I guess Saturday was the first day of fall, the Autumnal Equinox. I did a bunch of Fall-ish cooking things, including dealing with my 25 pounds of plum tomatoes that I biked up to the Square and purchased on Wednesday morning. In the freezer, I now have a quart of herbed, chunky tomato sauce, one … [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…]
Our friends the Waisman’s have a farm just outside of Madison where they raise a few animals and a bunch of children and asparagus. I went to visit to see their new piglets – next year’s pork on the hoof – and to bring David a book, and also to share some recipe testing results … [Read more…]
Or, the weekend, from the normal annoying-ness of middle class life, to more inspirational activities. Friday was evidently my day to blow things up. I was working at home because my last three (out of 24) student advising appointments were by phone. First I blew up a website by installing conflicting plugins. Then I blew … [Read more…]
During the holidays, I was sure that M.L.K. Day was going to be January 22nd in 2018, because UW-Madison classes start on Tuesday, January 23rd. But, no, M.L.K. Day is today, January 15th, King’s actual birthday – he’d be 89 this year – and for some reason not many of us understand, related to regularizing … [Read more…]
Normally on Sundays, I wake up and fret and feel guilty and try to decide how long to stay in bed (which is also spending time with Mark) vs. making brunch vs. getting some exercise vs. working vs. doing something creative … Today it’s windy and blustery outside, finally being appropriately autumnal, so I decided … [Read more…]
The first week was characterized by heat, tomatoes, and Rach was here. Wednesday was Rosh Hashanah and I made challah. I got my annual CSA 25-pound box of tomatoes, and made sauce and blanched and diced and froze a lot of them and also made four trays of oven dried tomatoes. Rach and I bought … [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…]
Even the kitty cat slept in on Memorial Day. So here’s the plan. We had a nice little driveway party on Sunday, and we finally lucked out with the weather. I only took a pic of my beer; Megan got the best shot of one of the neighbor kids running down the driveway to the … [Read more…]
Sunday didn’t start off so great. I stepped in hair ball cat puke first thing, heading for the thermastat to see how cold it was, and if I should turn the heat back on. (It was 65° in the house, 35° outside, so heat did go back on, and it’s running now Monday morning while … [Read more…]