Beef & Mushrooms Over Noodles

3 lbs stew meat 8 oz. brown mushrooms 1 bay leaf 3 tbs. each butter and flour 1 1/3 c. beef stock salt and pepper to taste 3 tbs. chopped fresh parsley Finely chop half of the mushrooms and slice the rest. This is so little ones with mushroom apprehension disorder can still enjoy them [...]

Broccoli Beef

I don’t have exact measurements so I hope you’ll forgive me. But this was pretty good, if I do say so myself. Err…make that God needs the credit because He created garlic. 2 small heads broccoli, cut into bite sized pieces 1 medium red bell pepper, cut into strips 3 heaping tbs. (tablespoons!) of garlic, [...]

Blintzes, Phisch-Style

That title isn’t very appetizing, is it?! This is a something we make for breakfast each Christmas morning for the last few years. Because we love them so much, we make them other times of the year, too, particularly when strawberries are in season. They’re not the usual blintzes, though. I once mis-read the recipe [...]

Somebody is Six Today!

Once upon a time, about five years and eight and a half months ago, a little boy lay still in his mommy’s womb. Hey lay so still that his mommy had to visit the labor & delivery department of the hospital to get monitored because she didn’t always feel that “movement each daylight hour” during [...]

Every Day a Lesson

Really, if you can’t smile about it, you have to cry, right? NM is sick with the same bug J had two weeks ago. Oh, yes, the laundry machines are earning their keep! And yes, the bug has managed to get me, too. Hubby? Same as last week…away for work. Leaning, leaning, leaning on the [...]

Kale Chips

Don’t balk. Trust me on this one: they’re good. Ok, well, maybe 2 out of 4 who tried them thought they were good. Since I’m one of the two, I’ll share. All you need: 1 tbs. of olive oil or less if you have a sprayer 1 tbs. of soy sauce 1 bunch of kale [...]

Things Happen

And not necessarily nice things, either! This past week sure fits the definition of “doozy.” Just briefly: ~ Hubby was gone ALL week, Sunday (!) through Saturday afternoon. Work took two weekend days. ~ The puppy was hurt when the play with the boys was a little bit too rough. She cried. She limped. She [...]

Mary Moore Searight Park

Last Sunday, we had to bid goodbye to hubby for a week. He’s still gone, not coming home until tomorrow. But since we had an afternoon open and we’d spent too much time indoors, we braved the cold (to us it was very cold) and went on a hike to a nearby park. Mary Moore [...]

Oh Chili, Our Chili

No photos. There’s no time, sorry, maybe I’ll try for later when it’s actually done. I’m hoping for leftovers. Guesstimating the amounts below because we—hubby and I—just got happy with putting ingredients in the crock pot. 1 very large sweet onion, diced half a head of garlic, finely minced 1 tbs. olive oil PLUS an [...]

Intimacy in Prayer

Written by Francois Fenelon, a mystic* of the Middle Ages: “Tell God all that is in your heart, as one unloads one’s heart, it’s pleasures, and it’s pains, to a dear friend. Tell him your troubles, that he may comfort you; tell him your joys, that he may sober them; tell him your longings, that [...]

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