Archive for the 'Food' Category

New grill

Thursday, June 12th, 2008

Our new grill

Strawberry ice cream

Sunday, June 8th, 2008

Strawberry ice cream recipe

Grading foursomes

Tuesday, May 13th, 2008

I began the semester with 36 students in two courses. Grades go in today. Look at all the fours! Unfortunately, WIU doesn’t have plus/minus grading, or I would have assigned five B+ and two C+ grades.
A: 4
B: 11
C: 4
F: 5
U: 4
W: 4
early drops: 4
The “U” is a non-punitive grade assigned in composition courses, basically “failed [...]

Odds and ends Monday

Monday, April 14th, 2008

The weather is finally not dreary. I drove to and from St Louis this weekend, and it rained nearly the entire time. But today it is sunny and slowly warming up.
Why St Louis? Attending a beer festival with Thomas and Jeff. Great brews, though it was cold and there weren’t nearly enough portajohns (two for [...]

CCCC 2008

Saturday, April 5th, 2008

CCCC 2008 activities: our panel about journals on the web; seafood; more

O coffee

Thursday, February 28th, 2008

I am now drinking my first cup of coffee since Saturday 2/23.
O Coffee! Thou dost dispel all cares, thou are the
object of desire to the scholar.
This is the beverage of the friends of God; it gives
health to those in its service who strive after wisdom.
(via Brendan)
Why did I deprive myself of the elixir of [...]

Columbian expedition

Monday, November 26th, 2007

Erin and Madelyn and I made the short trip to Columbia, Mizzourah last weekend to hang out with Jeff, Jenny, and Vered. With two kids and crummy weather, we didn’t get out much. Besides, there was plenty of football to keep us busy indoors. Although we missed half of the Gator game because of UK-UT [...]

Odds and ends Wednesday

Wednesday, November 21st, 2007

I have been grading; the last big push of the year. More on that in a separate post. (updated to add link
Erin and I worked on the house quite a bit the past few days while the weather cooperated enough to allow outdoor painting. I found some water damage caused by some idiotic flashing [...]

Laziness^3590243097

Sunday, August 19th, 2007

Erin just pointed this out to me: those “too busy” to make peanut butter and jelly sandwiches need not worry; Big Food has got it covered.

Ice

Friday, January 12th, 2007

Ice cometh. The weather promises to get worse over the next 48 hours, with more ice and snow on the way.
Time to make soup! We’ve got a couple chicken carcasses in the freezer and enough vegetables to go with. My recipe for chicken soup has always been simple:
1 or more chicken carcasses
Whatever vegetables are handy
Make [...]