Arlene Schultz (may God rest her soul) took care of our kids when they were younger and was an honorary grandmother. She was smart and hard working, and she was the pillar of an extensive family of good-hearted and capable children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren. We lost her to cancer several years ago, and her youngest daughter is in that fight today. Surprisingly, Arlene’s mother outlived her.
Anyway, Arlene liked to make a traditional apple pie on a cookie sheet. It had a crust and a bit of glazed frosting. We ended up with several other of Arlene’s recipes, which are posted here. I’m still looking for her Chicken Pie recipe, which we probably have around somewhere.
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This salad is made with spinach, strawberries, brie, and a raspberry vinaigrette dressing. It is wonderful at Easter.
We had a salad like this at the St. Paul Hotel many years ago, and Lesley created her own version at home. She has substituted fat free Rasberry dressing nicely.
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Hacked chicken is generally served as a cold appetizer. If prepared correctly, the marinade makes it a spicy dish
This originated with our friend Joanne Luciano. We’ve modified it a bit over the years and it’s now one of Lesley’s signature dishes.
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I’ve reverted to my preferred WordPress theme and things seem to work again. I have no idea why things got messed up and then un-messed up.
Perhaps things will Go South again in a day or two. Meanwhile let’s see if things just cleared up on their own.
I hate it when things like this happen. Computers are supposed to be predictable fergoshsakes.
At the proposal of one person, I’ve reverted to the “default” WordPress blog theme.
That’s why the site looks, well, boring now.
I’m going to see if that has a significant impact on the troubles I’ve had.
My apologies if anyone was having trouble visiting the site over the past few days. I updated to a more recent WordPress version, and it broke the site.
After poking at the problem a while, I decided to try upgrading the site’s “theme” file, which specifies the stylistic details of the site’s appearance: fonts, column layout, colors, backgrounds, and so on. The problem apparently disappeared when I replaced the theme. (I say “apparently” because the problem seems to appear, or disappear, depending on cookies and other saved state – until I’ve tried this in a few different places I’m not convinced everything is working).
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This isn’t a major change – it’s something I’ve been adjusting for a while – but I am again trying SSL on logins. This is supposed to work in WordPress, but I’ve had trouble making it work with OpenID. In my own experiments, it now works for both.
If you have any trouble logging in, drop me an e-mail.
The only bad part is that all admin activities are SSL protected. That makes it a bit slower to actually post or update a page. The WordPress implementation is supposed to allow me to only protect passwords, but that doesn’t seem to work with OpenID.
Logging in is optional for this site – you don’t see anything logging in that you don’t see otherwise. You only have to log in to leave comments.
Like most sites, you can create your own user name and password to leave a comment. You may also use “OpenID” – a standard way of logging in to many sites. Several sites, including Yahoo and WordPress, provide OpenIDs for their users.
I recently tried integrating RPX – this allegedly lets people log in using their IDs from most major web sites: Facebook, Yahoo, Google, and so on. I mostly wanted it for the Facebook login. But I couldn’t get Facebook to work. It sort of “logged you in” but it didn’t seem to really let you post comments. [see update below: this is an undocumented shortcoming of the "free" or "try before you buy" service]
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We made a road trip down to the Harbor View in Pepin, WI, yesterday, stopping for art and junk shops. In Maiden Rock, we visited “Swan Song,” and met Faye Passow, creator of the “Principal Hot Dishes of Minnesota.” It’s a map showing where these hot dishes allegedly reside.
She has a whole line of similarly entertaining stuff on her Keep The Faye web site.
We bought a “Favorite Fantasy” magnet set – it comes with a individual cartoon images of different fantasies plus a couple of figures to add to today’s favorite.
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