This week things started getting busier again, with in-person stuff I had to do, on top of online meetings. I went to Memorial Library twice for Friends of the Libraries book donations, and on Friday I went over to Goodman and volunteered at the food pantry. I took hardly any pictures of food or flowers … [Read more…]
I, like everyone else, am feeling uncertain about how to emerge from isolation and rejoin un-masked society, as the pandemic seems to be ending. The last couple weeks I’ve been feeling really awkward – like heading out for a walk in the morning thinking, “is it OK I’m doing this? I must look weird … … [Read more…]
I made two Gabrielle Hamilton recipes today, and defrosted my upright deep freezer. Usually I do that Memorial Day weekend, but this year it was too cold, so I waited until this weekend, when it’s actually a little too hot. About 90° out there now. One of the Gabrielle Hamilton recipes was Hamilton via Smitten … [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…]
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…]
And other UN-photographed food. I wanted to make this Dorie Greenspan cake that got printed in the NYT mag while Rach was here, because it has no dairy, and you can put berries in it, and I had a lot of blueberries. It’s Roman ring cake, a ciambella. It turned out pretty much as Dorie … [Read more…]
I’ve been going around in a black cloud for most of this week, worrying about money, primarily. And I know, I know, these are all problems of privilege – I am fortunate to have all this stuff to worry about. I remember being at the courthouse for something related to my second foster kid, with … [Read more…]
On Monday night I walked up the hill to dinner at the Chancellor’s house, and a butterfly landed on the sidewalk near me. It reminded me of an image I’d gotten from the website I’d just reviewed for the Scout Report – digitized covers of the Queenslander, a weekly magazine supplement to the Brisbane Courier … [Read more…]
I took the day off on Friday and we took the train to Chicago – driving to Harvard IL to get it. Don’t even get me started on how our evil governor deprived us of high speed rail, because it would have cost us Wisconsin taxpayers too much, and instead we paid for trains we … [Read more…]
I normally get my CSA veggie box every other week, but because of rescheduling for TIFF, I got three in a row: Sept. 21 and 28, and October 5. Here’re the veggie lists, courtesy Tipi Produce: Sept. 21 Golden beets with greens, 1 bunch Broccoli, 1 or 2 nice heads Winter squash, 1 medium or … [Read more…]