This is Pi day but I haven’t made a pie — yet

I got some einkorn flour from my subscription flour service and tried to make short bread. It tastes okay but is extremely hard. More like hardtack than a tender cookie... I was going to try a pie crust because everyone says that these ancient grains make lovely pie crust but... let's be honest. Pie crust [...]

Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes

Hail, O Lady, unique gateway through whom the Lord alone has passed! Hail, O you who, through your maternity, have shattered the locks of Hades! Hail, divine access towards salvation for the saved, O you so perfectly worthy of our praise! From the Akathist hymn to Our Lady written by Saint Romanus in Constantinople around [...]