Monday, 23 January 2012
And we got a bottle of Planeta La Segreta (a white) at this liquor store (aka Ansley Wine) that I’d never had before and it was…um-um-good. Planeta is a major winery in Sicily…that we did not visit while we were there last May. Should we plan on another Sicily trip that includes winery visits? Hmm-hmm???
Wednesday, 18 January 2012
This statue is standing on a cube labeled Jack Daniel. I’m not sure what the rainbow mustache means.
UPDATE: chili essay related to yesterday’s chili (and today’s leftovers) added to Food Fun as a wordy recipe….
Tuesday, 17 January 2012
It really wasn’t chilly today (a tad over 50°F when I went for grocs), but it was rainy and I deemed it a chili day. Even before I saw another pot of my chili (resurrected from a Guru archive) over on nancynall.com.
Monday, 9 January 2012
I’m not sure why a pineapple. Except maybe that they’re not native to anyplace I’ve set foot (they’re from South America, according to WikiPee—and I did not recall even that).
Tuesday, 20 December 2011
Carol, the wonderous baker, made her superb muffins today—buttermilk, flax, walnuts, oat bran, and a huge variety of other nutritious ingredients lovingly blended to create the tastiest moooofins.
Monday, 12 December 2011
Bench lichen from ABG on Sunday….
Most exciting event today: making bourbon balls with TH. I used the food processor to reduce a total of eight boxes of vanilla wafers (but not nilla) to crumbs, four for us and four for TH. We both just fully processed half, so there’s another rolling stint ahead of us….
Wednesday, 7 December 2011
It’s nasty windy outside, with a shockingly cold edginess we haven’t experienced since last winter. Brr. We are lucky, however—preparing to dine with friends in a house extra-warmed by the oven…key lime pie for dessert!
Monday, 5 December 2011
That is, I love watching them fall, but here in the city leaves on the ground gotta be “in the right place.” At least ultimately.
When we walked to TJs (although these jars are from WF), I shuffled through the leaves caught against the low wall bordering the sidewalk. With glee!
Meanwhile, back at the ranch…
John took the backyard and I focused on the front, and now we’re not so leafy. John took the motorized option, and used the mower to shred the leaves and blow the shreds onto the ivy. I used the shovel to deconstruct the veggie bed, and the rake to re-situate leaves.
Not the complete autumn lockdown, but big strides….
Wednesday, 30 November 2011
I heard the white stuff piled up in southern Mich overnight, but here we enjoyed delightful sunshine.
Roasted a boneless pork loin tonight, which I haven’t done in a while. Did a version of a rub with coarse homemade brown-yellow mustard and chopped fresh rosemary, lubricated with a bit of olive oil, plus salt and black pepper, of course.
Need I say: yum.
Monday, 28 November 2011
Falling leaves get a lot of press this time of year, but in these parts, we also get a crop of pecans. I don’t know this type, but Texas A&M has quite a listing of cultivars. Pecans are native to the lower Mississippi Valley (in general), and botanically related to the hickory and walnuts.
Speaking of falling things, those white meteorological uniques (archaic use as noun) are predicted for the overnight hours. Any sane person would know that with temps where they are and the ground as warm as it is, those leetle fliers will abandon their frozen state for the watery state at near warp-speed.