All the stuff I did do this weekend … and all the stuff I didn’t do. And, well not even all, because, of course, there’s stuff I didn’t even know about that I didn’t do. It was one of those weekends with about a million things going on. Friday I went to the Rousers geezer … [Read more…]
Originally the plan was that I would cook John a birthday dinner in Chicago. I had even sent a set of menus for them to select from. But then it turned out that he was coming to Madison on his birthday instead. And then it further transpired that his friend Jake, who has the same … [Read more…]
So this has been a week of not very much cooking, although of course we ate. I had been in Chicago over the weekend and I thawed out some enchilada casserole with ground turkey and black beans, in case Belana & Mark might eat it while I was gone. Which of course they didn’t, so … [Read more…]
Take today, fer instance: I went out for a walk, and it’s a beautiful sunny day – but that just filled me with dread and grumpiness. Because it’s FUCKING FEBRUARY in Wisconsin and it’s not supposed to be 50°. Or Friday: After reading friends and friends of friends facebook posts about how they’re dealing with … [Read more…]
So I guess if this is a cooking blog I should talk about food at least a little. Friday I met Mark at a retirement party for somebody we both used to work with, although Mark much longer than me. After, with Jane & Jonathan, we went and had dinner at Graft, a new-ish small … [Read more…]
I’d wanted to make this Sam Sifton chicken tetrazzini from the NYT mag ever since it was published last fall, even though it’s not like any tetrazzini I’m familiar with, that usually involve creamy white sauce and crumbs on top. It includes a chili-based sauce with dried red chiles and chicken broth and milk and … [Read more…]
So I guess yesterday was the first ordinary Sunday in January, because New Year’s Day was Sunday this year. I got up and made cherry muffins and a few rhubarb ones. As I suspected, the rhubarb ones aren’t very pretty. Then I went out to the fabric store and got a bunch of pink fleece … [Read more…]
Just so you know – I have still been having a life, I just haven’t managed to write about it much, recently. I blame work – I was totally overloaded this fall semester, 3 classes instead of 2. I finished grading at 2:48 PM on Christmas eve. (Although I think I was grading on Christmas … [Read more…]
We had 20 people at 2 big tables. Here’s the menu with notes: Apps – Goat cheese & ratatouille & baguette – a small container of ratatouille from the freezer, that I put in a baking dish, made a well where I put in a small hunk of a goat cheese log, baked, and poured … [Read more…]
On Friday, I baked a pumpkin pie when I got home from work, so we could eat it after the symphony for a late night dessert. I used the leftover pumpkin I got to take home after the baking thousands of pies for Goodman Community Center, the weekend before the election. On Saturday, I traded … [Read more…]