Month: October 2013

No, not vegan zombies… some heirloom grains from a mill in South Carolina.  We had the polenta with dinner tonight.

I saw a sundog on my way into work this morning and was hoping it would still be there by the time I got to our Conference Room with a View. Alas, no. But I did see this cruise ship arriving into Boston Harbor early this morning.

Cats hate having their belly rubbed.

If only this maple/apple cocktail tasted as good as it looks, I’d be home free. Alas, experimentation must continue.

Lis bought me some apple butter because it’s October and some things are appropriate in the fall. Except today’s weather was anything but fall-like. Maybe I’ll try it tomorrow.

No digital technology was involved in the subject of this picture.  This is the shadow of a wet kitchen strainer on the bottom of a stock pot.

We went to Stefan & Emily’s wedding at the Higgins Armory Museum.  Brings back memories.

(And yes, S & E, I’ll upload photos to the wedding photo-sharing site once I’ve gone through them.)

My coworker’s orange tree in his office actually bore fruit this year, and he handed out some tiny oranges for us to try. Some tasted them in the office (and declared they were “less sour than battery acid”), and some took them home to their families. I knew immediately what I wanted to do with mine:

There was a very large spider just off our front porch this morning.  If only it would stick around for Halloween.

 

This isn’t even my macro lens, though it is a slight crop.

This is The Chicken Plate.  Soon it will be filled with yummy fried chicken, which happens on average about once a month. Sure, we will serve other things on it, but if there’s fried chicken to be had, it goes on this plate.

 

My fried chicken is dredged in a flour/cornmeal mix (with salt and Ancho pepper), briefly pan-fried in a little olive oil, then into the oven for 45 minutes.  I use the chicken from our CSA, of course, and it’s damn tasty if I do say so myself.