The weekly “little of this, little of that” feature at Like Mother, Like Daughter! Yesterday morning the temperature dropped considerably (we’ve had some summer-like weather here the past week or so… leading to my discovery of just how quickly this pregnant mama’s feet can swell!), so I took advantage of the opportunity to turn on… Read More »
Simple swirly bread. Or, it’s okay to feed your kids during Lent.
Kids get hungry (well, to be honest, Moms get very hungry). You can feed them even if it’s Lent. I say this because I think that a convert, especially, or any person newly awakened to the zeal of living the liturgical year without benefit of the collected wisdom of the village, so to speak, can… Read More »
A few little things to get ready for the Easter Triduum.
{Recipe — sort of — at the end…} What with lots of wedding sewing, gardening, and general necessary housekeeping, I don’t quite have it in me to give you the true, thorough Holy Week rundown. It’s kind of like the Thanksgiving prep (with way more holiness thrown in I’ll grant you) so I don’t… Read More »
Making ready.
Today I am… … Baking bread to be ready for when I won’t have time to bake, but will be feeding lots of large, bread-eating people. Today it was spent-grain bread. Already in the freezer: Italian bread (3 loaves) and sandwich bread (2 loaves) and rolls (30). Every day I make some… But we still… Read More »
Salade Nicoise, a family favorite.
It is so very amazingly hot here — but still no AC chez nous, so don’t start snickering about how I wimped out in July, because I didn’t, partially because I live in a reasonable state, weather-wise if not in any other way, and not always the weather, either, now that I remember… Read More »