Have you ever?:

1. Made bread from scratch? Yes - these days with a bread  machine, but I'vedone it without many years ago.

2. Cooked fresh squash? Saute'd, or oven roasted - Scorn, zucchini, etc.

3. Made homemade soup? One in a while. lots of vegetables.

4. Fried chicken? Usually roast or grill chicken - thighs  most of the time.

5. Made spaghetti ( Read more... )

We deviate from our standard system for various reasons ( Read more... )

Cocktail hour in our household is at 6. Just about every night - not when we are going out to a dance ( Read more... )

For lunch we have a variety of things that contains protein - mostly store bough such as: quiche, calzones, quesadillas, salami, smoked salmon, tuna fish salad, peanut butter and some prepared salad-type stuff and a piece of toast. Sometimes if we have excessive dinner leftovers we use them for either the protein psrt of the salad. Occasionall ( Read more... )

When we go shopping we get some kind of seafood and some kind of meat. In each case enough for 2 meals ( Read more... )

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We have very regular system for meals: planning, shopping, preparation, eating ( Read more... )

Last night we went to The Christmas Revels in Sanders Theater in Cambridge. What a great show as usual. This one was 1930's American - usually a different theme each year, last year's was Nordic. The cast includes a number of groups - some constructed for this show, others who have their own existence. Being there brought to mind a lot of ( Read more... )

After resting a bit in our hotel room to help recover from jetlag we started walking around Ryekjavik. We had flown over a day before the cruise was supposed to start - conveniently we were able to get into our hotel room at 7:30 am.

One of the first places we visited was The Settlement Exhibition, a museum with lots of exhibits about the early ( Read more... )

We just returned from Motss Con XXXII in Palo Alto. soc.motss, a Usenet news group that was created in the '80s as a means for LGBTQ people to communicate - and called motss for "members of the same sex" since using gay and lesbian in the name would likely have caused it to not be carried at many sites. Starting in 1988 there has been an annual ( Read more... )