And to use up local veggies & other ingredients. Recently I feel like I’ve been keeping the fridge emptier, buying smaller amounts, not having too many leftovers, trying out recipes that I’m interested in, making food that pleases me, and Mark will eat. Like that cookbook I have, Small Victories. ‘Course, no CSA this year … [Read more…]
I feel like a broken record, repeating myself, but I’m still trying to adjust to this retirement thing. I wish I had more energy and I wish I slept better. I’ve been overeating and I think it’s because there’s a time during the day, usually about 4:00pm, when I just feel like I need a … [Read more…]
Tuesday began the transition from cookie season to holiday season. It was the first day in weeks when I didn’t eat a single cookie … well, except for 2 pieces of the layered white chocolate peppermint bark. But that can almost be considered a refresher rather than a cookie. Instead I ate too much of … [Read more…]
So I have been cooking, honest, and have even been feeling like there have been some of those tiny victories, using up leftovers, making tasty things that everyone eats, learning how to use the new oven, I just have not been taking many pictures of the food. If food has been made and eaten and … [Read more…]
Normally, at this time on Sunday, I’d be getting ready to go walk Mark’s 10,000 step loop that includes coffee at Colectivo, but the AFS kid needs to be dropped at a friend’s house at 9:45 and that’s only partway into the walk, so instead I’m listening, sorta watching, this Wilco/Sleater-Kinney show I bought, they’re … [Read more…]
And ending it late, I guess – I started writing this post on Thursday and am only finishing now on Tuesday back-to-work day. — The other day in an email my brother said I work too hard. So today (Thursday) I decided to start the July 4 weekend early. I am taking Friday off, and … [Read more…]
So, last weekend, I only wrote about chicken, but I actually cooked some other things. On April Fool’s day, I burned a perfectly good batch of sourdough. I set a timer and went upstairs to work and when the time went off I thought I’d go check the bread after I finished an email, and … [Read more…]
Like I said, last Saturday I roasted a biiiig chicken for Passover, and I anticipated a bunch of other dishes made with meat from that bird. This has indeed come to pass. We’ve had chicken sandwiches twice. The first time we both had our sandwiches on brioche rolls I bought at Whole Foods, you can … [Read more…]
So this week, I started writing this post before yoga same as last week, but [thankfully] did not descend into fatness crisis again and actually stuck with and enjoyed the yoga class. I got started on taxes, sort of. At Christmas I never did boxing day and cleaned up all the papers on my desk. … [Read more…]
My first day of winter break started with various cooking adventures to keep using up my produce from my CSA Thanksgiving box. Specifically, wilting coleslaw and roasting beets. Mark was going for his regular long loop walk, and I said I’d go too, and peel off at Whole Foods, because we needed lettuce and sour … [Read more…]