympathetic for all those rich people. … [Read more…]
Days 1, 2, & 3 for us anyways – the Festival really started Thursday, so our day 1 was actually day 2 officially. It didn’t start getting confusing until Monday, when all the introducers started saying, “welcome to day 5” when it was only day 4 for us. But that’s the next post. <grin> Day … [Read more…]
I haven’t written since we got back from D.C. two weeks ago. I could say it’s because I’ve been working on getting my fall semester online courses ready, and it’s so much the same, writing content and posting it online in a content management system, that I don’t have energy left for blogging. Maybe. I … [Read more…]
From Sunday to Wednesday last week we were tourists in our nation’s Capital. We got in on Sunday morning, dropped our bags at the hotel – a Kimpton that I got at an astonishingly good price – and went off seeking breakfast. I took a picture of a building tear-down and got another one on … [Read more…]