Since today is Newtonmas, it seemed like a perfect excuse to make apple pancakes. These are a lot like the ones I remember my Dad making on Sunday mornings when blueberries were out of season, except that S has a dairy allergy so I made them with olive oil rather than butter. Ingredients:

1 C. Flour
1 Tbsp. Sugar
2 tsp. ( Read more... )

My mother was an excellent cook. I have no idea where she found her recipe for cranberry relish, but today is the day to make it if you wanted it to be at its best on Thanksgiving. So I did. It's trivial.
Ingredients: one apple, one orange, one pound of cranberries. Cut the ( Read more... )

Well, it's the first of March. Where the fsck did February go? I was going to do FAWM, but I didn't. Foo. I had a little less work to do this morning; usually I have to split the week's log entries between the old month (in a file called, for example 2020/02.done) and the new one. I can put off starting 2020/03.done to next ( Read more... )

Yesterday involved a lot of food, so here are a menu and some recipes! These are in the order we prepared them.
First, my Mom's cranberry relish.

1. Start a day or two before -- it needs to sit in the fridge for at least 12 hours.
2. Use a food processor, or an old-fashoned meat grinder with a coarse ( Read more... )

N and the three teenagers arrived late afternoon; G followed after work -- I met him when the 5:40 ferry arrived. (That's the ferry that leaves at 5:40; I occasionally get confused and get to ( Read more... )

Because I'm thinking about it, and am too tired about what to post, I thought I'd post my Mom's recipe for cranberry relish.
Ingredients:

• A bag or two of raw, whole cranberries.
• Apples. One or two per bag of berries, depending on size.
• Oranges. Maybe one per two bags.

Chop everything up coarsely in a food processor. Even better ( Read more... )

(From a comment elsejournal:)
When I have left-over rice I make fried rice, usually for breakfast (egg ( Read more... )

Not a bad week, I guess. Right now I'm feeling pretty down and hopeless, partly because of this article about Trump plus the fact that my family's economic ( Read more... )

After last week on call, almost anything was bound to be an improvement ( Read more... )

The only writing I did last week was last Sunday's weekly post. I'll try to do better; hopefully I won't be feeling as harried this week. I did get in some music time -- last Sunday, and yesterday. And some walking with Colleen and Kat, also on Sunday.

Quite a bit of back pain. It's been mostly ok in the morning, but tends ( Read more... )