Just so you know – I have still been having a life, I just haven’t managed to write about it much, recently. I blame work – I was totally overloaded this fall semester, 3 classes instead of 2. I finished grading at 2:48 PM on Christmas eve. (Although I think I was grading on Christmas … [Read more…]
Well that was fun, but now I don’t feel like doing anything. On Sunday afternoon, I did a cooking demo at this new community event space, Threshold. I made focaccia with vegetable toppings, half potato-poblano and half delicata squash rings. [portfolio_slideshow pagerpos=disabled size=large] And, this was the Sunday at the end of a week of … [Read more…]
Looks like last year, I wrote about Mother’s Day on the Monday after, so I guess I might as well continue the tradition. And, I’d like to take a little farther back look into the weekend’s activities. On Saturday, I hosted a benefit for Forward Theater, kind of a progressive dinner, starting at my house, … [Read more…]
I’m trying to remember which night last week I made it. Here’s what was in it: Leftover Passover lemon-almond cake; about half the cake, that had got really crumbly; About 8 or 9 pine nut macaroons that had been in a bag in the freezer since cookie season. I did something wrong with them last … [Read more…]
On the last night of January 2016 I had a Dinner at DebS soup dinner. It was a nice, smallish group – 11 10 adults and one kid, counting me and Megan. Natasha’s husband stayed home with their son, who’d fallen asleep, and she came with their daughter and to-go containers to take home food … [Read more…]
I started writing this on Sunday – I had some kind of idea about writing about weekend cooking – but here it is Tuesday and still not done. Not even not done; not even close. I’ll see if I can remember at least what we ate: On Friday, I had a normal work day – … [Read more…]
Our first meeting of the day Monday included breakfast. It was a pretty good breakfast, just a little too early in the morning for me. I took a half slice of French toast, a little 100-calorie cup of Yoplait peach yogurt (that was too gloppy and tasted mostly of the color orange rather than peach, … [Read more…]