We sacked the old one.
Plum tart II
I must say, the plum tart from yesterday’s post came out excellent.
Plum tart
We bought tiny little Italian plums at a farmers market last weekend, but they never really sweetened up. So I am making an open-faced tart.
Sushi
Michael’s bachelor party tonight began with sushi.
Yes, that’s real gold leaf, and yes, we ate it.
Allergies
Oh, Zyrtec: I forgot to take you for just one day! Why have you abandoned me to my sniffy fate?
Speed Dog
I had my very first Boston Speed Dog today. I have to say, that’s quite a good (and large!) hot dog.
Plaster repair
Before you can repair cracks in an old horsehair plaster wall, you have to enlarge the cracks back to solid material so the new plaster has somewhere to bind to.
Either that or a monster with very sharp claws has broken into our house.
Proto-dinner
At 8:30 pm tonight I remembered I was supposed to cook rice and black beans for tomorrow’s dinner (Flautas, though more burrito-like than those pictured) tonight. Good thing I remembered!
Extreme closeup: rice
From left to right: wild, brown long-grain, sushi, brown Arborio, and brown Basmati.
Paint
I painted the bedroom this weekend. Last weekend, I repaired some plaster cracks. This weekend was wallpaper border removal, spackling of defects, and paint.
We think the cream may need to be toned down to be more Vermont and less Jersey for the green to really look nice in this room.