June 2008

A Gourmet Cooking Party: Fun, frugal, and delicious

June 30, 2008

Pasta! Make Pasta! Yesterday we spent the afternoon at La Maya’s house experimenting with a friend’s pasta machine. We had the idea that we wanted to actually make our own pasta (having been told that it’s much better than the dried stuff you get at the supermarket) and decorate it up with made-from-scratch sauce. Even [...]

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Good ole boys

June 29, 2008

Yesterday The New York Times ran a front-page feature highlighting one of Our Beloved City’s most intractable foibles: raw sexism. The Phoenix Country Club, we are told, persists in its immemorial custom of barring women from the part of the institution where business is conducted. A Little History The Phoenix Country Club was for many [...]

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Estate Sales: The canary in the mine?

June 27, 2008

La Maya and I drove out to Scottsdale this morning, at the crack of proverbial dawn, to attend an estate sale that looked pretty enticing. Pictured on the organizer’s site was a bedroom set in the mode that M’hijito has described as desirable, plus various other interesting-looking loot. When we got there, we found a [...]

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Cheap Eats: Easy, yummy cabbage

June 26, 2008

A couple of months ago, a commenter on one of the many PF blogs I read-believe it was The Simple Dollar-asked how you make cabbage. This elicited several recipes for boiled cabbage and hot dishes. All of these are delicious. But I didn’t see any that resembled my favorite. Here it is. To make a [...]

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Real Life: Funnier than the comic strips

June 25, 2008

Speaking of the vagaries of megalithic bureaucracies (as we were yesterday), get an eyeful of what visitors see when they park at the Great Desert University, self-styled “gold standard” of our state’s public education system. The photographer reports that every “compagt” space in the parking garage is so marked. He has yet to discover whether [...]

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The joy of megacorporations

June 24, 2008

Months have gone by, and I’m still trying to extract statements from TIAA-CREF and Fidelity for my retirement plan. I can’t access their websites because neither outfit has given me a PIN or a password. The most recent statements arrived in spring of 2007. After trying to call and being repelled by impenetrable telephone run-around [...]

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