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…]
When I made pickled zucchini, and we had an omelette with grated zucchini folded into the egg for Sunday brunch. Instead of eating it with tomato sauce on top, like the recipe suggests, we ate it with sungold tomatoes on the side. Today I made double chocolate zucchini bread for breakfast. And it will be … [Read more…]
I looked at Lottie & Doof the other day, and Tim called his catch-up post “Digest: recipe name and recipe name”. I was thinking more of a slideshow, except I didn’t take very good pictures of the weekend’s food enterprises, tacos with pulled pork and corn salsa, and Blueberry Muffins. And, oh yea, I froze … [Read more…]
Lamers, yes, but we still managed to do some fun things, and I cooked a lot. We saw two movies, neither of which was overwhelmingly good, but still entertaining. [portfolio_slideshow pagerpos=disabled size=large] On Friday to start off the long weekend, we went to see Our Kind of Traitor and then came home and ate assorted … [Read more…]
So many recipes are for those who are too busy to cook. Me, I’m not too busy to cook, but I’m too busy for writing. I feel like I’ve had some successes, made some tasty food, as the Penzy’s signs say, but that may or may not be apparent in the written version. Last Thursday … [Read more…]
Although I am sure my brother would say that it’s not a real holiday unless there’re potatoes. But it’s after 12:00 noon, and I am still in pajamas cooking, and I’ve made: 2 pies, rhubarb-cherry, based on my rhubarb-strawberry pie, with cherries in the amount I usually use of rhubarb, and the rhubarb the amount … [Read more…]