Enervated (one of my mom’s favorite words). Spending too much time sopping up water in the basement. Saturday night we got 3+ inches in something like 3 hours. Quietly freaking about recent political news, although, since Mark is in quarantine upstairs after he tested positive for Covid Friday morning, I’m downstairs with the cats. Which … [Read more…]
We went on another trip to Chicago, an overnight for a Friday evening symphony and there was no school that day, so our exchange student came with. We stayed at a Fairfield Inn to get a pull out couch for the kid. We did a bunch of things we had not done since pandemic, like … [Read more…]
This week is the Ides of March, feared by Caesar, I guess, but not me. On Monday I took a picture of some heart ornaments in a tree that look kind of bruised, like how all of ours feel now. It’s Phil Lesh’s & John’s birthdays. Phil is 81. Phil’s kids and extended family band, … [Read more…]
We had all round food, well, and almost round food, for brunch today. Pepper & egg fritatta, sweet potato quesadillas. And leftover sticky buns frozen since Christmas – they were the almost round. And what did we eat the rest of the week? On Monday I made turkey divan with broccoli and cheese sauce and … [Read more…]
As I’ve complained recently, I just haven’t been photographing all the food I’ve been cooking for just the two of us. And, we’re getting to that time of year when it’s too dark in the evening to take good, natural light, food shots. I’ve been having some successes and some failures, too. So in the … [Read more…]
Last night I came home from work and turned on the radio to listen to NPR while I cooked dinner (fried rice, with shredded pork & chicken, sweet peppers, carrots, scallions, peas, garlic & ginger. Just realized I forgot the egg). And entered the Twilight Zone. NPR had decided to devote coverage to a press … [Read more…]
My friend Anna had a significant birthday back in July. I sent her a card saying I’d bake her the birthday treat of her choice and she chose banana cream pie. Delivery worked out to be the Friday of Labor Day weekend, and the day after the new student orientation for the on-campus students at … [Read more…]
Since 2010, I’ve been organizing an in-residence orientation, or Bootcamp, for our new incoming class of online graduate students. Bootcamp takes place during the last week of summer classes at UW-Madison, which always fall on the first full week of August. One of my colleagues has started saying, “Bootcamp ruins the summer” – and it’s … [Read more…]
Squash, Pumpkin Pies (with marshmallow fluff rosettes, and pumpkin s’more pie with a chocolate cookie crust and marshmallow fluff meringue on top), wet leaves, and my jack-o-lantern pumpkin that I have yet to carve. Well, it’s only the 28th of October. [portfolio_slideshow pagerpos=disabled size=full]
So I’ve been feeling guilty for not writing and not photographing food and feeling like I must’ve never been this bad before, but I was looking at last fall, and I didn’t even take a picture of the pies I made for Pie Palooza, which (it says on the website) were Gluten-free Corn & Pepper … [Read more…]