Noteworthy this week – 8/28

I’m going to try doing a weekly post of little things. Things I cooked or things that happened with the kids or in life that I want to tell you about but that might not be worthy of a whole post of their own. We’ll see if it sticks. Here is this week’s list:

  • I chopped an onion at my kitchen counter while crouching under an umbrella being held by a two year old. Go ahead and try to picture that.
  • Nothing makes you feel old like purchasing a training bra for your daughter. Don’t tell her I wrote that, she’ll never forgive me.
  • Plums. I’ve frozen 10 pounds of Italian plums and 18 pounds of Satsuma plums thanks to generous people I know. I’ve also eaten about 75 plums while standing over the sink and I made a yummy plum crisp for breakfast this morning.IMG_1211
  • I can put on mascara while being given “shots” in the butt with an empty bottle of 409.
  • We’re going to build a spec house! Robert’s new business, Cedarwing Builders, will be up and running soon and this is going to be our first big project. I have agreed to do the design side of things, which I know nothing about aside from when we built our own house. Wish me luck.
  • Fig upside down cake. I didn’t love the recipe I used for the cake part but it was pretty and has potential so I might try it again.IMG_1200
  • I came upon Felix playing with a stuffed fox and singing to himself, “In my scrotum, in my scrotum, in my penis, in my scrooooooootuuuuuuum.”
  • I stress-ate 3/4 of a bag of sweet potato chips in the car. My pants don’t fit. Are these things related? Possibly.
  • This salad. Curly endive, guinea hen legs, figs and grapes roasted with port and sherry vinegar, and goat cheese toasts with fresh thyme. The dressing was some of the roasted figs and the juices from the pan, more sherry vinegar, shallots and olive oil.IMG_1157

 

5 Comments

  1. What fun to read these “vignettes” this morning as I wake up, laughing at the umbrella and 409 images. And salivating…. I want that salad for breakfast, or the fig cake or the plum crisp. With all you have going on, you still manage to create deliciousness. And congrats to you and Robert on the launch of Cedarwing Builders!

  2. Ivy, I love this. Life is nothing but deranged moments, and yours are really choice.
    The fig cake is beautiful. I am trying to find and send you a photo of one I took in Paris, with fresh sliced ones sailing in little pointy rows in a pond of custard. If only my friends were with me I would have bought it.

    Love, Lyn

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