Not a whole lot to say. The boy toy and I bought a whole lot of vegetables and fruits at Spicknall's Farm. He wanted to make gazpacho, but his recipe turned out to be too acidic for his stomach, though not for mine. The rest of the soup will be my lunch on Monday, I guess ( Read more... )

Saturday evening I had a grand time at patches023's birthday party. I talked with many people, including dr_zrfq, while maugorn and his musical buddies jammed. Maugorn is never happier than when he's making music. I do think that the bass guitar was drowning out Maugie's work on his 12-string acoustic, but then it was Maugie's bass and amplifier in the first place, so he ( Read more... )

I have finally finished updating http://ladypatriciaoftrakai.blogspot.com with the details of Slavic University. Go check that out.

Yeah, I know I wrote it in kind of a dry style that didn't fully capture the joy of partying with sfandra, pan_zygmunt and everyone else there. They *know* how to ( Read more... )

How long do hard-boiled eggs keep in the refrigerator after you've cooked them? Do they have the same "shelf life" as raw eggs -- i.e., you go by the sell-by date on the packaging ( Read more... )

Went to T.H.'s house again. When I started going there for Thanksgiving, her nephew Lee was in middle school. Now he's a senior at William & Mary. How time flies ( Read more... )

Today my workgroup went out to lunch together. We went to a rather fancy place down the street, because it was participating in this worthy charity event. (Even more restaurants are participating in the dine-out thing for dinner, if you've already had lunch.) I had a bowl of braised kale soup with chorizo meatballs, followed by a personal-sized ( Read more... )

Months ago, I happened to say within the range of nostasia's hearing that it's hard to find a bread machine in the small-appliance aisle these days -- maybe due to the low-carb craze. She said, "Oh, I just gave mine away ( Read more... )

Definitely heavy on the organ meats. Makes an SCA feast menu sound kind of tame, doesn't it?

Couldn't get Pennsic Boy Toy to go to the Sheep & Wool Festival today, so I'll have to get there tomorrow after church. Glad everyone had a good day up there ( Read more... )

So somebody was asking, "What do French Canadians eat?" Here is a first pass at a menu for the church dinner ( Read more... )