Hubby was too hungry to wait for photos, so no pics today. Dinner was super tasty, though! I made up a corn bisque soup, then as it was almost done (and the hubby was almost home) I decided that we must have biscuits. Luckily it only took 20 minutes to whip them up and they were so good. I am thankful that I only made a third of the recipe, or I ( Read more... )

At the recommendation of my aunt, I tried a bread recipe from Rose Levy Beranbaum, author of several books including The Bread Bible and The Cake Bible. After reasonable success with whole wheat bread from King Arthur's site, I thought I would try something different. The wheat bread recipe I tried uses about half whole wheat, half bread flour and ( Read more... )

For brunch, I decided to veer away from my traditional Bisquick waffle recipe. Buttermilk is not something I normally have, so I decided to try a recipe from my Mark Bittman cookbook, How to Cook Everything Vegetarian. It's a yeast batter that rises overnight (or during the day if you're a "waffles for dinner" kind of group), then the eggs are ( Read more... )

As a long-time vegetarian, I'm always looking for yummy protein sources. Beans and lentils are foods I've been trying to eat more of, even before soy (the most common non-meat protein marketed at vegetarians) was on my death-sinus naughty list. Since we're out of onions (no mujadarrah until I go to the store), I decided to use up some beans ( Read more... )

We had our second preview last night. About five pages of dialogue had changes, we cut two songs (which affected costume changes) and I ran up-and-down stairs all day. Whew. The benefit of this schedule is that it allows me to drink coffee at 6:00pm and still fall asleep right away. We open tonight (after 4 hours of afternoon rehearsal), so the run ( Read more... )

Villa Casale was a really impressive site. The second century Roman estate was covered in boiling mud after a volcanic eruption and not discovered until the early 19th century; excavations were only begun in the mid-20th century. Because a lot of excavation and restoration work is still being done, only a section of the ruins is open at a time, and ( Read more... )

We walked the four long blocks to the Mill City Farmers Market on Sunday morning looking for some spring produce. Granted, it's still early for local anything, but it was worth a shot. What we didn't know was that this market (the closest to our place) sells very little food! Well, they sell artisan cheeses, "gourmet mini doughnuts," jam, bread, ( Read more... )

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