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…]
I didn’t light any candles, as I have done in the past. I did make sure to eat broccoli and crackers and strong cheese, and drink white wine. When my brother and I exchanged emails about what we each were eating for Oma’s yahrzeit he said, “rye bread and Riesling” and I said, “aged Gouda … [Read more…]
And other UN-photographed food. I wanted to make this Dorie Greenspan cake that got printed in the NYT mag while Rach was here, because it has no dairy, and you can put berries in it, and I had a lot of blueberries. It’s Roman ring cake, a ciambella. It turned out pretty much as Dorie … [Read more…]
… or week and almost a half, really. So not sure what’s going on with me. It’s been a 2-concert, holiday week, and lots of good things are arriving at the Farmers Market and in my CSA box, and I’ve been cooking them, but I haven’t written about any of it for the last 10 … [Read more…]
I got a CSA box on Thursday that included: a quart of really ripe strawberries a giant Napa cabbage – almost 3 pounds Zucchini and summer squash, almost 4 pounds Broccoli, 2 medium stalks One green bell and one green frying pepper One kohlrabi a bunch of scallions, two healthy stalks of curly basil 5 … [Read more…]
So, OK. On Monday, I got back from helping John sell the car and it started raining, so instead of biking I drove across town to the community center to see what I could make for the food pantry breakfast on Tuesday morning. Despite my hours of worry and dread, and the car smoking and … [Read more…]
Last Thursday, the last day of the new online students’ on-campus orientation, I got a big, summer-y CSA box. That’s a few green beans, “silver” and green cucumbers, something like 2 1/3 pounds of tomatoes, bunches of basil and leaf lettuce, an onion two little melons, and 10 ears of corn. After I brought all … [Read more…]
I can’t decide if last week was the last week of summer, or if it’s really this one. It’s a late Labor Day, Sept. 5, and the high school kids have 2 days of school beforehand, but the college kids don’t go back until after. Either way, the school year is cranking up – I’ve … [Read more…]
On Sunday morning I got up and we had finally trapped a couple of raccoons. I think the trap slamming shut waked me at 4:30 AM, and when I went out a little before 7:00, there they were. Note how, in less than three hours, the one on the left – the mean one – … [Read more…]
Today I’m sixty-one. We spent a couple of days in Door County, and I came back first; Mark stayed – so I had the house to myself on my birthday eve. I woke up with just me & the fluffy kitty, and tried to get motivated to go out for a walk. That didn’t happen, … [Read more…]