So, since the last time I wrote, we’ve gone to war along with Israel, attacking Iran. What a combo, Netanyahu and Trump. Though I’ve recently starting reading Heather Delaney Reese on Substack, and they talk a lot about what a wreck Trump is, physically and mentally, and that actually only makes him more dangerous, not … [Read more…]
And various cooking adventures. The last full week of September, so like a week and a half ago(ish) we spent Thursday and Friday partially in Chicago. Thursday was Mark’s birthday and his present from me was go to Chicago, see Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me in the Studebaker Theater, and stay in a nice hotel. … [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…]
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…]
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…]
In the face of every news item being worse than the last, what is there to do but carry on trying to be normal? Which for me of course is cooking. And going for walks, sometimes to one of my HMO’s clinics to get a shot, like I did on Tuesday morning. After getting back … [Read more…]
Last year we had about two weeks of winter, in January. This year we had a little more wintry weather, but no snow until February, and I couldn’t even help shovel because of my wrist. Which is healing, but slower than I’d like. And it was really just one snow, which came the Wednesday before … [Read more…]
Because we live in Madison WI, a college town, we get winter break when the students are gone, basically New Year’s to MLK Day, with the town to ourselves. So we try to take advantage of the situation and go places that would otherwise be crowded. There’s a restaurant downtown, Short Stack, that usually has … [Read more…]
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…]
Whatta week … I was gonna say more like 9 days since I last posted but it’s really only been a week. The political news is crazy, the weather is changeable, and I haven’t been doing very well at photographing food. Or at any of my retirement re-organization projects. Or any of my more vague … [Read more…]