Archive for the 'Food' Category

Odds and ends Saturday

Saturday, December 5th, 2009

A roundup: Thanksgiving visit from my folks, college football championship season, winter means house work ends. And I’m still not brewing.

Last harvest

Friday, December 4th, 2009

Some photos from our last harvest trip to Barefoot Gardens for 2009

Chocolate peanut butter ice cream

Friday, June 26th, 2009

Chocolate peanut butter ice cream for a four girl playdate

Coffee ice cream

Sunday, June 21st, 2009

Jeff’s Damn Good coffee ice cream recipe.

Educause Midwest 2009

Monday, April 13th, 2009

Recent trip #3: Educause Midwest 2009. With Richard Chamberlain and Rebecca Fauvie, I presented on Western’s response to the IITAA, summarizing a lot of my release-time work to improve web accessibility at WIU. We had pretty good attendance and good questions. I was pleased with the session.
I stayed at Club Quarters, which worked out well: [...]

CCCC 2009

Sunday, April 12th, 2009

Recent trip #1: to San Francisco for CCCC 2009. I booked a quick trip: Wed PM to Sat noon. On the one hand, I wish I’d stayed Saturday night. On the other, I didn’t want to be away from the girls any longer than I had to, and with more travel coming up, it was [...]

Goodbye 2008

Wednesday, December 31st, 2008

Let’s review:

Jan 5: Madelyn starts the Big Girl sleep plan. I’m happy to say this continues; the Bee is pretty easy to put to bed now.
Feb 21: I get an awful flu bug, missing classes and losing eight pounds in less than a week.
Mar 10: A misstep down the stairs, and I [...]

Odds and ends Thursday

Thursday, December 18th, 2008

It’s been a while. With two girls and the usual end of semester business, free time has been short, and I’ve been pouring my writing time into other things.

Last night as I was helping Madelyn get ready for bed, she picked a very bad time to jump, and caught me in the eye socket just [...]

Smoked turkey

Thursday, November 27th, 2008

How to smoke a turkey, Dilger style

Apples!

Wednesday, October 15th, 2008

Apples, to eat and to hack on