I’m in Denver where it’s about 10°. Back home in Madison it’s -10°. And in Minneapolis it was also about -10° this afternoon and they’re marching in the streets. We’re here visiting the grandkids. Here’s Callan, the newest one. Jasper at about the same age when I first started doing granny daycare at his house. … [Read more…]
I think the fabric of the universe has been rent asunder. The weather has been nuts – it can’t stay cold and keeps going up and down. On Monday it was in the 40s, up to 50° on Tuesday, then the wind rose and temperature dropped to the 20s by Wednesday morning and we got … [Read more…]
This one’s for everyone, including me, who cooks dinner most nights. And if you’re like me, I’m sure you sometimes wonder why you do it, but most of the time it’s just so ingrained that doubt hardly enters. Your internal monologue, like mine, is largely pondering what’s in the fridge, what can you make with … [Read more…]
I tried to give myself a nice long cookie season by scheduling the party on the late side, December 20th. But somehow life intervened and I still ended up with not enough time. I feel like I missed out on a bunch of stuff by staying home and baking. But that’s nothing new. Right now, … [Read more…]
This cookie season has been marked by lots of things coming out not quite right. By my (overly high?) standards, anyways. Let’s go through. Things started off OK with the jam stars and the lebkuchen. There’re plenty of jam stars, starring in their own video and the lebkuchen are nice and chewy and you can … [Read more…]
The 2025 jam stars in their first ever video. So far I’ve made the jam stars and the lebkuchen. And I tried out a new recipe for the cranberry pistachio slice & bakes. I think I’ll go with it. About 10 days ago, I made a pumpkin pie with a crumb crust using some chocolate … [Read more…]
I had all the best intention to write sooner this time, but the best of intentions in Scottish, Robert Burns I think, “gang aft agley”. So now I think I have to try to remember my thoughts since November 5th. Good memory exercise. And oh, oops, even before November 5, all the way back to … [Read more…]
We spent last Friday, Halloween, in Chicago. We went down for a double-header, Chicago Symphony in the afternoon, and David Byrne at night. And now it’s only Wednesday, but it feels like it’s already Friday. Maybe because of the time change Saturday night. Maybe because Jasper came on Monday this week, so that I could … [Read more…]
I’m still having this problem where I forget to photograph food. I think it’s partially because I feel like the pictures of, for example, a pan of scones from 2025 looks almost the same as the one from 2020. And also because it’s the time of year where it’s too dark to get a good … [Read more…]
By which I mean here I am living relatively comfortably, but each new headline is another horror. Trump just says this shit and people believe him. Yesterday I kept seeing pictures of the east wing of the Whitehouse being torn down for Trump’s Mar-a-Lago style ball room. Where were the preservationists? I heard a couple … [Read more…]