…from the happiest – or, certainly the most crowded – place on earth. For only the second time in adult memory, we broke the rules. We grabbed my Mom, hopped a plane, headed south and spent a vaguely magical, turkey-free Thanksgiving with the Mouse. Uncle Walt must think I’m not getting enough magic, because my [...]
Posted in Chicagoland, Holiday, leftover love on Nov 29th, 2008
Saturday, 1:36 pm. How’s it going with those leftovers? While Josie and Greg watched KU beat Missouri, I stacked a few Turkey-Bacon-Cranberry-Swiss Clubs. And now, we are down to only one enormous leg. Perhaps Henry VIII will just come on over and finish things off? If you wish to build your own, here’s the sedimentary [...]
Posted in Holiday on Nov 28th, 2008
Hope everyone had a wonderful holiday! Right now I am unable to think or write about food – well, at least for a little while, before my cranberry alarm goes off and demands another plate. Until then, please enjoy this useful and delicious rerun, specially selected by the flashback gods for the day after Thanksgiving, [...]
Posted in Chicagoland, Holiday on Nov 26th, 2008
…and through the, er, traffic. Like so many of you, we’re taking this show on the road today, headed a bit north and bringing not one but two kinds of cranberry sauce with us. Josie noted that it didn’t look like enough, but that’s only because she eats more cranberry-related items than any human I [...]
Posted in Chicagoland, Holiday, new old house on Nov 21st, 2007
I have a dear friend in Australia – and since we don’t get to see each other, we talk mostly by email and, in these busy days, frequently by blog. “Your posts are angst-ridden,” she recently told me. My friend is sincere and caring and means only well. But I stared at the words on [...]
