Tonight for dinner, I tried a recipe out of Grandma Harper’s Panhellenic Cookbook: Meats. I had originally started looking at the “Ground Beef and Pasta” dishes, and really wanted to try some that Erna had marked as “//good”, but we didn’t have all the ingredients. We did, however, have all the ingredients (including our garden) [...]
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Recipes
Posted in Food, tagged grandma, old recipes on 12 Aug 2008 | 1 Comment »
After a frustrating day at work*, there’s nothing like having a nice glass of local wine, while having a light dinner** while sitting at the patio table***, and then enjoying some easy-to-make, non-bagged microwave popcorn. Seriously. I love this popcorn maker.
*the file/course I was working on got corrupted three times, causing lots of rework to [...]
Om nom nom nom
Posted in Food, House and Home, tagged garden on 2 May 2008 | No Comments »
Mmm… I had the first two pea pods from our garden today (I planted a bunch of sugar snap peas). And there’s lots more on the way- the pot in the front of the house has 3 pea vines, which are flowering. Also in that pot- our “Early Girl” tomato plant, with at least 6 [...]
Cheap ice cream!
Posted in Food, Yum on 29 Apr 2008 | 1 Comment »
No more free scoop night, but Baskin Robbins does have 31ยข night tomorrow!
Mary, Mary, quite contrary
Posted in Food, House and Home, tagged garden, peas on 17 Apr 2008 | 1 Comment »
We’ve got peas!
This morning, when I went to water the backyard peas from the first pea planting I did this spring, I noticed a bunch of the flowers that had been present when we left on our trip were gone, and peas were in their places! I didn’t kill them!
Post walk
Posted in Food, tagged San Francisco on 13 Apr 2008 | No Comments »
We just went downstairs and ate at our hotel’s restaurant after our walk(s). It was really good, I had salmon and TCB, halibut. The veggies were especially tasty, a mix of long pieces of yellow squash, carrots and asparagus. We got our hotel through a really great Hotwire deal, over 50% per night for the [...]
Friday
Posted in Food, Photog, Team, tagged city, San Francisco, SIOP on 12 Apr 2008 | 1 Comment »
Friday, while TCB was at conference, I wandered around Union Square. Unenticed by shopping (whoo), I strolled about Yerba Buena Gardens (where I did, indeed, enjoy a free outdoor opera concert) and then, unable to locate the Cartoon Art Museum (I didn’t look very hard, since I hadn’t brought my map and couldn’t quite remember [...]
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