This one’s for everyone, including me, who cooks dinner most nights. And if you’re like me, I’m sure you sometimes wonder why you do it, but most of the time it’s just so ingrained that doubt hardly enters. Your internal monologue, like mine, is largely pondering what’s in the fridge, what can you make with … [Read more…]
By which I mean here I am living relatively comfortably, but each new headline is another horror. Trump just says this shit and people believe him. Yesterday I kept seeing pictures of the east wing of the Whitehouse being torn down for Trump’s Mar-a-Lago style ball room. Where were the preservationists? I heard a couple … [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…]
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…]
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…]