Author: Tim Spannaus

Healthy veggie tart

Collette’s taking a nutrition class so we’re eating better foods.

This recipe for a zucchini and swiss chard tart is really great to eat and seems healthy. What I really liked about it is the crust, which contains whole wheat flour and is really a yeast recipe. Don’t worry if you’re not used to working with yeast breads; you make it with a mixer and it’s duck-soup simple.

The result is a savory vegetable tart with a crust that is much lighter than it has any right to be.

I want to try the crust with other savory recipes, like quiches, which we sometimes avoid because of the high-fat crusts.

Family reunion

We have to miss the Wise family reunion June 13-14 in Calhoun county, IL.

I have posted a page with information and pictures about the Detroit branch of the family. You can comment here. Authorized users (Wise family or wannabees) can comment at the somewhatwise.info site for the reunion.

Welcome, friend

I have avoided starting a blog for several years, even though friends suggested I write one.

You see, most blogs have a particular focus. I read blogs about politics, technology, teaching and learning, and faith. I didn’t see that my blog would have a singular focus like those that I read. Then I saw Jan Nunley’s blog. It was what I wanted to do. She writes about a variety of topics, and in a real sense gave me permission to start my blog.

I have a lot going on in my life and I’ll write about them. I’m program chair in Instructional Technology at Wayne State University, specializing in interactive technologies for learning. I’m deacon at St. John’s Episcopal Church in Royal Oak, Michigan, having moved to the Episcopal Church after most of a lifetime as a Lutheran. I am a liberal-to-progressive Democrat, news junkie, and bread baker, gardener, and foodie.

I’ll write about those things and other things as I think I have something to say.

Read those posts that you find interesting and ignore the rest. It’s OK.

Tell me what you think. I’ll listen, read, respond and expect you to push back.