30 days 30 50 songs
I didn’t hear enough of this during the election season.
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30 days
Unauthorized recipe testing
I’d wanted to make this Sam Sifton chicken tetrazzini from the NYT mag ever since it was published last fall, even though it’s not like any tetrazzini I’m familiar with, that usually involve creamy white sauce and crumbs on top. It includes a chili-based sauce with dried red chiles and chicken broth and milk and … [Read more…]
A regular Sunday
So I guess yesterday was the first ordinary Sunday in January, because New Year’s Day was Sunday this year. I got up and made cherry muffins and a few rhubarb ones. As I suspected, the rhubarb ones aren’t very pretty. Then I went out to the fabric store and got a bunch of pink fleece … [Read more…]
City streets in the dead of winter
Stop your mind with dirty snow. Jefferson Airplane, Ice Cream Phoenix, track 9 on Crown of Creation. Early January, what should be the brutal time of winter here in Wisconsin, is a little weird this year. Yes, it’s been brutally cold, but only for the last few days: on Monday & Tuesday it was in … [Read more…]
Catching up … sort of
Happy New year, 2017. The bills and papers are not yet sorted – but us gold-plated state employees still have the day off tomorrow, to make up for the Sunday and Saturday holidays. We haven’t gotten paid yet either, because of the holidays, and the Federal Reserve’s closed tomorrow so no wire transfers – so … [Read more…]
Doing away with all that
I’ve been making a list of the things I expect our president elect to do away with. Of course, the big and most serious one is Obamacare, otherwise known as health insurance for millions of people. The thing that burns me is that the Republicans keep touting health savings accounts as the answer – but … [Read more…]
An UN-blogged Christmas week
Just so you know – I have still been having a life, I just haven’t managed to write about it much, recently. I blame work – I was totally overloaded this fall semester, 3 classes instead of 2. I finished grading at 2:48 PM on Christmas eve. (Although I think I was grading on Christmas … [Read more…]
It just isn’t fair
We had a terribly mild fall, warm enough to sit outside well into November, and then I got a snow storm for the night of my party. I guess there are a couple of up sides: despite the mild weather, it did cool down enough in November to make cookie storage OK in the vestibule, … [Read more…]
A bunch of cookies
Here’re pics of some of the cookie kinds I baked since last Sunday. [supsystic-slider id=13 ]