Cooking, Life, Books and Words — sometimes with recipes.
Just right for this weather. I got some old roast root veggies that were languishing in the fridge and about to reach their disposal date. First I stir fried broccoli stalks in olive oil (don’t…
Just testing out linking out to neat stuff on amazon.com. I have done it before but thought I’d try it again. So to the right is a link to the best movie the past two…
This is simplicity itself and looks and tastes great. Golden browned cubes of pure sweet vegetable pleasure. Healthy even! Roast Butternut Squash Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Get a butternut squash and peel it very…
If anyone tries any of these ‘recipes’ (“they’re more like guidelines, actually” [Captain Barbosa]) would you please put in a comment to let me know how they turned out, if you liked them and anything…
Spent the morning working at the Christmas Tree lot that gives some of the proceeds to the kids’ swim team in return for the parents’ volunteer labor. Lots of lifting, cutting and getting covered in…
Home again and ants are everywhere since the rainy season has started. There isn’t really anything for them to eat although they sense the sugar and hover around the container nervously hoping that it will…
As you may or may not know, Kennedy should NOT have told the world that he was a jelly donut, which is what ‘ich bin ein Berliner’ means. What he should have said was ‘ich…
Well – sometimes it seems like it. But actually this may have been the longest time since I last blogged. OK – I am going to miss out on winning NaNoWriMo. I have done 16,000…
Whew – big fortnight coming up. First I have until Wed night to get through this big horrible work project. Then Thurs and Friday is Thanksgiving. Then Saturday drive back down fom Sea Ranch where…
Big dinner tonight. Lots of people over and a lot of rather ambitious food. I did the baked chicken thing since there were so many kids. I also made spinach ricotta gnocci from Marcella Hazan’s…