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These days of endless hunkering have given Jen the opportunity to grow her entire garden from seed. We are expecting quite a bounty!

We had weird light and moody skies yesterday, rounding out four weeks of quarantine. The days run together as we try to get some work done, attend video social events, plant whatever we can think to plant in the garden, and cook whatever we can think to cook. Today we removed the kimchi from its […]

Here is Jen having a Zoom cocktail hour with her friends — the new normal. Jen deserved to unwind after a full day of preparing the garden for spring. She’s gotten a big head start this year!

We had a happy Thanksgiving with Julie & Stacey, Erica & Geoff, and, in a reprise from 2018, the Perkins family from Perth. We baked many pies: hickory, sour cherry, pumpkin, apple, and mushroom (clockwise from left). Indeed, we had so many pies competing for oven space that some had to be cooked in the […]

We celebrated a rainy Mother’s Day by giving Jen breakfast in bed. Saturday was a lovely day, and we saw many signs of spring. We managed to forage over a pound of morels, enabling us to reprise our homemade fettuccine, asparagus, and morel dinner.

Jen couldn’t wait to get into the woods to see if we could find some early morels. We were rewarded! On Saturday, while Sarah had dinner and a movie (Avengers) with the Lawson twins, Jen and I made homemade fettuccine with sautéed morels, garden asparagus, Mike Heffernan’s garlic, and chopped parsley.

Sarah celebrated her 15th birthday with a riding lesson, lunch with the Lawson twins, and a fantastic cake baked by Jen. As is customary, Sarah could select any cake she wanted. Jen made a three layer vanilla cake with chopped Oreos in the batter, crushed Oreo buttercream frosting, and chocolate ganache.

It was icy cold on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, but we had a had a warm weekend with a visit from David Upson and his family. Many kitchen gadgets were pressed into service: we made Chicken Adobe in the somehow back-from-the-dead Instant Pot, a perfect 136 degree beef tenderloin courtesy of the sous vide […]

Sarah presided over a very merry Christmas in her traditional elf capacity, with a little help from her assistant, Daisy. Despite our rather short, pudgy tree, we had a festive time with the entire Burleigh clan. We feasted on gravlax, herring, stollen, and fruit salad. For Xmas dinner, we had country ham and biscuits, as […]

Our Thanksgiving this year included Rinda, Lew, Julie, Stacey, and the Perkins family, four visiting Australians celebrating their first Thanksgiving.  We had an 18-pound turkey from Salt Point, together with pecan stuffing, green beans with slivered almonds, creamed onions, sweet potatoes with marshmallows, strawberry jello mold, three kinds of cranberry sauce, and four pies. We […]