The title of this post comes from the fact that the Thursday after the ALA conference, we went back to Chicago for a day trip to see a play and my lunch that day is below. The restaurant calls it “Wild Mushroom Teriyaki Bowl”, green vegetable & sticky rice stir-fry, citrus ponzu, cashew, garden herb … [Read more…]
Since we’ve been back from New York, we’ve done a few cultural things, Chicago Symphony, Madison Symphony, oh, and we went to see The Devil wears Prada 2 on the day of the Met Gala, May 4th this year. So we had a whole day of watching fashion and wretched excess. And I did very … [Read more…]
We had a half day (Sunday), a full day, and a morning, plus two hotel nights, in the big city. We did all the things: saw a Broadway play, a funny musical; walked through Times Square and Central Park (got lost in Central Park – seems to be a tradition for me) and the length … [Read more…]
First, getting there. We left from the Madison airport, where they have toddler seats where you can strap your toddler in while you pee, or use them for your bag if you don’t happen to have a toddler handy at the moment. We changed planes in Chicago to fly to Albany. And had a typical … [Read more…]
Last Saturday after the last indoor Farmers Market (that we usually drive to) Mark and I took a walk and I got my annual pictures of hellebore. In someone else’s garden, I am not a gardener. Friday, almost a week later, I took some pictures of somebody else’s daffodils. The weather’s been pretty typically April, … [Read more…]
A trip to Chicago for two nights instead of one. Valentines Day was a Saturday this year, kicking off the weekend. The followng Tuesday was Mardi Gras, the last day of carnival, and Election Day, and Lunar New year, the start of a couple of weeks of festivities for those who celebrate. Tuesday was also … [Read more…]
We spent last Friday, Halloween, in Chicago. We went down for a double-header, Chicago Symphony in the afternoon, and David Byrne at night. And now it’s only Wednesday, but it feels like it’s already Friday. Maybe because of the time change Saturday night. Maybe because Jasper came on Monday this week, so that I could … [Read more…]
I’m still having this problem where I forget to photograph food. I think it’s partially because I feel like the pictures of, for example, a pan of scones from 2025 looks almost the same as the one from 2020. And also because it’s the time of year where it’s too dark to get a good … [Read more…]
Friday we saw four movies and all of them were quite good, plus we ate delicious upscale Chinese at another Chef Zach recommendation, Sunny’s Chinese. The first movie of the day was The Christophers, directed by Stephen Soderburgh, about an aging artist Julian Sklar (Ian McKellen) whose messy life seemed to me to be similar … [Read more…]
TIFF (Toronto International Film Fest) is celebrating its 50th this year, and we are here for the 7th time. We got in in the later afternoon Friday, taking the train from the airport which was super easy, then transferring to the subway with our suitcases, which was less easy, because of all the stairs. The … [Read more…]