I made a batch of the Smitten Kitchen brown butter rice krispie treats, and the marshmallows were getting a bit old and sticky, so I ate a few.<\/p>\n
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I also peeled the four ears of corn I still had in the basement fridge, and cut the kernels off the cobs, and made a half batch, 2 jars, of corn salsa.<\/p>\n
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I biked over to get the veggie box, and by then it was almost time to get set up for the class meetings. It was not a good zoom night. First I had to reinstall zoom to get it to connect. I think it was because I launch zoom from my account on the University website, since they license it for me, but then it has to open the desktop app, and I had just updated, plus I have a personal zoom, too, so it got confused. So the first session started about 10 minutes late. Then I forgot to record the second session.<\/p>\n
In between I came downstairs to see what was happening down here, and they’d decided to order a taco kit from Pasquales. That turned out to be a pretty astonishing amount of food. I don’t think I’ll be making the leftover brisket into quesadillas to serve with corn salsa – I think we’ll be eating leftover tacos for our Tex-Mex fix. I think maybe brisket shepherds pie, instead.<\/p>\n
Speaking of Rosh Hashanah, here’s the challah.<\/p>\n
Over achiever rising challah dough<\/p><\/div>\n
Egg washed & ready to bake<\/p><\/div>\n
The round one<\/p><\/div>\n
The long one<\/p><\/div>\n
Just out of the oven<\/p><\/div>\n
Going back to the saga of Thursday, I thought maybe I’d have a glass of wine after class, but instead I just ate. Mark was putting away the taco leftovers when I came down, and said they’d really liked the rice Krispie treats. When everything was cleared away and Mark had gone upstairs, I sat down with my book, and finished the old bag of chips with the tomato salsa<\/a> I made over the weekend. I mean, Mark bought a new bag of chips, plus the taco kit came with its own baggie of chips, so they never even opened the new bag – it was a public service for me to eat up the old. I also had 3 of the rice Krispie treats, and then kitty and I sat on the sun room couch and I ate a bowl of cereal (well, a cup really, this Raison Bran Crunch in cups<\/a> that’s really sweet, that I brought home from the food pantry. I bought some buttermilk today, so maybe I can make the last three cups into muffins), and we listened to my friend Jenny on Marketplace<\/a>. She owns a toystore on the Upper West Side, and was included in Marketplace’s my pandemic economy ongoing feature. She said I’ve got a store full of toys and I’m staying optimistic. Love.<\/p>\n Speaking of books, I’ve been re-reading Stewart O’Nan’s Emily books. I think I told you I read the newest one, Henry, Himself<\/a> (scroll all the waaay down). I discovered that I bought the first one as an ebook, Wish You Were Here<\/a>, so I read that, and I got the middle one, Emily, Alone<\/a> as an ebook from the library, and am almost done with that one. Being kind of amazed at how little I remember from reading both books like 10 years ago. I think I like Emily the best because it’s more in Pittsburgh, and every place she goes, I can picture. Phipps Conservatory, Homewood Cemetary, that she visits in May and feels a little funny that one of the veterans organizations, like the VFW, has put a little flag on her husband’s grave – I felt the same when they did that for my Dad and Mom’s<\/a>.\u00a0 And the zoo and the Highland Park Bridge, and the driver’s test track on Washington Boulevard that they turned into a bicycle track. Henry took their kids there to test, my Dad took me and my brother. Took me three tries to get my license but that\u2019s another story.<\/p>\n We decided to have the brisket and apple noodle Kugel and challah Rosh Hashanah dinner on Tuesday, to sort of keep our holidays separate – Labor Day was really the first night of Rosh Hashanah. So, on Monday, we had hot dogs and potato salad and coleslaw, out on the deck.<\/p>\n My hot dog, with ample corn relish<\/p><\/div>\n On Tuesday after Rosh Hashanah dinner, after I wedged the little pod of soap into the dishwasher and hit start, I really looked at the bag, and discovered that the soap pods, of which I had already used at least 6 or 7, were actually laundry soap, not dishwasher soap. I left the machine starting up and carried the bag to the basement to put with all the other laundry stuff, thinking “well, it hasn’t hurt anything the last six times” … but by the time I got back to the kitchen, I hit cancel\/drain, and removed the laundry pod. It had already started to dissolve, and I had to scoop it out with a spoon. I put the spoon into the dishwasher, rinsed my hands, and went up to Mark’s and got some real dishwasher soap.<\/p>\n Maybe I get that glass of wine tonight, it is Friday afterall.<\/p>\n
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