I am starting a list of things to do and websites to visit to help with your trip to London. Or more likely for me when I return. I am on my way to Istanbul and Paris before I head back to the States for a couple of months. PORTRAIT BENCHES – Traveling outside the […]
Opinion The National Humiliation We Need July 4 and America’s crisis of the spirit. By David Brooks Opinion Columnist July 2, 2020 We Americans enter the July 4 weekend of 2020 humiliated as almost never before. We had one collective project this year and that was to crush Covid-19, and we failed. On Wednesday, we had […]
Escargot Pastry, 125,000 Americans Dead, Face masks a political symbol…
Remaking our economy, a reaction to the Black Lives Matter Protests and the covid 19 pandemic, is getting some press. So, what white priviledge are you willing to give up? Trump Lies again, or did he just ignore? forget? you don’t think its true that his National Security team knew and didn’t bother to mention […]
Brownies
There is this funny boy who has a YouTube channel, his name is David Seymore and he is adorable. This lead me to the Tasty website for the brownie recipe and their Youtube channel. And I am hooked. On both. I used my curly Brownie pan which makes lots of edge, and with a heavy […]
Snickerdoodles
Yum.. the first of two recipes I am committed to trying. These from Preppy Kitchen made 24 cookies. and we popped some in the freezer so when I try a second version we can do a side by side comparison. And … yes, its worse today than yesterday…
Thai Basil Chicken & The Lawless Law and Order President
With Basil from our garden. Equal parts Sweet Dark Soy and Oyster sauce, and a bit less fish sauce, 1/2 as much regular soy, 4 crushed cloves garlic, hot peppers, 2-3 shallots sliced thin. Start shallots, add chicken ( cut to almost ground) add 1/2 sauce til chicken is brown. Stir in peppers and garlic, […]
Look at me! The humiliation that is our president
From The Washington Post
Seafood Chowder…and the worst week any of us can remember as deaths surpass 100,000 in the U.S.
Fish Soup – in honor of Judie, who eats all my offerings and loves me no matter how fat I try to make her… Hugs Judie, and thank you. SO it started when I asked Judie if there was anything special she would like and she forwarded on a recipe from Bon Appetit for Seafood […]
Corn Soup Again
Trumps Lie of Empty Cupboard exposed, From the HuffPost A bit on the culture war and Mask Shaming. This time I added bacon to the mix. I sautéed the bacon in with the leeks. I think this was a mistake. Although it smelled amazing! Next time going to do the bacon, remove it, sauté the […]
Tuna
Washington Post… Revenge of mask wearing Americans On the 67th day in Lockdown we made tuna. A dry piece of cold Tuna into a hot pan with a bit of Peanut Oil. Sear all sides… Remove from pan, add in a shallot finely chopped… allow to almost brown… 3 or 4 TBSP each of Mirin […]
A Tart and a great quote about our president … “Lacking qualities we associate with responsible adulthood”
Trumps bullying cannot disguise his weakness… from the Washington Post and as we made our tart we got to play with so many of our new toys… I have never rolled a pie dough, or mixed in butter with my hands, or made a tart or anything like it before. How terribly intimidating … from […]
