Julie | May 31, 2007
The sudden heat wave continued last night. It was approaching 90F when we got home from work yesterday, so we delayed Freyja’s usual after-work walk until later in the evening, bleeding off some of her energy with a play session in the backyard instead. (She caught her very first mid-air frisbee!). After a movie to [...]
Julie | May 30, 2007
This weekend we walked over to the Saturday market with puppy in tow, and after Jeremy got Freyja to a safe distance from the SFC booth (safe from jumping up against the table and totally knocking down their display, which she was showing a proclivity for doing), I finally scored a tub of their plain [...]
Julie | May 29, 2007
A few (gulp… has it really been that long?) months ago, I snapped up some blood oranges at Whole Foods with all sorts of ideas for what to make with them. We hardly ever see them down in Salem, so my mind was spinning with possibilities, such that—as is my wont—I couldn’t decide what to [...]
Julie | May 28, 2007
Saturday before last, I headed out for the farmer’s market by myself because the puppy was just recovering from a night of upset tummy and not up for a long walk. I began with my usual quick survey of the booths, on the alert for newly arrived produce or interesting herbs and plants; it’s a [...]
Julie | May 25, 2007
We ran out of leche merengada, so I had to make a snap decision on what dessert to make next. I suggested roasted banana ice cream, but Jeremy shot that down in favor of banana bread. The next suggestion, peanut butter ice cream and chocolate sauce, was heartily condoned, but I didn’t have quite enough [...]
Julie | May 24, 2007
We had hardly finished off the last of the white bean chicken chili I made a week or two back when we went back to the grocery store. Jeremy popped another whole chicken into the cart, indicating that he really likes it when I make roasted chickens because of the leftovers. So on Sunday I [...]
Julie | May 22, 2007
In sifting through puppy pictures we’ve taken in the past month, I happened back across a few weeknight pasta dishes that I’ve made, and which we were pretty pleased with. It hardly seems fair to let them languish in iPhoto while writing about more blustery dishes like roasted chickens, jagerschnitzel, and legs of lamb, so [...]
Julie | May 20, 2007
Jeremy requested another roasted chicken the last time we were at the grocery store, in part (I think) because the white chicken chili I made with the leftovers of our last roast chicken was so tasty. So that was dinner last night. Thomas Keller’s recipe is definitely my go-to roast chicken nowadays, because it is [...]
Julie | May 19, 2007
It’s funny how one thing leads to another. For instance, because Jeremy stayed home from work last Wednesday, I got to have wonderful memories of making snow ice cream as a child in Colorado winters. You see, we’ve been going home for lunch every day since we got Freyja… just one more way she’s turned [...]
Julie | May 9, 2007
Jeremy loves oatmeal. I like it too, but perhaps not on as frequent a basis as he would like. We use Bob’s Red Mill rolled oats, which are thick and hearty, and although oatmeal seems like one of those no-brainer things, I find that when I make batches according to the Good Enough to Eat [...]
