{"id":1098,"date":"2016-09-29T21:35:30","date_gmt":"2016-09-30T02:35:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/?p=1098"},"modified":"2016-09-29T21:37:58","modified_gmt":"2016-09-30T02:37:58","slug":"first-cold-of-the-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/29\/first-cold-of-the-season\/","title":{"rendered":"First cold of the season"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Saturday morning, after Steve’s party, I woke up with a sore throat. Felt kind of flu-ish on Sunday and Monday, and wah lah by Wednesday evening, it had turned into a full blown gluggy runny nose sneezey head cold. But at least felt less like having the flu.<\/p>\n

I’ve been trying to get excited about fall food. I tried to submit the recipe for the squash and tomato gratin<\/a> I always seem to make in late September to a Food52 contest, only to discover that I had only ever submitted one recipe there before, and it was also for a squash dish, squash & goat cheese tart<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I went to Chicago Tuesday for our first CSO – Muti conducts Strauss & Bruckner<\/a>. It was a really good show, although the Bruckner is efffing long. I had a meeting in the morning, then I drove to Harvard and got the train. Worked the whole way down. I got in at about 3:30, and we were trying to plot some way for me to go up north and see John & Megan’s new apartment, and have a quick visit. John called me a little before 5:00, and said he was working at this gallery near the Gage on Michigan Ave., and he had his car, so I could meet hm, and we’d drive up to his place. All I could think about was how we’d just spend 45 minutes inching thru traffic then I’d have to get on the El back down for the symphony. So I said, “why don’t I meet you at the Athletic Club for a beer?” He allowed as how he’d rather do that. I texted my friend Kevin<\/a> who works nearby to see if he could join us, but he turned out to be in DC.<\/p>\n

Megan came too, so it was a nice visit, and just a few steps to Orchestra Hall.<\/p>\n

I foolishly drank a cup of coffee at intermission, so didn’t sleep all that well. But I made the 7:30 train, and had an egg sangwich for breakfast. Made it into the office by 11:30, and class went better then Monday, when, after planning for one lab all weekend, I decided to do something different at the last minute.<\/p>\n

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Egg sangwich on the train<\/p><\/div>\n

I had thawed out some shredded pork, and I bought a bottle of barbecue sauce. When I got home from work I mixed up the meat and the sauce and stuck it in the oven along with an acorn squash (that was my part of my take home from the cooking class<\/a> I taught about 2 weeks ago – I also got some broccoli and the potatoes I put on my demo focaccia<\/a> Sunday). I went for a little walk to return a library book, and by the time I got back, everything was ready. we ate the BBQ on rosemary focaccia that I made with the dough I brought back Sunday.<\/p>\n

I’m not doing too good on photographing food – here’s the paper from the muffin I had for breakfast at work and tonight’s dinner: sort of a riff on Colcannon, sauteed bok choy and scalloped potatoes with bacon. Greens and potatoes.<\/p>\n

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Muffin paper from the second to last morning glory muffin<\/p><\/div>\n

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Cheesy scalloped potatoes with bacon and stirfry bok choy<\/p><\/div>\n

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On Saturday morning, after Steve’s party, I woke up with a sore throat. Felt kind of flu-ish on Sunday and Monday, and wah lah by Wednesday evening, it had turned into a full blown gluggy runny nose sneezey head cold. But at least felt less like having the flu. I’ve been trying to get excited … [Read more…]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1100,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[13,114,93,113],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-ds83473gmail-com","4":"post-1098","6":"format-standard","7":"has-post-thumbnail","8":"category-blogpost","9":"post_tag-chicago","10":"post_tag-colds","11":"post_tag-pork","12":"post_tag-potatoes"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1098"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1107,"href":"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1098\/revisions\/1107"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}