In my last post I mentioned some of my recent cooking near misses, slimy, smelly broccoli; bitter squash; elderly peppers. I’ve continued having things go awry in the kitchen, not disasters that go straight into compost, more like disappointments. Like this leek and squash galette I made the other day, where I got the bottom … [Read more…]
And to use up local veggies & other ingredients. Recently I feel like I’ve been keeping the fridge emptier, buying smaller amounts, not having too many leftovers, trying out recipes that I’m interested in, making food that pleases me, and Mark will eat. Like that cookbook I have, Small Victories. ‘Course, no CSA this year … [Read more…]
After all the tomatoes that I picked and processed the last weekend of August, I went a little nuts and got another 25-pound box of tomatoes that I picked up last Friday. Which was after me and Jasper went to the Wednesday market and bought 10 pounds of tomatoes to make two tomato pies for … [Read more…]
It’s been awhile since I’ve written, and it sorta seems that long, but also it sorta doesn’t, like that carton of yogurt I pulled out of the fridge this morning that I thought was kinda new, only to see it’s actually only 2 days away from the end of that week you get after the … [Read more…]
OK, it’s November. We’ve had some days with a high of 35° and other days like today where the high was 66°. One of the really cold days was last Tuesday, Halloween. I already posted a bunch of pics of our pumpkins but here they are lit on Halloween night. We got hardly any trick … [Read more…]
That I’ve been thinking about on walks. And I guess this is mostly pop culture. I’m so shallow. Jack White is very tall. We watched him on SNL and the tallness was obvious. He may be the reincarnation of Jimmy Page (I know, I know, Page’s technically still alive), channeling Robert Johnson, and a hundred … [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…]
… the rounder we get. Not to quote the Grateful Dead or anything. And not that I’ll ever feel caught up. I am listening to my new album by Ace of Cups, San Francisco’s all-girl psychedelic band, who’re all old ladies like me now. Here’s a bunch of randoms: Madison, Minneapolis, and back in Madison. … [Read more…]
I think I used to be more interesting than I am now, or more diligent. Or maybe I just had more time. Case in point – here’s this year’s First Weekend of Fall post, and a prior, same title, from 2012. I was cooking more, School Woods was still up and running, celebrating 6 years, … [Read more…]