This year my birthday’s a Monday so we started the festivities off with a little party on Friday night. I tried to keep the menu simple – no hot appetizers, everything on the table basically at once, no replenishing. It worked pretty well but I didn’t take enough pictures. Any, really. Like of my favorite … [Read more…]
Of course we’ve been eating, but I’ve been cheating a bit on cooking, meaning salads and sandwiches and leftovers, because of the heat. Let’s see if I can remember a few things, since I have to go back about 2 weeks. I’ve managed to cook almost all the double-CSA-box veggies, except the cucumbers. I composted … [Read more…]
Here’s a sign of how old I am. All these groups and organizations in Madison are celebrating 50th anniversaries this year. Or last year, like Willy Street Co-op. WORT, our community radio station where I was a volunteer and then a volunteer programmer and then a Board member from about 1984-1991, is 50 this year. … [Read more…]
It’s one week + one day since the 4th of July. Since then I’ve had a lot of cooking adventures that didn’t come out quite right. And the ever-increasing horror of the big ugly bill, somewhat ameliorated with small encouragements when people fight back. And all the bad news from Texas and other climate change … [Read more…]
We started off looking at a show of work by Raymond Saunders, who grew up in Pittsburgh and was inspired to be an artist by his high school teachers and also by taking the Saturday morning art classes at the Carnegie, that Andy Warhol also attended. It was called the Tam O’Shanter classes when I … [Read more…]
Except it really wasn’t, it was more like a fun four days in our old home town. For years my brother and have talked about going to Pittsburgh, visit our parents grave, wander around some of our old haunts, maybe see a few old friends. And that’s pretty much exactly what we did, except we … [Read more…]
Yeesh, as I write this Sunday morning at 8:13am, it’s already 80° outside with 77% humidity. Yesterday we tried to go to Summerfest and wimped out, mostly on account of me, we left at a little after 5:00 having been there since 3:00, when the band we were really there to see, Japanese Breakfast, didn’t … [Read more…]
June 12: Now edited with additional mishaps I forgot – and revised with a more optimistic ending! All minor, but when there’s a lot of them, especially when we’re living during the Trump administration, where every new headline is ….. it’s hard to stay optimistic. Anyways when I got back from Duluth last Sunday, I … [Read more…]
Or at least I was in Duluth when I started writing this. I’m on the Board of our local grocery co-op, Willy Street Co-op, and five of the current nine Board members attended CCMA, the Consumer Cooperative Management Association conference, which was in Duluth. Years ago, in 2011 to be exact, my prior tenure on … [Read more…]
Sunday of Memorial Day Weekend I went into a baking frenzy. I made cranberry almond scones, that weren’t quite sweet enough. Either I didn’t put in enough sugar or I forgot it entirely. The scones have a nice texture though. I baked the croissant sourdough that I’d had rising. It’s regular sourdough but when you’re … [Read more…]