Work was very stressful this week. My first week on my own in the new role. Of course, it is also the week of many reports and deadlines and two office's worth of work. But, I survived ( Read more... )

It being basil season I got (and the madbaker picked up) a dozen bunches of basil from the farm we subscribe to. So I made lots of pesto today to replenish the annual supply. I ended up filling three ice cube trays to freeze, plus having a bit more to put in the fridge ( Read more... )

Here is my updated list of who all will be camping at the cooks playdate:

Juana
Ivar
Eduardo
Giovani
Rose
Aldith
Jñati
Anna Serra … bringing sunshade
Francisco
Guy
Josh
Ref … bringing sunshade
Svava
Geoffrey
Katrine
Conchobar
Eranoch
their kids
Erik
Birna
Eulalie (spelling?)
Fiamma
Cordelia
Urtatim
Maeva
Flidais
Vyncent
Sara
Antonio
Catarina
Muriel
Leon
Ysabella (maybe)

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Tues. Nov. 8 • Jacques Pepin in conversation with Joanne Weir • Delancey Street Theater, 600 The Embarcadero. 7 p.m. $40 • (purchase of ticket buys you a copy of Jacques' new cookbook, Essential Pepin, which is $40, so basically the ticket is free! Books will be available for pickup at the event) • Call Omnivore at 415-282-4712 with Visa or ( Read more... )

Various stuff ...

Last Tuesday we went to see the new musical at ACT of Tales of the City http://www.act-sf.org/1011/talesofthecity/. Our season tickets are for the last night of previews. Since, as the program put it, a musical has more moving parts, they have added another week of previews, so the official opening night isn't until this week. I ( Read more... )

The MIL and SIL came to visit for the weekend. They got in Thursday and we went to dinner at the Jeanne d'Arc. A cute French restaurant near Union Square that has tasty food and medieval-oid decor. Then we watched Galaxy Quest which my MIL had never seen ( Read more... )

Today I am making Coq au Vin from an old stewing hippy chicken. When I chopped her up yesterday to put in the marinade her fat was a beautiful yellow. Just like lemon curd. It has been saved and stuffed in the freezer to render and use in tasty bits. Right now the very purple chicken is bubbling away. Daddy and the WSM are coming to dinner.

As I mentioned, I'm just today catching up on LJ, so I've seen the other Culinary Symposium posts, but not done one myself, so here goes.

It was sooooo fuuuunnnn!!! Rafaella and Countess E and all the other people who worked so hard to put on this event did a totally fabulous and wonderful job. Yeahhh! Flayling muppet arms yeah!

GM and C and I flew ( Read more... )

The week before the Culinary Symposium (see separate post in a little bit) was very busy, well, at least by standards of my generally not overly cluttered days :-)

That Monday was an important meeting for my sweetie that I tagged along to for moral support.

Then Tuesday was ACT with the usual suspects. The play, No Exit, was much better than our ( Read more... )