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…]
Enervated (one of my mom’s favorite words). Spending too much time sopping up water in the basement. Saturday night we got 3+ inches in something like 3 hours. Quietly freaking about recent political news, although, since Mark is in quarantine upstairs after he tested positive for Covid Friday morning, I’m downstairs with the cats. Which … [Read more…]
And rhubarb, because when we got the last CSA box of our short 4-week season last Thursday, I dumped my kohlrabi in the swap box and in exchange took someone else’s rhubarb that they had dumped. So I got double rhubarb and no kohlrabi which is A-OK with me, but now I do need to … [Read more…]
Most of last week it was still May so we could be in denial. And it’s still been stormy, albeit with nice days alternated in. Like last Wednesday when Jasper came and the sky was bright blue. We also worked out a new yogurt-eating method. The week before he wasn’t interested in anything off a … [Read more…]
Weird winter weather continues. Last Thursday, after the temps had been in the 50s, in other words, completely unseasonable for February, we got rain and wind in Madison and a tornado to the southeast. One of the tornadoes touched down maybe a 10 minute drive from my CSA farm. I emailed them and they said … [Read more…]
Neither Punxsutawney Phil nor Jimmy the Groundhog saw their shadows today, so they’re predicting an early spring. But we haven’t even really had winter yet. Remember it was 50° and misty and rainy on Christmas Eve and Christmas, and we did have a few bits of snow here and there. Then we had the big … [Read more…]