When cookie season is terribly compressed. Not enough weekends, and the ones I do have, I keep giving up for trips to Chicago. I’ve made one cookie kind so far, the lebkuchen. This year I tried a new recipe, from King Arthur Flour, and I kinda like it. I made my normal batch using the … [Read more…]
Tuesday this week I taught my third cooking class at Orange Tree Imports. I think this one was the most fun yet. The theme was vegetable side dishes “easy enough for everyday, fancy enough for Thanksgiving”. We made from-scratch green bean casserole. Potato Poblano Gratin, pretty much the Gourmet recipe as is. I demoed making … [Read more…]
I was looking at the buttons on the backpack of the person in front of me on my walk to work this morning, and thinking I agreed with most of them. One of them said “she, her, hers” preferred pronouns so I guess I am safe to call the person a woman. Other buttons said … [Read more…]
Seems like every morning this week I woke up at 4:30 and couldn’t go back to sleep. So, I’ve definitely been a bit draggy. I guess it’s because of the time change, fall back – but I like that Sunday with an extra hour (that was just last week) so much that I’m not too … [Read more…]
So ever since the garage job started the first week of August the overhanging question was would it be done in time for us to move all the stuff from the Chicago apartment into it at the end of October. And no, unfortunately, I did not meet my goal of taking daily progress pics, sorry … [Read more…]
The weather in Denver quickly changed. On Saturday it was almost 70 when we were hiking in Boulder, and by the time we got up Sunday there was snow – an inch or two on the ground, and it was cold, in the 20s. Saturday after our hike we ate at Centro. I still have … [Read more…]
I’m in Denver for a webdesign conference that starts Monday. It’s a single stream conference – one thing at a time! – so I’m looking forward to that after all the library conferences I go to with multiple events in any time block, resulting in blocks where there are like 5 things I want to … [Read more…]
I got a new cooking mag yesterday and all the food looked really garish to me. Like the cover with this drippy red cranberry bread, that could just as easily be a meatloaf. And one of the “dazzling desserts” the cover refers to is this Croquembouche (tower of baby cream puffs, with spun sugar wrapped … [Read more…]
This weekend was supposed to be kind of crazy, and was still pretty packed. We had tickets for Sleater-Kinney in Chicago on Friday (because I screwed up in responding to Ticketmaster “get your tickets now!” emails, and bought tickets for the Riviera in Chicago on October 18, when I meant to buy tickets for the … [Read more…]
Hmmm, having my website back has not magically given me more time to write for it. Last week was kind of a busy week. Not much cooking, too much eating, state library conference at the Kalahari Resort, featuring oblivious whiteness representations of Africa, in Wisconsin Dells, which itself is rife with oblivious whiteness representations of … [Read more…]