{"id":3116,"date":"2018-03-24T21:18:35","date_gmt":"2018-03-25T02:18:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/?p=3116"},"modified":"2018-03-26T21:03:01","modified_gmt":"2018-03-27T02:03:01","slug":"6-59-broccoli-and-marching-for-our-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/24\/6-59-broccoli-and-marching-for-our-lives\/","title":{"rendered":"$6.59 Broccoli, and Marching for our lives"},"content":{"rendered":"

Or, the weekend, from the normal annoying-ness of middle class life, to more inspirational activities.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

First I blew up a website by installing conflicting plugins. Then I blew up a Pyrex baking pan, by putting it on the oven floor, and heating it and dumping in water to create steam for the rosemary focaccia I was baking. I turned my spritz bottle into a yoga mat cleaning solution spray and have yet to acquire a new unflavored bottle for bread baking. As I was cleaning up the glass I recalled that recipes generally specify a metal pan for the steam.<\/p>\n

Saturday started off well enough. I made a loaf of this King Arthur Flour recipe of the year for 2018 banana bread<\/a>, and it turned out quite tasty. I used half white and half whole wheat flour and toasted pecans and chocolate chips mixed in. Next I want to try it all whole wheat.<\/p>\n

Emma’s mom Linda came over and we went to the Madison March for our Lives. There were some good speakers: one of the high school student march organizers, Stephanie Trask, and a social studies teacher from Memorial High School, and a resource teacher from Black Hawk Middle School<\/a>, one of the poorer schools in Madison where 70% of the students are categorized as low-income, who pointed out that it’s not just mass shootings – he sees kids whose lives are affected by gun violence every day<\/em>, and Senator Tammy Baldwin. We got cold and came home after listening to a kid sing, and before the last speaker, Representative Mark Pocan<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Linda had an impressively engineered sandwich board sign – I should’ve taken a picture – it said “Wisconsin grandma and I vote” on the front and “Parkland in November I have your back” on the back. Mine was more of a cardboard and tape affair:<\/p>\n

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And someone took a really great pic of my friend Aimee with her sign:<\/p>\n

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The news said there were 2500 people. Pretty good for the first Saturday of spring break for both UW-Madison and the Madison Schools. 800,000 in DC. Almost a million, and I think that’s where some of the spring breakers went.<\/p>\n

After marching, I came back home, ate more banana bread and some cheese toast (I had a grilled cheese with ski queen<\/a>, that Norwegian caramel cheese, at Little Goat<\/a> a few weeks back, and I’ve been putting it on everything since. Thin slices on toast with a hard boiled egg – yum.) I did a little getting tax stuff together, then Mark and I went for a walk and got a cup of coffee. The tax preparer had already closed at 1:00, and getting the taxes done still requires a trip out there, because I don’t have all the documents in electrinic form to go in their security online dropbox. I don’t think I can get there now till Thursday.<\/p>\n

I had a haircut at 4:15, and then went to the co-op for groceries. I noticed something about broccoli crowns on the register when I checked out and thought that’s funny, I thought I got a regular bunch of broccoli. It wasn’t until I got home that I saw I’d been charged $6.59 for that bunch of broccoli, that should have been under $2.50 – the broccoli crowns were $4.99\/lb. but regular broccoli was on sale for $1.79\/lb. that day. So do I drive 10 miles with the register tape and burn all that gas for my refund? Or do I just suck it up? I did the latter.<\/p>\n

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I made that expensive broccoli into a chicken divan casserole, from a Cook’s Illustrated Cover & Bake book<\/a>. It was tasty but not ready until like 8:00 PM. And additional annoying-ness – I broke my fancy butter dish while I was scooping out the butter for the roux.<\/p>\n

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Al and Emma got it for me – it’s from a local ceramicist<\/a>, so I have to either special order it from her (I tried sending her a request on her website) or find it on Etsy, or a local dealer. The Co-op is supposed to be her dealer but I don’t recall seeing her stuff there.<\/p>\n

Then Sunday we got up and went to Chicago, to see a Russian pianist play<\/a> a recital at 3:00, at Chicago Symphony Hall. We walked to the West Loop for dinner at a place called Bar Siena<\/a> that we had passed on the way to Little Goat multiple times. We had potato skins and a chopped salad and pizza. I think I am going to have to start developing my definitive recipe for chopped salad.<\/p>\n

But I want to keep thinking about the march for a while longer.<\/p>\n

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Madison March for our Lives, 3\/24\/2018<\/p><\/div>\n

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