Wayne and Rebecca Madsen

Apple Walnut Salad
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2 cups ciabatta bread, cut into 1/2 inch cubes
2 TBS olive oil
1 cup celeriac (celery root), thinly sliced
1/2 cup seedless grapes (green), halved
1/2 cup walnuts, toasted, slightly crushed
1 apple, cored, quartered and thinly sliced
1/2 cup creamy salad dressing (recommended: blue cheese, asiago caesar, or plain mayo)
2 TBS fresh chives

Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Toss the ciabatta in 1 TBS olive oil. Place the bread cubes in a single layer and toast them in the oven until browned (approximately 7 minutes). Remove from oven and let cool. After bread is cooled, place into a large bowl with the rest of the ingredients. Season with some salt and pepper.

Serves 4 people (for a side dish).

Naan Bread
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Scant 4 cups white bread flour
1 1/2 tsp salt
2 1/4 tsp active dry yeast
water to mix
1 tsp cumin seeds
1 tsp caraway seeds
olive oil for frying

Put the flour, salt, and yeast into a bowl with enough water to make a soft, but not sloppy dough. Add the seeds, then divide the dough into three pieces. Let rest of 1 hour.

Divide the dough once more, making six pieces (you can divide it further if you desire, but optimal is six from this recipe). Using a rolling pin, flatten each piece into a circle and let rest for 5 more minutes.

Heat a skillet to medium heat and add a splash of olive oil. Shallow fry each naan until browned on both sides, then set aside to cool before serving.

Makes six pieces (one per person).

I had a great idea this week. Christmas is my favorite holiday of all, mostly because we have such great traditions that we enjoy and look forward to. Some holidays (like the 4th of July) we end up doing something different all the time so it's just...different. There's something to be said for persistent traditions. That said, we started off the holiday season with our advent calendar (with little chocolate pieces in each day) and reading a story and singing a Christmas song and reading a scripture about the Savior every day until Christmas.  read more »

Oh the wind is lashing lustily
And the trees are thrashing thrustily
And the leaves are rustling gustily
So it's rather safe to say
That it seems that it may turn out to be
It feels that it will undoubtedly
It looks like a rather blustery day, today

-Winnie the Pooh

These are images from a show in the White Gallery. I worked with six other artists in collecting all the receipts from every transaction we made. This show was an analysis of that experiment and the resulting data.  read more »

being so close to the end of the semester always wears us out. even when only one of us is in school.

and being worn down means that we are more vulnerable to sickness. which is what we had most of this week.

sickness aside, we still managed to get out a bit this week. we even stayed out until two in the morning working on a show friday evening, which probably wasn't such a smart idea for our already weak bodies.  read more »

What follows are excerpts from a conversation with Julie Jacobson about my paintings at the beginning of graduate school. Her questions are highlighted and my answers are the responses.  read more »

/** * */ package tutorial;

import edu.byu.phun.*;
import edu.byu.phun.body.*;

/**
* @author Wayne
*
*/
public class TutorialMain {  read more »

The main event of the week was Thanksgiving, of course. It was the first Thanksgiving I've ever had that wasn't with family of some sort. We were invited to the house of one of Wayne's colleagues. Julie had 12 people over, including us, most of the people having some connection to art. I was a little stressed before we got there, because for some reason I felt like the cake I made needed to look really professional, and I thought it just looked messy (the frosting was dripping everywhere...).  read more »

It's raining, it's pouring;
The old man is snoring.
He went to bed,
and bumped his head
And he couldn't get up in the morning.

-somebody clever