Sunday morning (oh, that’s a song) I decided the best way to de-stress was to NOT try to walk or go out & exercise before brunch. Carl & Susan are coming over – oldsters like us, and fully vaxed – and I’m making a pretty simple menu** that gets done à la minute, except for … [Read more…]
I added a spring-y banner, hellebore that I photographed last year in late March. And we had a kind of tapas potatoes, potatoes baked in a spicy sauce, like the hot tapas patatas bravas, with baked eggs & fruit salad & bacon & sourdough toast for brunch. Now I’m going to make banana pudding, with … [Read more…]
Madison Gas & Electric is shutting off our electricity tomorrow morning, so I guess I really have to take the day off from work, although I never have been too good about participating in events in honor of Dr. King. Two years ago when I was in Seattle I looked up all the marches I … [Read more…]
On Sunday I made brunch and some granola, and a chocolate cake from the Snacking Cakes book (Yossy Arefi) that Rach gave me for Christmas. I’d actually made another cake from this book, a cream cheese berry cake, when it was posted on Epicurious in November. By the time the cake was done it was … [Read more…]
By doing 23 & Me, Rachael found she had a half-sister, who came to visit while Rach was here, thus the houseguest weekend. Which had before it a long, but actually short week, I mean, considering that the work week was only Tuesday through Friday, it sure was long. Speaking of Tuesday, meaning the Tuesday … [Read more…]
Today I made the brunch that I probably would have made last Sunday for Mother’s Day, if I hadn’t been at the iSchool graduation instead. Asparagus tart – with ramps and a shallot that had been in the bottom of the veggie drawer for months, and a little bit of goat cheese. Rhubarb muffins. Bacon. … [Read more…]
Friday – International Women’s Day – we went to the Madison symphony. It was a night of three featured soloists – who all play in the band: the concertmaster, on violin; first clarinet; and the tuba player. I find it hard to call him “tubist” although that seems to be the correct term. I made … [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 it’s a natural thing that as you age, you start feeling like you’re no longer “at the pulse of it all” like Arthur Kane, as Robyn Hitchcock sings in N.Y. Doll. This weekend, somehow, I felt worse than that – like I’m becoming invisible. Probably much of my malaise is related to the … [Read more…]
Friday night – takeaway Chinese, from this funky place in a nearby strip mall that we’ve been going to for years. Jen and I ordered something like $140 of food – I mean, there were 9 of us … but the fridge is still full of cardboard takeout containers with an inch of food in … [Read more…]