When I was little my mom made applesauce out of Granny Smith apples. She occasionally made pie, probably also Granny Smith, but I was ignorant and didn’t like apple pie so I didn’t pay attention. Cherry pie was a different story and I lobbied hard for it. I also suspect that no-one was too worried [...]
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The Feast of All Saints and the Commemoration of All Souls
... A nice distinction found in the Father Lasance missal I inherited from my mother. Today, November 1, is the Feast of All Saints and I hope everyone has something festive. One of the priests around here always says, be sure to have some ice cream on a feast day. And tomorrow is the Commemoration [...]
The baked beans were great!
I mentioned a three bean/baked bean recipe last Friday**, and can now report that I tried a version of it, using canned butter beans and navy beans as the second and third beans. I like the spices that I actually used, to wit, bacon, dry mustard, BBQ sauce (the recipe uses ketchup), brown sugar, cider [...]
Saturday night in New England
Baked Beans and Brown Bread It’s Friday and I’m thinking about food. Many years ago when my family went to New England for summer vacations, we would have baked beans, and brown bread out of a can, for Saturday night dinner. I used to wonder why this wasn’t the Friday night meal since I didn’t [...]
Windy times and another Catholic scientist
Last Monday I was sitting at the kitchen table writing away, when I happened to look up and saw the top of a tree moving at high speed from the left of the window to the right. For a shocked moment I wondered if I was seeing a tree fall. As the tree flipped to [...]
