Category: food & drink
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The Last Breakfast
Next week, the Dane County Farmer’s Market returns to cap square, so this morning was the last time we could go for breakfast because they only serve while they’re in their winter quarters at the senior center on Mifflin Street. I was sort of hoping for waffles or a big pile of pancakes, but I… Read.
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Lunch
Spaghetti for lunch today, same as yesterday and the day before. And Wednesday night. And Tuesday night. My Darling B made an everlasting batch of spaghetti on Tuesday, or as close to everlasting as you can get on the human scale of time. There’s still a huge frozen chunk of leftover sauce and forty-two dozen… Read.
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Burnt
I just got back from a run to the local hardware store and I mention it not so you can tally another hash mark in the notebook you’re using to keep track of my hardware-buying habits, but because there’s a Denny’s restaurant right next door and someone in the kitchen had burnt the toast. That… Read.
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Summer Wars
After scurrying from the UW campus up to cap square to watch Weather Gazers at the Bartell theater, we had to scurry back again to the Union theater on the UW campus to watch Summer Wars, the last film on our schedule for this year’s film festival. Next year, we’ve got to try a little… Read.
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Haircut
Day off from work today with My Darling B – AWESOME! And not just today but tomorrow and Friday, too, so we can cram as much movie watching into the five days of the Wisconsin Film Festival as possible. The festival doesn’t kick off until six o’clock this evening but we took the whole day… Read.
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Smooove
My Darling B made an avocado smoothie this morning and kept some aside for me. I eagerly slurped it up, and I say that as a man who would not have slurped up anything with avocado in it until B started experimenting with foods like this. I was not a big fan of avocado because… Read.
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No Such Thing
As I grabbed my coffee mug and headed to the kitchen for a refill, My Darling B asked me, “Haven’t you had enough coffee already?” Her comment provoked a puzzled frown and a pregnant pause from me. When my brain finished processing her comment and came up with nothing, I was finally able to speak:… Read.
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Oishii desu!
It’s not like Madison needs another restaurant, but we’re pretty happy that Umami opened on Willy Street anyway. We stopped there for dinner after work today and each slurped up a bowl of ramen the likes of which we’ve not enjoyed since we left Japan almost six years ago. We’ve tried ramen at a few… Read.
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So Close
My Darling B has been in the kitchen all morning stewing a batch of chicken thighs in saffron and a bunch of other yummy-smelling stuff, in preparation for turning them into meat pies. After stewing them, she piled them on a platter, placed the platter on the dining room table, then went to work on… Read.
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Talkies
Tickets went on sale for the Wisconsin Film Fest at noon today. We had the films we wanted to see picked out the night before and sat waiting with the web browser of the most dependable computer in the house parked on the film fest web site, mouse-clicking finger poised ready to hit the “buy… Read.
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