We have reached the time of the year when the sun shines directly into my eyes when I’m sitting in my chair in the living room. Ashley is cleverly sitting just out of the direct sunlight.
2025-02-17 07:16
Category: Photography
2025-02-14 14:53
For years now I’ve been fixing the same little feast for valentine’s day: rock Cornish game hen, Uncle Phil’s long grain and wild rice, and flourless chocolate cake.
It’s inspired by the very first meal I cooked for Jackie, just a few days after we started dating.
This year I made numerous mistakes in timing and measuring—kinda weird, since I slept so well last night. Fortunately, a modest amount of scrambling and fixing managed to make everything come out delicious!
2025-02-13 11:43
Some years ago we got this glorious orange Le Creuset braising pan, and since then I’ve been inclined to braise everything I don’t grill. Contents today: venison rib chops—something that probably would grill very well, but Jackie likes the way I braise it, so that’s what I’m doing.
2025-02-06 12:53
I was preparing a honey-mustard glaze to put on a ham. The recipe called for dijon mustard, honey, and dark brown sugar—that last, presumably, to make it caramelize nicely. The new jar of honey I opened had crystalized rather completely. So I skipped the brown sugar, and just put in twice as much honey.
It was delicious.
Now I’m trying to decide whether it’s worth updating the recipe, given that I can’t expect to have crystalized honey on-hand all the time.
2025-01-31 08:20
Jackie and I call this path, along the top of the berm along the north edge of our little prairie, the High Road. There used to be a Low Road (down by the creek) and a Middle Way (in between), but they’re no longer mowed.
The sunrise is just a bonus.
2025-01-28 06:08
While waiting for the bus to go to my Esperanto group meeting last night, I admired how these clouds were nearly the same orange as the barrels under them. (The water main break is fixed, I think. Now they need to fix the road.)
2025-01-26 14:05
🎶 These snoots were made for boopin’, and that’s just what they’ll do! / Sooner or later these snoots are gonna boop all over you (do-do-do, do-do-do, do-do-do) 🎶
2025-01-24 14:08
I told Ashley that she’s “The number one girl in my eyes.”
Then I had to carefully explain that this did not mean that she should boop me in the glasses with her snout.
2025-01-20 09:04
It was really too cold outside (2℉) to pose for photographs, so I brought Ashley inside before taking a picture.
Then, after taking her jacket off, I fixed myself a hot cocoa.
But no hot cocoa for the doggo. Poor thing.
2025-01-13 16:03
For the first time ever, actually took the time to properly caramelize the onions, meaning that this batch of French onion soup was a real success.
