Archives » September, 2009

Back to the ’50s

We had a 1950’s style lunch yesterday.
Tomato soup and grilled cheese sandwiches.

Of course, it was updated for the current times: Homemade cream of tomato soup, using fresh tomatoes from the garden. The sandwich was whole grain bread with Coastal Cheddar cheese. And of course, garden-fresh carrots on the side.
I used this recipe for the soup, [...]

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Knitters’ Retreat!

I had an absolutely delightful time at the 7th Annual Rocky Mountain Knitters’ Retreat at Alta, Utah.
Alta is a world-famous ski resort, and happens to be where I (and probably most Utahns of my age) learned to ski. It’s about a 45-minute drive from where I live in downtown Salt Lake City, but it’s a [...]

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Changes are Coming

Especially when it comes to the weather.

A 30-degree drop between Tuesday and Wednesday? Shudder. I’m not ready. Although the high temperatures we’ve had lately have been a bit unusual for September.
The weather at the Knitters’ Retreat over the weekend was awesome. Mostly t-shirt weather as long as you were in the sun, but in the [...]

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Friday Food

I had decided Wednesday night that I’d make scalloped potatoes yesterday. All day I kept thinking about them. Mmmmm.
And I wasn’t disappointed by the result – they were absolutely delicious:

And since I had a bunch of tomatoes to use up, I made one of my favorite recipes for using up fresh tomatoes – Summer Pasta [...]

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Good Things from the Garden

Good things from the garden
Garden in the valley
Valley of the Jolly (ho, ho ho)…

Oops. Was I singing that “minitune” out loud?
If you were following along, you’re probably either at least 50 or you’ve watched “Demolition Man” too many times. Or both, in my case.
But I did have good things from the garden yesterday.
First I [...]

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