I got a new cooking mag yesterday and all the food looked really garish to me. Like the cover with this drippy red cranberry bread, that could just as easily be a meatloaf. And one of the “dazzling desserts” the cover refers to is this Croquembouche (tower of baby cream puffs, with spun sugar wrapped … [Read more…]
This one’s in DC, and while attendance is higher than last summer’s conference held in New Orleans (that I skipped, with the happy result that I got to see the Madison fireworks that are always before July 4, when I’m almost always at conference) it’s down for a DC conference. Normally conferences held in either … [Read more…]
Or maybe I’m just having a bad week. Monday I put the first scratches on my car. I was pulling into a parking spot at my campus ramp, like I’ve done a million times, and there was this terrible scratching noise, and voilà. The true horror of it is look how many different pieces of … [Read more…]
Man, this is a week, and it’s only Wednesday. Sunday we went to a memorial for the husband of Mark’s former boss, who died suddenly at the age of 45. He’d worked in a variety of positions around the University, related to evaluation primarily, and had just been made Assistant Dean for Academic Analysis, Planning, … [Read more…]
Starting my Saturday with a little freezing. The election is Tuesday and I attended the Saturday morning training where we pick up our giant totes of all the stuff we need, and I drove because the Chief Inspector, and my neighbor, that I work with, didn’t have a car that day. She wanted to park … [Read more…]
Sorry, I kind of left you hanging about the lump I found on my shoulder, last Saturday. I went to the doctor, and the verdict is it’s arthritis. I guess it’s sort of like the bunion I got scraped off from my left big toe, back in the early aughts, 2003 or so, a lump … [Read more…]
Sleepy, and my head hurts, and feeling like I haven’t done anything creative. Long ago (2007), I did an April is the Cruelest Month dinner. I was into savory pithiviers for awhile; here’s the recipe. And wait isn’t this supposed to be a food blog? I made cinnamon scones on Saturday morning. They had cream … [Read more…]
Kind of a different one for me, because I didn’t make a Christmas dinner, or a Christmas brunch either for that matter. Nothing like last year’s $159 Christmas roast that looks like we ate with Yorkshire pudding and three veg: broccoli, purple cabbage and creamed spinach. Here’s what happened. There just weren’t very many of … [Read more…]
It was kind of like watching a tennis match. On Friday, Belana’s parents were supposed to arrive at Chicago O’Hare at about 2:00 in the afternoon. Belana and her friend Kiera decided to take an early bus Chicago, so they could have a couple of hours downtown, then ride the blue line out to the … [Read more…]
I’m pretty sure the movie version with Audrey Hepburn as Eliza, and Rex Harrison as Henry Higgins, was my father’s birthday movie in December of 1964. We had a family tradition (that I mostly upheld with my kids) that after the age of 7, no more big birthday parties with lots of little kids – … [Read more…]