We left Madison on Friday for a combined family weekend in DC, and trip to Charlotteville VA for a conference for me. Now I’m back at DC’s National Airport for the trip home. I rented a car and drove from Washington down to Charlotteville, and it was a pretty drive through rolling Virginia countryside, with … [Read more…]
When I checked the weather this morning, there were thunderstorm warnings, and there’d been a good downpour and lighting and thunder in the night, too. I went for a walk, and it could of been August. It was about 64°, misty and humid – I was too hot wearing a sweatshirt with 3/4 length sleeves … [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…]
Is my tagline for the weekend, anyways. Or maybe that should be “seeking inspiration”. Friday I worked until 5:00, recording a lecture for one of my classes that I think I’m gonna do over, anyways. Came home and made a loaf of garlic bread with our German exchange student, so that she could take it … [Read more…]
Friday afternoon I had just finished saving all three of the syllabi I have due on Monday, and was wondering if it was time to check with John & Megan if they were still coming to Madison this weekend as planned, when John called to say they were not coming – because they had gotten … [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…]
… is kind of my new phrase, when stuff goes awry, when I’ve had just about enough, with apologies to all the Pete’s I know, although I think at least one of them would like being the epigram of gone awry. As in, “Oh for Pete’s sake”, I have been trying to write this thing … [Read more…]
Seen from the front porch Saturday morning; it got pretty hot later in the day but was still nice and cool at 7:00 or so when I saw these dewy leaves. [portfolio_slideshow pagerpos=disabled size=medium] I had avocado toast with radish leaf aioli and fruit salad for Saturday breakfast after we biked to the Farmers’ Market. … [Read more…]
We turned our Memorial Day weekend into a mini film fest, and saw three movies. Friday – The Lobster We really wanted to see this at TIFF, but it was one of the movies that only was shown twice, so too hard to get tickets. I liked it, but it was a real film fest … [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…]