All right, I can now say that I am well. 100%? Not quite. But definitely a robust 85%. Well enough to take the car this morning and get both my blood work done and a bit of shopping to tide Todd and I over before we leave on our trip. Friday we drive down to Toronto, [...]
Posts Tagged ‘food’
26 Jun
Fantastic
Dinner went so well.
I’m always worried whenever I cook for someone new that it’s going to turn out horrid. I’ve a long list of times where I did something a little different, and boffed the whole thing up and looked like a goofball. It’s made me sort of paranoid, sometimes to [...]
24 Jun
Sexy!
I have one hell of a sexy lasagne sitting on my stovetop. Made from scratch, all of it, from the bolognese to the bechamel to the noodles.
The bolognese was rich and hearty, and I used thyme I’ve grown myself.
The bechamel was as smooth as silk, night and day different from the last [...]
22 Jun
Loose Ends To Be Tied:
A) Crazy Girl from work, a while back, terribly whacky and … not unproductive, but (if I may be allowed to coin a new term) miss-productive. Yeah, she’s gone. Official letter of termination was drafted this weekend. John didn’t do it, GM did. (He was quite busy this weekend …)
B) [...]
23 May
Vacation’s Over … *sniffle*
But I have lots of pictures of artifacts, fish heads, and wheels of cheese to remind me of the good times.
John said he missed me this last week, and not to expect much time off. Huh. We’ll see about that.
Beyond that, slipping into the old routines. I [...]
26 Apr
Actually …
That wasn’t paella, but jambalaya that I made … and it wasn’t too bad. I don’t know what it is – the Joy of Cooking book has some fantastic ingredient information and the procedure is often sound (ie, along the lines of how we did it in cooking school) but more often than not, [...]
18 Apr
Makin’ Cheater’s Lasagna
I wanted lasagna. Specifically the one I made before but by the time that I wanted it it was too late to do anything about that … at least in that way.
So, taking a cue from work, we set off to the grocery store for pasta shells, ricotta, cream cheese, spinach and some fontina [...]
16 Apr
Good Day.
Very rare is the day off that I have which coincides with Todd’s day off and one where the stores are still open.
We started today lounging in bed, then readied ourselves for some serious yard-work. The lot hadn’t been raked or tidied since before we moved in, so there were leaves and debris and [...]
13 Apr
Mix-ups
Seems that yesterday’s 10th anniversary thing was NEXT Tuesday, not this Tuesday, but at least we discovered it in the car after a ‘gussy-up’ and well before arriving extremely early for the event. No matter – we did some grocery shopping, checked out Home Depot & Home Sense, dropped off the goods and went [...]
31 Mar
The Lasagna From Hell
I spent the entire morning yesterday working on that brute.
After my nasty bechamel, which I strained, and added more milk to because it was still lumpy after it sat for a bit, I began my noodles. The dough comes together pretty quick, one egg per half cup of hard flour, and then [...]
