Surprise, surprise! I got my act together to do a Photoshop Phriday post! Irwin Uteritz attended Michigan in the early 1920s and from 1921-23 was the Wolverine’s quarterback under coach Fielding Yost.  As if balancing football and coursework weren’t enough, Uteritz was also an infielder for the Michigan baseball team (and a captain in 1923).  During […]

Yesterday I learned the French term l’esprit de l’escalier which is used to describe the problem of thinking of a perfect reply too late.  Whether in an argument or casual conversation we all have those moments where minutes or hours later you finally think of what you wanted to say, only to have it no longer be relevant. […]

Last week the weather signaled that it was fall and this week the produce available at the farmer’s market followed suit.  In a few days the calendar will finally get with the program and make it official.  Instead of seeing produce stacks at the market piled high with zucchini and summer squash there were a […]

Throughout the summer I mentioned the bumper crop of cabbage that consistently found its way into our CSA box.  Well in our last box we didn’t get cabbage but instead got a butternut squash which sat on our kitchen table for a few weeks.  We’ve cooked with lots of different types of squash and I wanted to […]