It’s kinda hard to know what is happening … Since we live in a country, and a state, with no consistent pandemic policies, stuff’s open, stuff’s closed, a fall spike (or even August) of Covid-19 cases is predicted, and there are lots of headlines now about numbers of sick people going up. Last week, University … [Read more…]
Let’s go day by day. On Wednesday my next door neighbors got a new furnace and air conditioner installed. The air conditioner unit is in between our houses, where it’s still a muddy trench from the garage construction – the landscapers aren’t able to schedule our reconstruction work as yet due to the pandemic. Only … [Read more…]
So lets see, where did we leave off? looks like last Wednesday. I, like everyone else, have been cooking a lot, but un-like myself, have not been taking many pictures of the food. I’ve been invited to two pandemic cooking facebook groups, coronavirus lockdown food show! that I joined, and another one I have not … [Read more…]
New car, practicing my puff pastry for the class I’m teaching next Sunday, and a trip to the opera. I’m afraid that this first batch won’t puff enough because I had the butter too soft. You’re supposed to grate it frozen but that sounded painful to me, plus my kitchen’s been really cold this winter … [Read more…]
I was just sure I must’ve written something with this title before; looks like it was hashtag winterblahs in 2014, and winter blahs in 2013. Nothing on the newer blog for winter blahs, but I found Still January from 2018. Anyways, I’m feeling frozen and not in a good way – sluggish, like my metabolism … [Read more…]
Seems like every morning this week I woke up at 4:30 and couldn’t go back to sleep. So, I’ve definitely been a bit draggy. I guess it’s because of the time change, fall back – but I like that Sunday with an extra hour (that was just last week) so much that I’m not too … [Read more…]
Mostly I was on a tear to use up anything that wouldn’t keep while we’re at TIFF, and get all CSA veggies processed. On Friday I was going to make pizza, and I left some pizza dough rising in the fridge before I left for work. As it turned out Mark didn’t get back from … [Read more…]
I’m in some kind of long dry spell, not inspired to take many pictures or write, and barely even any time to cook. Here’s a few pictures, because somehow the last few weeks I’m incapable of doing anything else. The featured image is book sale discards. I am hopeful that I will get better when … [Read more…]
Monday I made a pie. Tuesday Mark and I ate some of it for dinner, with ice cream. Thursday I took the last of it to work, and brought home the empty pie dish. Wednesday I made a test batch of Mexican chocolate rice pudding that was the dessert for the Eat Smart in Mexico … [Read more…]
In the continuing saga of the broken AC, first the AC guy came Monday morning. It was astonishingly fast after I had called them, but he couldn’t fix it – he said it’s an electrical problem (cost: $125). The electrician came Tuesday morning – I had a moment of being in a Firesign Theatre album, … [Read more…]