Bottom of the vegetable bin rice salad

Divided
There's a common recipe ingredient list instruction, where the amount of something that you need will be given followed by the word "divided"; e.g. 1 3/4 cups sugar, divided. I tend to screw this up myself, since I often kind of cook from the ingredient list without really reading the instruction

Always wanted to do that
There are two stairwells in my building, as well as an odd outdoor set of stairs to the third floor balcony. The building, Helen C. White Hall, is an example of 1970s Brutalist Architecture; at dinner on Saturday someone said that the stairs were some remnant of a plan to link it to the administrative buildings on Bascom Hill. I usually use the staircase that only goes to the 4th floor where I work; the entrance is

So, the leftovers
In my Julia Child The Way to Cook, at the end of every section on meats (and probably some of other foods as well) there are a couple paragraphs under the heading Feasting on the remains - "wonderful things can be done with leftover lamb, raw or cooked". You can just hear Julia.Anyways, here're my plans:Tonight Mark & I had a reprise of the vegetarian option from Saturday - mushroom pate en croute, roasted broccoli, and mashed potatoes with spoonfuls of the Madeira sauce. The only thing left from all that is about a pint of the sauce which I just

Fall Fancy
Last night, I served what I called a "Fall Fancy Dinner" to a crowd of 14.Here's the annotated menu~Appetizers: Baked Brie "crostini" - thickish slabs of Brie laid on slices of baguette, sprinkled with sliced almonds, and baked - this is the way we served it w